What is going on?? And how dangerous is the situation?

Speakers are Bruce Gagnon, Elizabeth Murray, Yuri Sheliazhenkol, Reiner Braun

Events in the U.S./NATO/Ukraine challenge to Russia have been moving at a frenetic pace. Ukraine increased deployment of military troops to the eastern provinces on the border of Donbass. Russia predictably responded by mobilizing a large part of its military to meet the Ukraine threat. In another incident, the US publicized two U.S. warships heading into the Black Sea; Russia warned US/NATO not to send warships and the US finally u-turned them around in the Dardanelles passage, the entryway from the Mediterranean into the Black Sea in response to this warning.

 US/NATO gave “unwavering” support to the Ukrainian government but the Ukrainian president backpedaled on his threat to go to war to regain Crimea. President Biden spoke with President Putin and called for a meeting between the two to reduce tensions. 

What is going on?? And how dangerous is the situation?

Join panelists on the International Peace Bureau and NO to NATO’s May 5 webinar will discuss the dangerous US/NATO/Russia/Ukraine maneuvers.  

Wednesday May 5, 8pm CEST,  2pm CDT, 5pmPDT,  8am Hawaii

Speakers:

• Bruce Gagnon is the Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. Bruce Gagnon has been to Russia and Ukraine several times in the last several of years including leading a delegation of 25 on a study tour of Russia and Crimea in 2019 build people-to-people bridges between our nations rather than an escalating arms race which could bring us WW II. He is a member of Veterans for Peace.
• Elizabeth Murray served as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East in the U.S. National Intelligence Council before retiring after a 27-year career in the U.S. government, where she specialized in Middle Eastern political and media analysis. She is a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)that was founded to challenge the Bush administration’s false claims about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. She travelled to Russia and Crimea in 2016 with Citizen’s Initiative. She serves as Member-In -Residence of Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action in Washington state.
• Yuri Sheliazhenko is the chair of Ukraine chapter of War Resisters International,legal and political scholar, and peace journalist. He has challenged the nationalism and facism that has developed in Ukraine.
• Reiner Braun is the Executive Director of the International Peace Bureau. Braun has been involved in the peace movement since 1982. He is a founding member of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES) and from 2006 until 2017 he was executive director of the German section of the International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms (IALANA).

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