Stop the War in the Ukraine! -

Stop the War in the Ukraine!

Since the Ukraine War began, the Biden administration and the U.S. Congress have directed more than $75 billion in assistance to Ukraine, which includes humanitarian, financial, and military support. At the same time, there are ever more cities in the United States—Flint, Baltimore, Jackson, and others—that do not have clean, safe water, while many more are confronted with decaying basic infrastructure.

Leaders in the U.S. are determined to destroy or weaken Russia, even risking the threat of nuclear war in the process. Once again, our money is going into fueling a conflict that is destroying yet another country.

We who do the living and working in the United States bear the costs of war. Yet most of these billions do not wind up in the Ukraine. They winds up in the hands of US corporations that produce arms for a global market, including assault rifles. We are financing our own poverty! We have already paid dearly for this war. When is the government going to invest in people?

Congress cannot find money to ensure housing, healthcare, education, safe roads, and bridges, or even secure food and clean water for everyone in this country. Almost half the people in the US make less than what is needed as inflation drives housing prices beyond what we can bare. Nearly a quarter of active duty enlisted military personnel are experiencing food insecurity, according to the most current Department of Defense statistics. Human lives clearly are not the priority.

The Ukraine War proves yet again that war is a common disease of capitalism. As long as people can make private profit from war, war will be subsidized by the system. We can and will abolish the profit motive that drives this. Human wealth should be used to support human beings and restore our planet, not to increase the crises that we are facing every day. We the People will learn how to build our political power to dig out this virus at the very root.

The League supports the national protests against this horrible war. For schedules, check out https://www.peaceinukraine.org/