Medea Benjamin: Pentagon Leaks Show Ukraine War Is a Stalemate. Why Won't the U.S. Push for Peace?

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6. Deploy Medea Benjamin to Eastern Ukraine - so that she can start those negotiations herself.

She was right to oppose Bush and his invasion of Iraq, but she has lost the thread and seems no longer to see what is right in front of her face. Russia started this war of aggression in continuance of its policies, policies that have led to the invasion of Crimea in 2014, the war in Georgia in 2008, the overseas poisonings of Russian dissidents, the suppression through imprisonment or murder of internal political opponents to Vladimir Putin, etc.

In no way can Russia in its current state be trusted to be a peaceful neighbor, much less partner to Europe. All of Eastern Europe (which formerly was under the significant influence of the Soviet Union) have ample grounds to wish not to be subjected again to influence from Russia. They are independent countries as is Ukraine.

Medea Benjamin fails to recognize any of that and might as well be as much of a Russian propagandist as Tucker Carlson at this point. Both of them fail to recognize either the fundamental rights of those countries neighboring Russia or the significant US interest in helping to maintain a Europe that is free from war.

Medea Benjamin seems now only to come across as a pathetic reflection of someone who was once quite correct in her criticisms. One thing she clearly misses is that the war can end easily, all Russia has to do is pull back from all of Ukraine's territory (including Crimea).

That is an easy off-ramp.