An Appeal to Congress
Please read, share, and act
Friends,
I just took part in a team effort to get a message across to Congress.
If we do not help Ukraine now, we lose all the things that Ukrainians have won for all of us these last two years. The world changes in a way that tips the balance to the tyrants and the aggressors. This is laid out in the appeal, published by CNN.
Just in the hours since the appeal was published, its message has become the more urgent. As Congress does nothing, Russia is carrying out comprehensive missile and drone strikes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure. The idea is to make the entire country cease to function.
Imagine what your life would be like if you local power station had just been destroyed by a ballistic missile. Because we are denying Ukraine the systems it needs to defend itself, the missiles and too many drones are getting through. This is one of countless problems that American aid could solve.
Please read the appeal and please share it. Please call your own Congressional representatives. Here is a guide to making those calls. If you want to donate directly to Ukraine’s anti-drone defense, you can do so here.
People of various outlooks and backgrounds chose on their own behalf to join the appeal to Congress — musicians, actors, thinkers, historians, entrepreneurs, diplomats. They represent the broad and diverse spectrum of people, a clear majority, who support Ukraine.
I respect everyone who joined this appeal for choosing to take a clear stand. It's easy to do nothing. But we can all do our little something. And now is very much the time.
Thank you.
TS 11 April
If Russia continues to attack Ukraine with inadequate response from Ukraine because this Congress refuses to do their job the crisis that unfolds is on their hands.
They are preventing the U S from upholding their promised alliance to Ukraine.
All of this because of some twisted traitorous devotion to Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
It’s wrong .
It’s impending disaster.
Their attachment to ridiculous investigations of innocent people has skewed reality for them .
It’s time to get it right and do their damn job.
What a frightening situation. An ambitious man, with little relevant experience, is Speaker of the House. He is under attack by Trump surrogates and he will not act if his speakership is on the line. There is another methodology for getting the Ukraine bill to the House floor. Why has that not happened? There is virtually no press out there about that. Mr. Johnson, we are talking about the life of an entire country and all its people. If the Russians overrun Ukraine, they'll make what happened in Bucha look like a parlor game. We can stop it but only if we act together. If you do the courageous thing and lose your speakership over this, you'll be a hero and you'll go down in history that way. Barry Coburn