“The killing of Russian civilians, including children, at a beach in Crimea by American-supplied missiles has brought us to a point that many of us have long argued is a point which we don’t want to be. Like the multitude of US weapons and munitions provided to Ukraine, these missiles are incapable of winning the war for Ukraine. As has been expected, they have now killed Russian civilians, and we are now forced to await Russia’s response. We are now dependent upon Russia having the wisdom and strategic patience to not escalate the war in a manner that will expand it outside of the Ukrainian-Russian battlespace. Who thinks this is a sustainable or intelligent position to have put ourselves in?

The American people and the world are being led down a path towards World War III with its nuclear apocalyptic likelihood by politicians in the US, UK, France, and other parts of Western Europe who view electoral defeats and political unpopularity as greater risks than a war with Russia. In the US, we have men and women in power who, regardless of the genuine risk of nuclear war, feel it is a risk worth taking to continue their political party’s decade-long partisan narrative and strategy of Russian fear-mongering and the belief that a wartime commander in chief will be re-elected. We are facing a civilization-ending war, one we have lived under the threat of for nearly 80 years, because for those in power war is better politics than making peace.”