About the Need for Peace on Earth, including Ukraine and Russia.

From Grok:

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky provided an official update in early February 2025, stating that 45,100 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed since Russia’s full-scale invasion began on February 24, 2022.

The number of dead Ukrainians is now comparable to the number of Americans killed in Vietnam, in a country of about 40 million people (many of them children and elderly). An entire generation of Ukrainian men has already been decimated.

Meanwhile, many of the people I know on the Left look at me with glazed over eyes when I talk about the need for PEACE. They no longer appreciate the need for peace. They used to understand this before the Democratic party inverted its positions on many important values (including censorship). Nor do they want to hear anything about the history of the corrupt involvement of the U.S. in Ukraine since at least 2014. They used to understand that our north star should be peace.

Trump's bold move today, including his tough talk with President Zelenskyy (see video below), will make no sense to many Democrats, but I don't blame many of them. They have been subjected to systematic censorship for years, much of it from the legacy media that they over-trust and much of it financed by the U.S. government (here are hundreds of examples). Neocons have infested our government for years--most recently Biden's cabinet (e.g. Victoria Nuland and Anthony Blinken, architects of the Iraq war).

I hope that someday soon Democrats can once again figure out that murder, mayhem and destruction of cities on a mass scale is actually a bad thing and that such carnage should be avoided at all costs. We are not playing the game of Risk. We are talking about real human lives.

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Andrew Sullivan on Ukraine

Andrew Sullivan:

There was something truly surreal about President Biden suddenly changing course and agreeing to give Ukraine advanced long-range missiles to attack deep inside Russian territory in the last two months of his administration. There was no speech to the nation; no debate in the Senate; just a quiet demonstration of unilateral presidential fuck-you power. You know: the kind we’ve long worried about with Donald Trump. The missiles up the ante considerably against a nuclear power for a simple reason. As Putin noted:

[E]xperts are well aware, and the Russian side has repeatedly emphasized this, that it is it is impossible to use such weapons without the direct involvement of military specialists of the countries producing such weapons ... We consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against the military facilities of those countries that allow to use their weapons against our facilities. And in case of escalation of aggressive actions we will respond also decisively and mirrored.'

There was a time when a NATO missile strike on Russian territory, followed by a Russian threat to attack NATO “military facilities” in response, would have caused the world to stop dead, paralyzed by the fear of nuclear armageddon. Yet here we are, blithely preoccupied by Pete Hegseth’s sexual exploits and Congressional bathrooms.

Others are not so sanguine. “I believe that in 2024 we can absolutely believe that the Third World War has begun,” Ukraine’s former military chief, Valery Zaluzhny, warned yesterday, noting both the new involvement of NATO troops and the involvement of North Korea. Our own president, having brought us much closer to the brink as a lame duck, seemed unconcerned. He was last seen wandering off-stage in the vague direction of the Brazilian rainforest. Not optimal.

The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, was even punchier, and pledged to allow Ukraine to use British long-range missiles as well: “We need to double down. We need to make sure Ukraine has what is necessary for as long as necessary, because we cannot allow Putin to win this war.” When asked if he was prepared to risk the UK forces or Ukraine or a third country like Poland being nuked in response, as Putin has threatened, Starmer simply ignored the question. ...

The brinksmanship over Ukraine will set a precedent for brinksmanship over Taiwan. What Putin and Biden have done — by allowing this conflict to persist, despite no chance of a conventional military victory for either side — is to render the world far less stable and far more dangerous than at any time since the end of the Cold War. Quite a legacy for a president we were assured was a foreign-policy master.

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Details on substantial the CIA Interference in Ukraine for many years.

Mike Benz Explains: Mike Benz' discussion leads up to the recent NYT story about the CIA involvement in Ukraine, which intentionally ignores some of the important facts.

As stated by Scheer Post:

The New York Times recently ran a story called "The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin." Patrick Lawrence writes that these "secrets" only contained what the CIA "wanted and did not want disclosed," and were "effectively authorized" by the agency.

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Vivek Ramaswamy Pulls Back the Curtain to Expose Nikki Haley’s Warmongering and Corruption

Vivek Ramaswamy harpooned Neocon Nikki Haley who, along with fellow neocon Joe Biden, now wants to spill American blood in the Ukraine, where we blew up an early peace settlement, leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians. I could not hold either of them in lower respect as a result of their warmongering and war-machine corruption.

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