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DESCRIPTION:Join CODEPINK Congress as we educate, activate and mobilize for peace 
 legislation!\n\nWhen Trump was President, he sent Ukraine lethal weapons to 
 stoke a civil war that preceded the Russian invasion of Ukraine. More 
 recently, Trump changed his tune–after half a million soldiers were 
 killed or wounded.\n\nDuring his presidential campaign, he said, 
 “They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And 
 I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours.”\n\nCould 
 he? Well, maybe not in 24 hours but hopefully soon, provided the Biden 
 White House doesn’t first plunge us into WWIII.\n\nLook at recent 
 events.\n\nOn his way out the door, President Biden, on November 17, 
 crossed his own red line to approve of Ukraine’s use of US-supplied 
 ballistic missiles to strike deep inside Russia. In response, Russia 
 revised its nuclear doctrine to lower the threshold on the use of nuclear 
 weapons to consider an attack by a non-nuclear armed state supported by a 
 nuclear-armed power as a joint assault.\n\nTwo days later the Biden White 
 House sent Ukraine anti-personnel mines or cluster bombs outlawed in much 
 of the world. Then on November 21st, Russia fired an experimental ballistic 
 missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead at the Ukrainian city of 
 Dnipro, where a million people reside.\n\nThe real possibility of a nuclear 
 catastrophe lies before our eyes as Russia considers a nuclear-capable 
 US/NATO military base in Poland a potential target.  \n\nThe US government 
 urgently needs to reverse course to promote a ceasefire and diplomatic 
 resolution to Ukraine. Join us to discuss the possibilities and challenges 
 facing the next presidential administration. \n\nFeatured Guests\n\nCol. 
 (ret.) Lawrence Wilkerson served as Secretary of State Colin Powell's Chief 
 of Staff (2002-05), also as Associate Director of the State Department's 
 Policy Planning staff under the directorship of Ambassador Richard N. 
 Haass, and as a member of that staff responsible for East Asia and the 
 Pacific, political-military and legislative affairs (2001-02).\n\nBefore 
 serving at the State Department, Wilkerson served 31 years in the U.S. 
 Army. During that time, he was a member of the faculty of the U.S. Naval 
 War College (1987 to 1989).  Wilkerson retired in 1997 and began work as an 
 advisor to General Powell. He has also taught national security affairs at 
 the George Washington University and is currently working on a book about 
 the first George W. Bush administration.\n\nNicolai Petro is a Senior 
 Washington Fellow at the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy and a Professor of 
 Political Science at the University of Rhode Island, where he previously 
 held the Silvia-Chandley Professorship of Peace Studies and 
 Nonviolence.\n\nHis scholarly awards include two Fulbright awards (one to 
 Russia and one to Ukraine), a Council on Foreign Relations Fellowship, and 
 research awards from the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the National 
 Council for Eurasian and East European Research, the Kennan Institute for 
 Advanced Russian Studies in Washington, D.C., and the Hoover Institution at 
 Stanford University. In 2021 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of 
 Advanced Studies at the University of Bologna, Italy.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/12/01/18871154.php
SUMMARY:Peace in Ukraine-When? Codepink Congress Capitol Calling Party
LOCATION:Zoom\nhttps://www.codepink.org/cpc123
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