By Paul Shannon
This is serious, and now it’s personal. Now that Biden is putting my life (and all of our lives) at stake makes this man a clear and present danger to me.
President Biden has just surpassed Donald Trump in becoming the craziest and most dangerous man in the United States. His decision to allow US or other NATO experts to help guide long-range missiles into targets deep in Russia is probably the most reckless decision of any US president in history. President Putin of Russia has made it clear that launching such missiles deep into Russian territory places the US into a state of war with Russia and that Russia will take strong measures in response, including possibly orchestrating military attacks on the US and NATO targets anywhere in the world. It is for these reasons that Biden up to now has ruled such escalatory actions, stating on several occasions that they would lead to World War III.
Let’s be clear. Biden has now taken a step that he knows could very well lead to World War III.
In other words, in order to turn Ukraine into a western military bulwark on Russia’s border – the US goal since it was announced in 2008 – Biden is willing to risk major world-wide war which eventually would turn into a catastrophic nuclear war.
Given Russia’s growing successes on the Ukrainian battlefield, hopefully Putin will just decide to absorb such missile attacks inside Russia and not respond in any dramatic way. But the fact that my existence right now depends on the leader of a foreign country whose job it is to protect Russian national security and not mine, infuriates me. We must convince our congressional delegation to oppose this lunacy, to not risk our futures by supporting this disastrous decision.
The time for peace is NOW! We do not want to risk our lives, our children’s lives, our grandchildren’s lives with nuclear brinkmanship between the two most nuclear armed nations, the US and Russia. Diplomacy, Ceasefire, Negotiations is the only way to ensure a future for the next generations.
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Paul Shannon is a Massachusetts Peace Action Board Member and founder of the Raytheon Anti-War Campaign and Ukraine: A Time for Peace Campaign.
