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History of U.S. Cuba Relations and the Possibility of Full-Scale War

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by Peter Bohmer, May 7, 2026

At Economics for Everyone Forum, “Stop U.S. Aggression on Iran and Cuba, Olympia, WA

History of U.S.-Cuba Turmoil and Possibility of a Full-Scale War!

Photo at  Forum, May 7th, Economics for Everyone

By Peter Bohmer, May 7, 2026

Personal note: I have studied the Cuban revolution and taught about and been in solidarity with Cuba since the late 1960’s. I have visited five times including living there with my family for four months and teaching Cuban faculty at the University of Havana in 2001. I took a class from The Evergreen State College to Cuba for eight weeks in 2004, traveling through the entire island, and vising more recently. I keep in touch with a few friends there. Peter

The Trump administration is serious about overthrowing the Cuban government and its political economic structure. What can be done to stop it?

On Mayday, 2026, Trump signed an executive order authorizing additional sanctions on financial institutions and other corporations from around the world trading or investing in Cuba. Trump said, “We will be taking it (Cuba) over almost immediately.” In response, the Cuba President said, “No aggressor, no matter how powerful will find surrender in Cuba.”  If Trump were to attack the country, Miguel Diaz-Canel said, “he will find a people determined to defend sovereignty and independence in every inch of our country”.

This follows the Trump administration’s April 14th directive to the Pentagon to “ramp up preparations for possible military action against Cuba.” Trump told reporters the day before that “we may stop by Cuba after we’ve finished with this” (this referring to war against Iran). This followed a January 29th Executive Order calling Cuba “an unusual and extraordinary threat” to US national security”.  As part of this, Trump announced a blockade of oil to Cuba and stiff tariffs for any country delivering oil to Cuba with US warships around it. The two main suppliers had been Mexico and Venezuela. They and other nations have stopped shipping oil to Cuba except one big shipment by Russia in late March of this year.

The U.S., while threatening an invasion and assassination of its leaders and/or bombing of Cuba is already conducting an act of war by this blockade. This is both a continuation of the 66-year-old U.S embargo of Cuba and a further tightening and escalation. There is an increased U.S. military presence in the Caribbean, and the U.S. continues to have a naval base at Guantanamo on Cuban soil.

The lack of Cuban access to oil is causing increased blackouts and shortages of food and serious declines in the health care system. The Cuba health care system until recently provided universal and quality health care to the entire population. The objective of the Trump administration is to cause so much hardship and suffering of the Cuban people that they revolt against their government and cause its collapse. This is Trumpism’s preferred strategy. It is inhumane, illegal and immoral. It probably won’t succeed as the Cuban state retains legitimacy especially against the U.S. and there is limited opposition within the Cuban military and the Communist Party against the leadership. Still, an actual military attack by the U.S.  is a possibly. Let us not let it happen!

The Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista on January 1, 1959. President Eisenhower in spring, 1960 signed an order calling for the overthrow of the Cuban government which has been the policy of the U.S. for most of the last 66 years.

                                                     Why?

From the 1960’s through the 1980’s, the threat of Cuba to the U.S. ruling class was the threat of a good example. The threat of a good example means that Cuba meeting the needs of its people would inspire anti-capitalist revolutions in the global south, what used to be called the Third World. These societal transformations would reduce or end the possibility of U.S. corporations exploiting the labor and profiting from the minerals and food production of these countries. Supporting corporate capital is a major determinant of U.S. foreign and military policy. In the early 1960’s Cuba did a major land reform and nationalized U.S. owned property such as the sugar mills, mines and hotels. Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution were popular throughout the Americas for standing up to the United States, for their universal health and educational system, their internationalism and for their support of revolutionary movements.

The Soviet Union had provided oil at low prices and bought Cuban sugar at above the world market price. This contributed to a slow improvement in access to consumer goods with a major decline in poverty from the 1960’s to the late 1980’s. Life expectancy and infant mortality reached global north levels, basic needs were met and access to education increased substantially, especially for women and in rural areas. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990-1991, Cuba has had serious economic problems. A major cause has been their inability to export sufficiently to cover their import needs, i.e., a continuing deficit in the balance of payments. Beginning in the 1990’s, tourism became a major earner of foreign exchange, but tourism declined substantially during the Covid epidemic and has not recovered. Cuba overinvested in tourism infrastructure. Venezuela, after the victory of Hugo Chavez as President of Venezuela in 1998 exchanged their oil for Cuban doctors and medicine and advisers in agriculture and security. This partially replaced Soviet support.

The U.S. had claimed falsely that Cuba was a Soviet outpost 90 miles from Miami and therefore a threat to the U.S. That this was not the reason for U.S. aggression was made clear by the U.S. intensifying its embargo/blockade of Cuba after the Soviet Union no longer existed with the Helms-Burton Act. This act penalized foreign countries trading with Cuba further restricting Cuban access to foreign markets.  There was a loosening of the embargo, including restoring diplomatic relations and permitting some tourism, trade and remittances under President Obama.  Trump, in his first term, reversed this. He further attempted to weaken Cuba’s economy by declaring it a country supporting terrorism which further restricted Cuba’s access to credit and global finance. There has been a large out migration for economic reasons from Cuba.  in the last six years, the population has declined by 1.5 million to 10.9 million people. Infant mortality more than doubled between 2018 and 2025.

The U.S. embargo/sanctions have been the major cause of Cuba’s major economic problems although not the one. Cuba has not developed an economy where the standard of living increases steadily nor sufficient food production. Its development of organic agriculture beginning in the special period in the early 1990’s is impressive but has not ended Cuba’s reliance on food imports. In most sectors of the Cuban economy, productivity growth has been slow. Top-down central planning is a problem and increasing reliance on private markets has not helped. More worker control of enterprises would help as would participatory economic planning.

Although Cuba no longer poses the threat of a good example, its “crime” continues to be its independence from U.S. domination; its refusal to accept U.S. determination of its economy and politics. Trump’s National Security Strategy document of December 2025 makes explicit what has shaped much of US policy beginning with the 1824 Monroe Doctrine, U.S. domination of Latin America. This new document claims the right of the U.S. to force the economic system of Cuba and other counties to become neoliberal, one that favors private enterprise and the opening of its economy to unrestricted U.S. corporate investment, goods, services and finance. This is being called the Donroe Doctrine, a combination of Donald Trump and the Monroe Doctrine. It is overt imperialism. Accepting this economic counterrevolution has been the demand of the United States in recent negotiations with Cuba. Cuba has rejected this demand and the demand for the replacement of Cuba’s President, Miguel Diaz-Canel.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has made explicit the U.S. commitment to regime change in Cuba. One of the Trump administration’s motives in invading Venezuela on January 3, 2026, was as a step towards the attack on Cuba and to cut off Cuba’s oil supply from Venezuela. The U.S. military met little overt resistance in this immoral and illegal brief invasion that included the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores and killing 130 people.

                                    Cuba Today: Crisis and Support

A major problem of Cuba is earning enough foreign exchange to purchase oil as it only produces one third of its energy needs. The lack of energy is causing continual electricity blackouts which causes further reductions in tourism, reduced ability to do surgeries, reduced hours of hospital and schools, lower production, reduced water quality, decreased food production and increased spoilage. Gasoline is selling at $40 a gallon. Cuba is responding by major increases in renewable energy, receiving increased numbers of solar panels and batteries both as gifts from China and buying others.  Solar energy now produces ¼ of Cuba’s energy needs and growing rapidly but is not a short-run solution. 

Cuba has earned foreign exchange and provided high quality health care to people in the global south by sending Cuban doctors and nurses, teaching foreign medical student and setting up clinics. The U.S.  has put pressure, especially in the Americas, for countries to end these agreements and expel Cuban doctors. Nine countries, mainly in Central America and the Caribbean, have bowed to these pressures. This increases Cuba’s balance of payments crisis. Mexico and Brazil reiterated their continued support for Cuban doctors as an important part of their health care system.

In Cuba’s struggle against the United States, Cuba has support from most governments around the world and their people.  The latest vote in the UN against the US embargo of Cuba was 165 to 7. This was the 33rd consecutive year condemning the U.S. Mexico has recently sent over 800 tons of aid, mainly food and medical equipment.  The leaders of Spain, Brazil and Mexico recently met and pledged substantial humanitarian aid and made a joint statement demanding respect for Cuban sovereignty and criticized Donald Trump’s threats “to take or invade Cuba.” A recent U.S. Senate vote to restrict Trump from military action against Cuba lost by only four votes, 51 to 47.  The resolution included in its definition of military action, the oil blockade. On May 2nd, 800 delegates from 36 countries met in Havana and denounced the tightening of the US embargo, the US threats and called for global mobilization against the embargo.  This support and solidarity are important but neither sufficient to significantly reduce the economic hardships facing the Cuban people nor stop the U.S. commitment to overthrow the Cuban government.

Even though support by the Cuban people for the Communist Paty and its leadership has declined, especially among younger people, there is little support for a U.S. led overthrow or for a government led by right wing Cuban exiles. Unlike Venezuela, there are not leaders in the Communist Party or in the Cuban military, which is powerful, militarily and economically, who are likely to support an overthrow of the current leadership and structure. The U.S. may kidnap or assassinate Cuban leaders, a war crime, but that is unlikely to lead to a U.S. puppet. A U.S. invasion and bombing would create further economic misery and deaths but would be met by mass resistance by the military and population. The U.S. inability for a quick military victory in Iran may make the Trump administration reluctant to directly attack Cuba although it is a possibility.

During the Spanish Civil War in the 1930’s, brigades from over 50 countries went to support the Spanish Republic and the Spanish left against the fascists. In the U.S., almost 3000 joined the Abraham Lincoln brigade. They didn’t stop Franco’s victory in Spain but raised global awareness of the fascist threat to the world. Such solidarity is needed again for Cuba. Challenging the Israeli and U.S. military although not using arms are the flotillas such as the Global Sumud flotilla that have courageously sailed towards Gaza and the recent flotilla bringing supplies to Cuba.

Solidarity with Cuba means with their government and people and organizations. In Iran we should do what we can to stop the US and Israeli war on Iran and support the Iranian people but not the Iranian government because of its brutal repression. This is different from Cuba. Here we should not only oppose U.S. aggression against Cuba and the Cuban people but critically support the Cuban government led by the Cuban Communist Party. Their history both domestically and internationally merits solidarity. There continues to be a commitment to provide a social safety net to the entire population despite the scarcity of goods and energy.

                                                            What Can We Do!

As mentioned, Cuba was dealing with an economic crisis even before the tightening of the embargo this January. The threatening of high tariffs on countries selling oil to Cuba is new.  The ongoing embargo of Cuba for 66 years has been a bipartisan strategy. An important demand that is necessary for the recuperation of the Cuban Economy is to end all aspects of the U.S. sanctions/embargo/blockade —no restrictions on trade, on credit and financial flows, on tourism and for diplomatic relations with Cuba; i.e., respect for Cuban sovereignty.  Also, no sanctions on other nations for normal relations with Cuba! The U.S. owes huge reparations to Cuba for its embargo and attacks on Cuba.  A UN report in 2023 estimated trillions of dollars in damages to the Cuban economy by the U.S. embargo since 1960, taking inflation into account. Other estimates put the cost at one trillion dollars or more. End the Embargo!

 Like the majority opposition here to the U.S.-Israeli War against Iran, our task is to turn passive opposition against war with Cuba into active opposition. A poll by YouGov, released yesterday, May 6th,  finds 64 percent of Americans oppose the US going to war against Cuba, while 15 percent support it and 21 percent are not sure. We need a larger and more powerful anti-war movement. locally and nationally, that opposes U.S. attacks on Iran and Cuba, on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean, stops continuing threats against and control of Venezuela and other nations, and other forms of U.S. interference. This needed anti-war movement should also actively oppose militarism and nuclear war and organize and mobilize against the continuing U.S. military aid and support of Israel for its genocidal war on Gaza, its illegal occupation of the West Bank and annexation of East Jerusalem and against Israel’s occupation and war against Lebanon, aided by U.S. weapons. One path forward could be building on the existing infrastructure of the ongoing Palestine solidarity movement in the U.S. and broadening it. While continuing to oppose all aid to Israel and solidarity with Palestine, it could also become a broader anti-war movement. This is necessary although not yet emerging on and off college campuses. Another possibility would be building a justice and no war mass organization and/or coalition that furthered equity and justice both at home and abroad.

Also urgent is that in all our daily lives in our communities, family, workplaces, and unions, churches, schools and organizations, political parties and activism, we raise the demand of no attack on Cuba, and the ending of all aspects of the embargo. This can include conversations, resolutions, lobbying Congress and making Cuban solidarity a part of forums, rallies, demonstrations, direct action, etc. It means connecting opposition to the war on Cuba to issues such as immigrant and economic justice in the U.S. Ending the blockade against Cuba will reduce Cuban migration to the U.S. although we should support their right to migrate.

Stopping U.S. attacks on Cuba is difficult but possible. Opposition by other countries and global solidarity is necessary. Let us also in our actions and words build a strong enough opposition here that those in power whether Democrat or Republican will understand it is in their interest to accept Cuban sovereignty and end all aspects of the attacks on Cuba.

Si Se Puede!

 

A Jewish Anti-Zionist Perspective, updated, October 29, 2023

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The Jewish Case for Palestine:

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By Peter Bohmer, Economics for Everyone

Given at “A Conversation on Gaza-Israel War”, program at the Olympia Center,

October 17, 2023, revised 10/29/2023

I want to share how my background causes me to support the Palestinian struggle against the Israeli occupation of all of Palestine including Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Since 1967, I have actively opposed the U.S. military aid and ideological support for Israel, and in solidarity with Palestine.

I mourn the deaths of 9500 people murdered in southern Israel and Gaza over the last three weeks (as of October 29th) over 1400 in Israel, mainly Israeli civilians by Hamas and over 8000 Palestinians in Gaza and growing numbers in the West Bank by the Israeli military, the IDF. Let us take a moment to reflect on this death of human life and the injuries of many more.

My parents and grandparents were Jewish from Central Europe, my parents grew up in Vienna, Austria. The German military and Nazis were welcomed by much of the Austrian population when they invaded in spring 1938. Germany immediately annexed Austria. My dad was 22 when he was incarcerated in Vienna by the Austrian Nazis and frequently  beaten. According to Nazi records, he was imprisoned for being “political” and Jewish.  He was released after four months. My parents escaped a few days later to France.

They wanted to leave Europe because they expected an imminent Nazi invasion of France. They were denied visas to Australia and Canada because of these countries’ antisemitic immigration policies. After a few rejections, my parents were admitted to the U.S. in June 1939. My grandfather and at least four other relatives were gassed to death in concentration camps. 

Antisemitism, as anti-Jewishness, has been prevalent all over Europe and to a lesser but real extent in the U.S.  It continues today although less systemic. Many Jewish people as a response have seen their liberation and fair treatment as integrally connected with the liberation of all people, e.g., Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, the many socialist Jews, in the civil rights and anti-apartheid movement and in the Palestine Solidarity movement.

Because of this history of oppression, I grew up believing Jewish people would not oppress others. I was naïve. A majority of Jewish people in Israel and around the world support a Jewish dominated state.  A Jewish state where Palestinians are systematically displaced from their land and are treated less than equal within the Israeli state formed in 1948; and less than human on the land Israel seized in 1967: the West Bank Gaza, and East Jerusalem. When you take someone’s land or enslave them, as15 what also happened in the U.S. there is a strong tendency for the dominant group to justify it.

On Facebook recently and for years, I have been accused by individuals of being antisemitic. An earlier version of this talk given on October 17th in Olympia, Washington  was censored and removed by Facebook administrators for being inappropriate. I am anti-Zionist which is fundamentally different from being ani-Jewish. The Netanyahu led Israeli government, many leaders of the Republican and Democratic Party and some Jewish groups in the U.S. try to undermine criticisms of Israel and support for Palestinian self-determination and justice by calling criticism of Israel, antisemitic.

Some criticisms of Israel are motivated by hatred of Jews, e.g., white supremacist groups in the US, and we should never ally with them in opposing the Israeli occupation.Zionism means a Jewish State where the laws, educational system and major institutions favor Jewish people, and that Palestinians are second class citizens or non-citizens.

Zionism also means the right of return for anyone around the world who is Jewish while hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and their millions of descendants who were expelled from Israel’s 1948 created borders are not allowed to return. Most of the population of Gaza are Palestinians forced out of Israel in 1948 and their children and grandchildren. A Jewish dominated State where Palestinians have lived for millennia is Jewish supremacy.

Moreover, the Israel government has supported many anti-Jewish and antisemitic governments such as Hungarian leader, Viktor Orban in Hungary, and provided arms and military training to the military dictatorships in Guatemala and Argentina in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Israel was furthering US foreign policy in these actions, one important reason why the U.S. has been such a supporter of Israel. While opposing antisemitism, don’t allow Zionists to define you as antisemitic. My perspective is similar to Jewish Voice for Peace (jewishvoiceforpeace.org). They have been organizing a series pf powerful demonstrations and sit-ins in, mainly in  D.C., demanding an immediate cease-fire and against U.S. support for the Israeli war.

It is not an exaggeration to call the Israeli occupation, apartheid; and Gaza an open-air prison that has become a concentration camp.  Violence and displacement by Israeli settlers and the IDF of Palestinians have also increased in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, as has the blockade of Gaza. Groups such as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the U.N. Secretary General, and an Israeli human rights group, B’Tselem use these terms although we seldom find them in the mainstream media or by U.S. politicians.

This does not justify the killing of Israeli civilians in southern Israel but let us understand its causes did not begin with what happened on Saturday, October 7th but with British colonialism and the 1948 Nakba (forced removal of Palestinians). Israeli’s revenge, mass murder, starvation and collective punishment of Palestinians including the16 year blockade of Gaza is a war crime that is wrong and will not bring security to Jews.

All Israeli governments, Labor, Likud, Netanyahu, and the recent mass Israeli social movement that has opposed the Netanyahu government’s increasing authoritarianism  towards the Jewish population, are rejectionist. This means they do not accept Palestinians as equals, neither in the past nor present.

Whether it’s one state or a real independent two state solution, it must center economic and political justice and equality for all, especially but not limited to Palestinians. This includes the right of Palestinians to return to inside the 1948 borders that Israel imposed.

Since 1967, the U.S. has unconditionally supported the illegal, immoral occupation of the West Bank, the annexation of East Jerusalem, and made more than a dozen vetoes in the UN security council of resolutions critical of Israel. The U.S. just vetoed a UN resolution calling for a cease fire and negotiations. The U.S. provides $3.8 billion dollars of military aid annually and has committed to continue this through 2029. Biden just proposed an additional $14 billion of military aid to Israel, and it is sure to be passed by Congress.

Rather than supporting a cease fire, negotiations and opposing the massive Israeli bombing and invasion of Gaza, the Biden administration is sending Israel additional weapons and military advisers. The U.S, has sent since October 7th, two aircraft carriers and 2000 marines to the Middle East in support of Israel, and has given Israel carte blanche to invade Gaza and commit the murders of tens of thousands and further ethnic cleansing.  

The more we actively support the end of the Israeli occupation and U.S. support for Israel, the more we have the right to criticize the Hamas killings and taking of more than 200 hostages. I differ from the few groups and individuals who justify the October 7th murder of Israeli civilians by the Hamas led attack. They claim because the Palestinian struggle is anti-colonial and for self-determination all actions are justified. The killing of Israeli civilians, especially those and their descendants who fled the Nazi control of Europe is wrong. Many of them were not granted permission to immigrate to Great Britain, the U.S., Canada, Australia and other countries because of antisemitism and had no place else to go but Palestine.  This does not justify the forced displacement of Palestinians but makes their situation somewhat different from other settler colonialists.

I am also critical of those who ignore or even worse, support the mass killing by Israel in Gaza, directly by bombing and the ongoing military invasion. But also, indirectly by blocking most food, water, electricity, fuel and medical supplies from getting in. To defend Israel’s increasingly genocidal policies by calling it self-defense is horrendous.

Israel claims a Zionist State is the only security for Jews around the world. Long run security cannot be based on the oppression and domination of another people. People will rise up. Israel is developing formal relations with and recognition by some of the conservative Arab states in the Abraham Accords.  That will not further security in the long run, as the population in Egypt, Morocco, the UAE, etc. strongly support the Palestinian struggle.

The Hamas attack of October 7th shows the limits of this immoral strategy of Israel. Even if Israel destroys Hamas, oppression breeds resistance and Israel will eventually be defeated. Moreover, this security state strategy moves Israelis further to the right.

For moral and political reasons, the security of Jewish people and Palestinian people requires the end of the Israeli occupation, the end of U.S. support for Israel, and justice for all Palestinians.

The goal of a Palestinian socialist organization, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, DFLP, is, “a people’s democratic Palestine, where Arabs and Jews live without discrimination, a state without classes and national oppression, which allows Jews and Arabs to develop their national culture together”.

Let us do what we can in the streets, in letters and by lobbying politicians to oppose U.S. military aid to Israel including the massive, proposed increases and for ending U.S. support for Israeli aggression. Expose and challenge US corporations like Boeing and Raytheon that have sent billions of dollars of  weapons to Israel, paid for by our taxes. Support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement against Israel.

Educate yourselves, friends, and family about the colonization of Palestine. It is a horrible situation for Palestinians, especially in Gaza and it is our responsibility to do what we can to change U.S. policy so that it is more in line with popular sentiment all over the world including declining U.S. support for the Israeli occupation.  A minimal demand is for an immediate cease fire and an end to the siege of Gaza.

I often hear that Palestine-Israel is too complicated to take a position on, or there is no solution because Israelis and Palestinians are equally victims.  An insightful response in a talk at Evergreen by Khader Hamide, a leading Palestinian activist who the U.S unsuccessfully tried to deport for 20 years: “Palestinians are losing their land, and their lives and Israelis are losing their humanity.”

A common slogan among Jewish people and Israeli leaders is “Never Again”, which they usually restrict to Jewish people. The holocaust against Jewish people is horrendous but so is the holocaust against African people, Native and indigenous people, and others. Let us mean by “Never Again” for All People. That is both the moral and strategic position.

Si Se Puede!

Thank You!

No War with Russia over the Ukraine: Diplomacy Not War

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Here is the leaflet we are handing out as part of the national day of action against U.S. escalation. Our rally is Saturday, February 5th from Noon to 1 by the State Capital, on the  street , Capital Way (just south of Union) in Olympia, WA. Join us!

NO WAR WITH RUSSIA OVER UKRAINE!

We are on the brink of a massive war between the US and Russia – two nuclear-armed states.
The time to speak out is NOW!
We are here on February 5, 2022 to demand an end to the drumbeat of war with Russia over Ukraine! President Biden has just sent 3000 US troops to countries on the border with Ukraine and near Russia.

 

Let us do what we can to stop the growing escalation and threat of a war on Ukrainian soil and possibly beyond, between Russia and the U.S.  The Ukrainian people would pay a horrible price. The dangerous escalation at the Russian/Ukrainian border standoff intensifies.  Biden is also considering sending more warships and aircraft and has already delivered more “lethal aid” to Ukraine.  The $500 million Congress is set to pass through a fast-track vote could and should be used on communities, climate and needs at home. The Pentagon has said that there is the possibility of sending as many as 50,000 troops!
We do not support the Russian massing of troops on the Ukrainian border nor their annexing by Russia of Crimea in 2014.  However, not mentioned by the Biden administration nor most of the U.S. media, is the failure of the U.S. government to live up to its promise made in 1990 by then-Secretary of State James Baker to Russian leader, Gorbachev, that NATO would expand not “one inch to the East” and that the Ukraine would not become a part of NATO.  Since 1999, NATO has expanded to include numerous countries, including some that border Russia. Rather than dismissing out of hand the Russian government’s current insistence on a written guarantee that Ukraine will not become part of NATO, the U.S. government should agree to a long-term moratorium on any NATO expansion. Russia and its President Putin have offered to deescalate the situation if Ukraine remains a neutral country and does not become part of the U.S. led and dominated military alliance, NATO.

 

We live in the United States, so our main responsibility is challenging the U.S. military buildup. Moreover, by organizing in the U.S. against U.S. military escalation and threats to go to war with Russia, and instead, in favor of diplomatic solutions, we are encouraging groups in the Ukraine and Russia who support peace and who are against the growing militarization of the situation. It will increase their credibility and influence. The U.S.  military escalation and sending of troops to Poland and Romania lead to justification in Russia for their military escalation.

 

The only solutions are diplomatic ones. Let us end the forever wars of the United States, the U.S military buildup, and the continued growth of military spending. Let us stop the danger of a major war between two nuclear powers.

 

Join this rally to demand: DIPLOMACY, NOT WAR;

WAR IS NOT GREEN; NO US/NATO AGGRESSION.

NO MORE WARS FOR CORPORATE PROFIT; $$ FOR HUMAN NEEDS, NOT WAR!

This is a peaceful, nonviolent event.  Masks & distancing, please.

 

This rally coincides with activities around the country, led by Code Pink to resist the normalization of war and demand that not a single bullet or gun be sent to Ukraine, and no troops be sent to Europe.                Diplomacy not war!

 

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