Sekuyisikhathi eside ukhulumele idiplomacy yangempela ukuze uqede impi embi nokuhlupheka kwabantu e-Ukraine. Ukuhlasela kweRussia kwakuwubugebengu. Manje, impi imile futhi alukho uhlangothi olungakwazi โukunqoba.โ Njengoba abahlaziyi abaningi kuhlanganise Noam Chomsky kanye UGen. Mark Milley bathi, impi izophela kuphela ngesivumelwano sokuthula okuxoxiwe ngaso phakathi kweRussia ne-Ukraine.
Ngenkathi kwethulwa i-Congressional Progressive Caucus ngo-1991, inhloso enkulu kwakuwukushintsha izinsiza zikahulumeni zisuka ePentagon kanye nosonkontileka bezempi ziye ezinhlelweni zokuthuthukisa umphakathi nobulungiswa emphakathini. Nokho namuhla, kubonakala sengathi amanye amalungu e-CPC alwela kanzima izikhali e-Ukraine kunokunakekelwa kwezempilo kwabaseMelika.
Sekuyisikhathi sokuthi uphule ukuthula kwakho okuvumelayo ngeMpi yase-Ukraine, njengoba uMartin Luther King Jr. ngesibindi wenza ngo-1967 lapho umongameli weDemocratic Alliance ecela "ukuvikela intando yeningi" njengesizathu sokuthumela izikhali namasosha amaningi eMpini yaseVietnam. Inkosi okubhekiselwe ekusetshenzisweni kwempi โnjengeshubhu lokumunca elinobudemoni, elibhubhisayoโ elakhipha izinsiza ezinhlelweni ezibalulekile zokulwa nobumpofu. Maphakathi nawo-1960, amanye amaDemocrats kuKhongolose akhuluma ngempi emelene nomongameli weqembu lawo; bafuna izimpendulo, ukubalwa kwezindleko, futhi kuxoxiswane kuqedwe impi. Sibheka emuva - okuhlanganisa noSenator Wayne Morse, Eugene McCarthy noRobert Kennedy - njengamaqhawe eDemocratic Alliance angaleso sikhathi.
Namuhla, intuthuko kuCongress ibikude kakhulu nobuqhawe - njengoba wehlulekile ukufuna izimpendulo ze-Democratic White House ebonakala ingenalo uhlelo ngaphandle kokuthumela izikhali ezengeziwe e-Ukraine. Ngonyaka odlule, bekukubi kakhulu kunokujabhisa ukukubona uhoxisa ngokunganaki a incwadi enamagama aphakathi kumongameli owabiza ngokuphusile ukuthi "kuphushwe ngokushesha" mayelana nesivumelwano okuxoxiswana ngaso.
Abaningi babavoti bakho bayagula ukubona amaRiphabhulikhi angakwesokudla kuCongress evala isikhala esidalwe ukuthula kwakho, efuna ukuziphendulela ngeMpi yase-Ukraine โChaza I-Mission Act.โ Uma ungafuni ukusekela umthetho wabo, kungani ungazange wethule eyakho ibhili mayelana nokuziphendulela kwe-Ukraine? Maqondana nempi ekhulisa ubungozi bempi yenuzi, yisiphi isinyathelo osusithathile selokhu kwahoxiswa ngokungafanele incwadi ye-push-for-diplomacy ngonyaka odlule?
Njengoba abantu base-Ukraine beqhubeka nokuhlupheka, kube khona imibiko ephazamisayo ukuthi i-US kanye nabalingani bayo banayo empeleni ukuvinjelwa izinhlelo zamanxusa. Kuze kube manje, iCongress isivumile ngaphezulu kuka-$100 billion e-Ukraine ukusetshenziswa kwemali okuhlobene nempi kusukela ekuhlaselweni kweRussia, ikakhulukazi usizo lwezempi - nge $ 76.8 billion ngqo e-Ukraine. Futhi i-White House manje ifuna uxhaso lwezikhali ezengeziwe, ngaphandle kokuphikiswa - nesikhuthazo esikhulu - kwabathuthukayo kuCongress.
Ngokungafani nabazimele be-"America-First", abathuthukayo bangamazwe ngamazwe. Siyabakhathalela abantu base-Ukraine; sisekela usizo olukhulu oluya e-Ukraine manje kanye nokwakhiwa kabusha esikhathini esizayo. Simangele abasekeli benqubomgomo kaBiden yase-Ukraine abehlisa ubunzima base-Ukraine njengoba bencoma impi ende njengempi. ukunqoba kwezintshisekelo ze-US geo-politiki.
Ama-Progressives kuCongress kufanele aqhube ifa le Martin Luther King, UKhongolose Shirley Chisolm nabanye abaningi ukushintsha uhulumeni wobumbano gxila kusukela impi - manje kubiza cishe ama- $ 1 trillion ngonyaka, nge 750 izisekelo zamasosha aphesheya โ kubulungiswa bezenhlalakahle ekhaya. Sekuyisikhathi sokuthi wephule amarenki kusukela ku-lockstep yempi engapheli:
1. Qala ukubuza imibuzo mayelana nenqubomgomo ye-Ukraine yabaphathi be-Biden, okuhlanganisa nokuthi izigidigidi zamadola entela ezikhali zempi zingase zisetshenziswe kanjani ekucindezeleni izidingo zasekhaya.
2. Uma ungafuni ukusekela umthethosivivinywa oqalwe yiRiphabhulikhi ofuna ukuziphendulela ngeMpi yase-Ukraine, thula eyakho.
3. Funa ukulalelwa kwe-Congressional ebanzi e-Ukraine okubandakanya ochwepheshe abaqhubekayo abaye bagxeka ukwehluleka kwe-US ukusebenzela ukuqeda ukudubula kanye nezingxoxo zokuqeda impi.
4. Phikelela ukuthi abaphathi be-Biden bazibandakanye ekukhulumeni kwangempela ukuze baqede ukwesabeka kwempi e-Ukraine.
Jeff Cohen ungumsunguli we-RootsAction.org, uprofesa wobuntatheli osethathe umhlalaphansi e-Ithaca College nombhali we-โCable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media.โ Ngo-1986, wasungula iqembu lokubuka abezindaba ANO.
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