“The U.S. Should Be a Force for Peace”: Nat’l Security Experts Demand U.S. Push to End Ukraine War



More than a dozen former U.S. national security officials have released an open letter calling for a diplomatic end to the Russia-Ukraine war. The call for peace was published as a full-page ad Tuesday in The New York Times and organized by the Eisenhower Media Network. They called the war an “unmitigated disaster” that the U.S. should work to end before it escalates into a nuclear confrontation. We speak with Dennis Fritz, director of the Eisenhower Media Network and a retired command chief master sergeant of the U.S. Air Force. “The majority of my life has been in and out of the Pentagon, and this is probably the most fearful I’ve ever been with a nuclear escalation,” says Fritz.

Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/5/17/dennis_fritz_ukraine_war_diplomacy_letter

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23 thoughts on ““The U.S. Should Be a Force for Peace”: Nat’l Security Experts Demand U.S. Push to End Ukraine War”

  1. Heartbreaking to think of those Displaced Ukrainian, Too much Death & Rubbled Ukraine, they don’tdeserve this❗️💔 . War must stop, its so cruel❗️ To Russian with Love & Prayers❤️🙏🙏🙏

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  2. Do you think the us establishment will pay one second of attention to this ? Biden and his clan have a plan and they will stick to that. It is a scandal and a crime what is happening over there. A conflict that easily could have been avoided by Ukraine and the West. Pure evil they are !

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  3. They sell war here like they sell soap and widgets. The silence here about issues of war and nuclear war is deafening! NATO expansion doesn’t count, F-16s don’t count, proxy war doesn’t count, silence on the streets here doesn’t count…

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  4. How many refugees from Iraq, Libya , Somalia , Vietnam ,Syria, and many other countries America has created?No one was calling for peace then,why now ? What one sows one shall reap.

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  5. I'm sure he's a good man trying to do the right thing but it's a little too late isn't it this should have been going on these kind of conversations long before this War started how are these people running our country why don't you get a cougar and get all the generals together move into that damn White House and haul them out on their f**** asses enough is enough of these people

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  6. USA has no other choice than war. Each US citizen should back its military to prevent other countries from using another currency than USD. The day after USD fall down, US citizen will wake in BRASIL.

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  7. It took me awhile to watch this video because it seems like high irony that our blood-lusting MIC former representatives are saying, We "should be a force for peace." LMAO–the Irony!

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  8. For the last 70yrs, US has been a force for war. It is not interested in peace. US has decided that it can profit from war. So it causes wars all over the world. Nobody should have anything to do these out of control cowboys. US is doing to the world what they did to the indigenous American nation.

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  9. Sadly the level headed minded Americans are so few and getting extinct. The people leading America perceive themselves as superior and the Russians will not be surbodinate to anyone. So Russia will have to fight till the leadership in Washington changes. The current one is just a continuation of Obama and Clinton

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  10. So what are people supposed to do when a larger nation attacks a smaller nation who did nothing to threaten the security of that larger nation? Why are you saying this now why not during more horrific conflicts like the syrian civil war?

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