The invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces a year ago shocked the world, but the roots of the conflict go back years.  The US/NATO and Russia face-off over Ukraine has produced an ongoing disaster that has global ramifications risking, at worst, a nuclear Armageddon, while currently causing shortages of food, fuel and other basics throughout the region. An immediate stop to the supply of arms, a ceasefire, and negotiations based on realistic expectations by all sides could be the multipart plan to bring peace to Ukraine and the European continent.

Furthermore, we need to bring an end to the unrelenting geopolitical brinkmanship and pursuit of global hegemony.  We need to stop spending trillions on weapons of war and on U.S. military forces stationed around the globe.  We need an urgent pivot toward tackling the existential problems of climate change, environmental degradation, and the economic inequality prevailing in populations in our own country and around the world.

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