“Not in Our Name”: Opposition to US war escalation with Russia

A group of US intellectuals – journalists, political advisers, and scholars –are initial signers of an open letter to President Joe Biden (see full text below), pleading with him to reject policies which lead to an “intensification of conflict with Russia” and which “could lead to the deaths of millions of innocent people.” The petition has 625 signatories as of 20 May 2022.

Dear Mr. President,
The undersigned strongly and unambiguously express their opposition to your policy with regard to Ukraine. Your strategy is edging the world closer and closer to a nuclear war with Russia, and to another world war. Recently, you requested Congress for even more funds to be sent Ukraine in order to help them buy more weapons for the military conflict with Russia. “So we need to contribute arms, funding, ammunition … so that they continue what they are doing,” you said on April 28 when asking for some more $33 billion in taxpayer funds to support Ukraine. “Robust military assistance” for Ukraine is your expression. Reuters reported that “President Joe Biden asked Congress for $33 billion to support Ukraine” and called it “a dramatic escalation of U.S. funding for the war with Russia.” At the same time, the U.S.-led NATO April 27 meeting in Ramstein, Germany urged NATO members to provide more military support to Ukraine, with Germany promising to send 50 self propelled Cheetah anti-aircraft weapons. We reject your heightened escalation of this conflict as dangerous and a provocation.
  The response from Russia? Just days before Biden’s appeal to Congress, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov responded to the increased U.S. military support of Ukraine by saying there was a “serious” risk of nuclear war over the conflict. “It’s real. It shouldn’t be underestimated,” he stated. 
  Do we want to risk a nuclear war with Russia over a regional conflict in Eastern Europe?
  The independent journalist Glenn Greenwald just recently stated, “Whatever your views on the moral dimensions of this war, it's hard to deny this is the most dangerous moment in US foreign policy in two decades. Every week, US/NATO involvement in the war intensifies, as Russia explicitly warns of nuclear war. For what?”
  We hereby declare that your escalation of this conflict as the President of the United States has not been done in our name.
  Nor did you act in our name when you, as Vice-President of the United States, were involved in the 2014 coup in Ukraine that toppled the officially elected leadership of Ukraine. At that time, a telephone conversation of your collaborator Victoria Nuland (Assistant Secretary of State under President Barak Obama) revealed how she discussed which leaders should be placed into the new government in Ukraine. The transcript of that conversation also exposed your own direct involvement in this interference with a foreign nation state. This intrusion into the internal affairs of a sovereign nation was not done in our name, either.
  You designated this same official, Victoria Nuland, now as the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. In that position, she has recently had to admit that Ukraine does have bio labs and that the U.S. is involved in them and is worried what Russia would do with its dangerous content should they get a hold of it. “Ukraine has biological research facilities which in fact we are now quite concerned Russian troops may be seeking to gain control of,” Nuland said. “So we are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach.” Some of those very same Ukraine bio labs are ones that your own son, Hunter Biden, only months after the U.S.-led political coup in Ukraine in 2014, invested money by way of the U.S. Company Metabiota which is working with the Department of Defense. Additional evidence has been recently unearthed, effectively proving the U.S.'s involvement in Ukrainian bio labs.
  This strange and troubling U.S. involvement in bio labs at the border of Russia – with direct involvement of your own family –  is not done in our name, either.
  And let us also remind you that the United States does not have a good moral standing when it comes to condemning unjust wars of aggression. Recent U.S. history demonstrates a pattern of multiple military invasions of sovereign states – or military and tactical support for others to do so – most prominently the unjust 2003 invasion of Iraq with hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties, but also in Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria.
  At this dangerous moment in history, the U.S. must exert its power to become a force for just peace, urging Russia and Ukraine to come to the negotiation table in order to agree on compromises that would enable and ensure peace in the region.
  The U.S. should not engage in a policy of intensification of conflict with Russia that could lead to the deaths of millions of innocent people. There are grave consequences of cumulative provocations.
  Not in our name, Mr. President.

First Signatories

Dr Chuck Baldwin, Pastor, Author, Columnist, Radio Talk Show Host, Presidential Nominee; Donna F. Bethell, Esq.; Walter E. Block, Ph.D.; Harold E. Wirth, Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics Loyola University New Orleans; Dr. Peter Chojnowski, philosopher and director of Sister Lucy Truth ; Patrick Delaney, journalist; Matt Gaspers, Managing Editor, Catholic Family News; The Most Reverend Bishop René Gracida; Carrie Gress and Noelle Mering, TheologyofHome.com, Fellows, Ethics & Public Policy Center; Scholars, Institute for Human Ecology, CUA; Dr Robert Hickson, (USA ret.), retired professor of literature and military history; Dr Maike Hickson, journalist; Steve Jalsevac, Co-Founder of LifeSiteNews.com; Jim Jatras, retired former U.S. diplomat, GOP Senate foreign policy adviser; Jason Scott Jones, movie producer, founder of the Vulnerable People Project, host of the Jason Jones Show; Dr. Clifford A. Kiracofe; Jack Maxey, journalist and political analyst; Brian M. McCall, Editor-in-Chief, Catholic Family News; Eugene G. McGuirk, BA, MA, MBA, Deacon and educator; Eric Metaxas; Hon. Andrew P. Napolitano, former jurist, constitutional scholar, and legal commentator; Pater David Nix, Diocesan hermit; Jack Posobiec, Editor, Human Events; Eric Sammons, Editor-in-Chief, Crisis Magazine; Dr Michael Sirilla, Professor of Theology, Franciscan University of Steubenville; Beverly Stevens, REGINA Magazine; Frank Walker, Editor Canon212.com; John-Henry Westen, co-founder and editor-in-chief of LifeSiteNews.com; Sir Owen Samuel Whitman, GCS, political commentary and consultant; Michael Yon, War Correspondent/author; Elizabeth Yore, Esq., Founder, YoreChildren; John Zmirak, Ph.D., Senior Editor, The Stream

To sign the petition:

https://www.change.org/p/not-in-our-name-opposition-to-u-s-war-escalation-with-russia?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=custom_url&recruited_by_id=fe98e4a0-b266-11e6-a35e-f1e0a03ea9b0