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DESCRIPTION:Zoom: https://www.codepink.org/cpc218\n\nJoin CODEPINK Congress as we 
 educate, activate and mobilize for peace legislation!\n\nAmid Trump’s war 
 on immigrants, the Department of Public Education, Department of Justice 
 and agencies too numerous to name, the President made one positive move: 
 calling for an end to the war in Ukraine. Trump told reporters he had a 
 “lengthy and highly productive” phone call with Russia’s Vladimir 
 Putin, during which the leaders agreed to “immediately” start 
 negotiations to end the war. \n\nThe same day Trump and Putin spoke by 
 phone, the new US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told America’s European 
 allies, “…we must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine's 
 pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective. Chasing this illusionary goal 
 will only prolong the war and cause more suffering.”\n\nIn remarks before 
 a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at NATO Headquarters in 
 Brussels, Hegseth said Kyiv joining NATO is “unrealistic” and hinted 
 the US would no longer pick up Ukraine’s security tab, which is now at 
 $175 billion. For the Trump White House, Ukraine is Europe’s headache. 
 The new President has other priorities, namely sending ICE into schools, 
 churches and neighborhoods to arrest immigrants, and confronting 
 China.\n\nMeanwhile, Trump says he wants to restart nuclear arms control 
 talks with Russia and China to cut nuclear budgets in half–a statement in 
 a stark departure from Trump’s withdrawal from nuclear arms control 
 treaties in the past.\n\nJoin us as we discuss the outlines of a 
 Putin-Trump-Zelinsky peace deal and the possibility of 
 denuclearization.\n\nFeatured Guests in Conversation:\n\nMedea Benjamin and 
 Nicolas J.S. Davies, co-authors, War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a  
 Senseless Conflict. \n\nMedea is the cofounder of both CODEPINK and the 
 international human rights organization Global Exchange. Medea co-leads 
 CODEPINK’s advocacy team on Capitol Hill, where she meets with lawmakers 
 to push for an end to the US proxy war in Ukraine.\n\nNicolas is an 
 independent journalist, a researcher with CODEPINK and the author of Blood 
 on Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq.\n\nPeter 
 Kuznick is Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies 
 Institute at American University, author of Beyond the Laboratory: 
 Scientists As Political Activists in 1930s America (University of Chicago 
 Press), and co-author with Akira Kimura of Rethinking the Atomic Bombings 
 of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Japanese and American Perspectives. A New York 
 native, he received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1984. He was 
 active in the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War movements and remains 
 active in antiwar and nuclear abolition efforts. In 1995, he founded 
 American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/02/16/18873338.php
SUMMARY:The Phone Call: Ukraine - Codepink Congress Capitol Calling Party
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