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End the US/NATO Proxy War with Russia Statement by the United National Antiwar
Coalition (UNAC) www.UNACpeace.org UNAC calls for an
end to NATO expansion and an end to NATO. NATO is not a defensive
alliance, it is offensive as was shown by its war on Afghanistan, its
surrounding of Russia and in this present US/NATO proxy war with Russian in
Ukraine. Steps towards war In 1991, the US
promised to not move NATO east of Germany. To date it has moved into 14
of these countries. In 2014 the US
helped orchestrate a coup that overthrew the elected government of Victor
Yanukovych, who they felt was too open to good relations with Russia.
That coup banned Yanukovych’s Party, the largest in the country. The
second largest party, the Communist Party, was also outlawed, but extreme
right-wing Nazi movements were welcomed into the government. The first
act of the coup government was to ban the Russian language. Protests against
the coup spung up throughout the country. In Odessa, the protesters were
attacked by pro-Nazi gangs 48 people were killed and hundreds wounded. In
other places, the protests were put down, but in Crimea the people voted to
leave Ukraine and return to Russia, which they had been part of for hundreds of
years prior to the 1950’s. Two sections of the Donbass in Eastern Ukraine
declared their independence from Kiev and formed the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s
Republics. The right-wing and Nazi gangs formed into militias and tried to put down the protests and instill fear to stop opposition to the coup government. They were armed and trained by the US and its NATO allies, integrated into the Ukrainian military and led a war against the independent areas of Donbass. By the beginning of this year, 14,000 people had been killed in that war. (over)
At the beginning of
2022, Ukraine started massing troops on the border of Donbass and increased the
shelling of the independent areas. Draconian sanctions were applied by
the US and other NATO countries to try to bring down the Russian economy. At
the same time Russia recognized the independent republics and when Ukrainian
forces moved into these areas, Russia moved into Ukraine. This conflict is
not between Russia and Ukraine, it is a war between US/NATO and Russia, one in
which they are using Ukraine as a proxy and are prepared to fight to the last
Ukrainian. This US/NATO war is against a major nuclear power. It is
a war that brings us closer to a possible nuclear confrontation that could
destroy us all. NATO does not need to be expanded; it needs to be
abolished. No to NATO! www.UNACpeace.org
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