A Response to John Feffer’s “Peace Activists Should Be Clamoring for Peace on Ukrainian Terms.”
Laura Castro is a writer and former NYC high school teacher. She has worked for many years on issues of economic justice and peace. She is currently a member of the Peace in Ukraine Coalition and Brooklyn for Peace, and a volunteer for Code Pink.rests
“If we really want peace,” said the head of Brazil’s delegation, “we must involve Moscow in some way in this process.” Attendees at Jeddah were asked to get behind a list of demands for Russia resembling those dictated to a vanquished enemy. Meanwhile, the article ignores the appalling carnage that is leaving Ukraine’s armed forces shredded. It disregards that, whatever our own assessment may be, Russia sees this fight as existential—as we might if, say, Mexico decided it wanted to join a Russia-China military alliance that could then put missiles on our border.
Tellingly, the article omits missed chances for peace over many years, including the Minsk talks that former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and later former French President Francois Hollande publicly admitted were intended by the West, not for full implementation but to buy time for Ukraine to arm for war.
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