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We are using the people of Ukraine as pawns and they are suffering because of this proxy war which we can and should stop now. It's that simple. We are moving towards world War for military industrial complex and if course energy companies. The Ukrainian leaders are as corrupt as the Russians. We can't wait for them to decide when the war ends, nor can we afford to bankrupt our country for this senseless battle.

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I wish I could agree because I support Marianne - but when does it end? You cannot simultaneously prepare for war and prevent it. It must end now. Love you but &pummm no more weapons

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Sorry to say, if you continue to support the war, I will have to stop my monthly contributions to your campaign. Yes, the invasion was illegal and wrong but the true cause was the US refusal to consider Russia's legitimate security issues. We are supporting US militarism not the people of Ukraine. Let's get this behind us and begin waging peace. Neither the World or the US can afford where we are now.

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What about Israel? It is an apartheid state that the USA supports.

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I wholeheartedly support your campaign and truly believe you are our only chance to live in a true democracy. I have never seen a more omprehensive policy platform with such details for action! I do believe humanitarian aid should be given to Ukraine now and in the future. You mention our role in provoking Russia but don't mention our government has been planning this intervention for over 30 years. We planned, organized and funded the coup in 2014. In fact, we hear Victoria Nuland name the next president WE chose for Ukraine. I'm relieved that you are addressing the horrible abuses of the MIC, I just feel that these facts need to be held in the light so Americans understand the outright tyranny we have committed not in the name of democracy but rather hegemonic gains. We blew up Nordstream and are now selling OUR liquid gas to Germany! You go girl! (Independent boomer who switched to D to vote for Bernie in the primary. I'm staying only for you.)

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How do we know what the will of the Ukrainian people is? Do they want this war or would they prefer a cease fire and a negotiated settlement? Their voices will never be heard as long as we continue pouring weapons and money in to fuel the death and destruction. Zelensky is not the voice of the people. Certainly not those in Eastern Ukraine and Donbas. Zelensky has his own agenda for fame and fortune as he partners up with Exxon and Halliburton.

"I could see peace instead of this."

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I recently read "The Greatest Evil Is War" by Chris Hedges... a most horrifying read, but very informative about the dark side of the country I live in. I recommend this book to anyone that thinks the United States is on the right side of conflicts we cause or subtly encourage, and then profit from.

To have peace in the world would be a miracle. I'm supporting Marianne (again) because I believe she's uniquely qualified to broker the miracle of a world vision focused on peace.

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We’ve already given 75 BILLION to Ukraine just since January 2022. What’s the end game here? I have no idea about foreign policy but that sounds like an insane amount of money, in a short amount of time, to “help” another country out. Especially when we’re struggling in so many ways in our own country. I’m just not convinced this is the way…

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I Love Marianne, and she has been a North Star to me for 35 years: the majority of my life. Like a sister spiritual.

We should care and support the Ukrainians all we can. How to do so, is the genius part, and I am not a genius.

Marianne is a spiritual genius.

We have to End The War, and if our leaders were had moral courage and moral intelligence, they would 12 Step it: admit our wrongs and make Amends.

We, as a nation, are not healthy enough to do that.

We lack the capacity.

Our help right now is contaminated with our character defects, and they are inseparable. Only Marianne and RFK Jr. would I trust.

We must end this, and we could, IMMEDIATELY I believe. But only honestly, and spiritually. We are not up to this task. I am sorry.

You can't get out of a situation sometimes using the same Dark Side(s)/ parts that got you I.

Marianne, I Love you, and am rooting all the way for you and Robert (He waved to me from the train in 1968)

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May 28, 2023·edited May 28, 2023

Marianne, I am grateful that you took the plunge to run again for president – we need your voice! But please, please, please don’t let the seeming demands of a candidacy advance you even one point on the wishy-washy scale.

For me your saying “no blank check,“ while failing to name, much less oppose, the Biden administration‘s blank-check policy, is a bit of a red flag. Especially when unaccompanied by any hint of the conditions under which you think the checks should stop coming.

IMHO it reads as a minor instance of the professional politician’s understandable desire to please as many as possible, and alienate as few as possible.

(Why do I call the Administration’s policy a blank-check one? Because of their [dishonest] insistence that only the Ukrainian leadership can decide whether and when to negotiate, and that we will continue to support them militarily as long as there is a war. Why “dishonest”? Because of their activity to interrupt peace negotiations early in the war, activity which you acknowledge in another comment.)

So I appreciate your speaking out on a highly controversial issue among your supporters, though, as I have stated elsewhere here, I disagree. I only mention the wishy-washy pressures attending the position you are in, in a loving and supportive attempt to help you stay honest. I knew I needed that from my supporters when I ran for office. ❤️

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But why, oh why, do we seem to have endless money to send Ukraine (in addition to having rallied global support for Ukraine) while the basic needs of millions of Americans for food, housing, healthcare, education, etc. go unmet?

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While a negotiated settlement will, as you say, become possible only in response to developments that have not yet occurred on the battlefield, the broad outlines of such a settlement can be traced: Russian acceptance of a rump Ukraine’s membership in NATO, and the stationing of NATO forces on Ukraine’s soil to preserve peace, and, in return territorial concessions in Crimea and perhaps in the east. Such a compromise would be bitterly opposed by many on all sides but would provide a path out of the horror of a horrific war and put an end to Putin’s genocidal aggression. Those who want “more” than this are pursuing risks that no one should take in the interest of “regime change” in Russia or somehow “teaching” an aggressor a “lesson.” The same aggressive mentality, on our part, that led to such terrible outcomes as those in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. Standing up for a genuine negotiated settlement means that all sides both gain and lose. But what is gained in peace far outweighs what is lost in the “could have beens” associated with ongoing or escalating war.

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I believe we should be concerned about Russia delivering a final brutal blow to Ukraine from a humanitarian standpoint but whether UKraine exist as a separate natioin, is not our business in my view, certainly beyond our participating in negotiation. You may not be saying anything different.

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i would point out to you that if you disagreed with putin in russia you would be in prison now, most likely being poisoned by novichok. and yet you do not include putin's russia among the evil doers. instead you use a cute term like "the russia-ukraine matter." very clever to call a crimian genocidal invasion by russia the russia ukraine matter. a trump supporter no doubt

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I don’t know what the answer is but I do know that the annihilation of the Ukrainian people and their country by Russia cannot be.

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maryanne, i am pleasantly surprised to read your take on this disaster that putin has unleashed on ukraine. i would like to add just one thing. russia has been an empire with empire conquest mentality for at least 3 centuries. russia stretches across 11 time zones! it has been trying to russify or annihilate ukraine, those ukrainians who want to be ukrainians in a sovereign ukraine for centuries. so what the US did is important but not the deciding factor. and the countries that joined nato or asked for US missiles did so because they had a very dangerous history with russia. just like sweden and finland now. they feel they are living next to a really dangerous and vicious neighbor.

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