BBC.com quotes you<\/a> as saying that if support for Ukraine is strong the crisis will be shorter. Hmmm? I guess that might depend on what you mean by \u201csupport for Ukraine?\u201d If by \u201csupport for Ukraine,\u201d you mean the West continuing to supply arms to the Kiev government\u2019s armies, I fear you may be tragically mistaken. Throwing fuel, in the form of armaments, into a firefight, has never worked to shorten a war in the past, and it won\u2019t work now, particularly because, in this case, most of the fuel is (a) being thrown into the fire from Washington DC, which is at a relatively safe distance from the conflagration, and (b) because the \u201cfuel throwers\u201d have already declared an interest in the war going on for as long as possible.<\/p>\n People like you and me actually want peace in Ukraine, don\u2019t want the outcome to be that you have to fight\u00a0 to the last Ukrainian life \u2013 and possibly even, if the worst comes to the worst, to the last human life.<\/p>\n If we, instead, wish to achieve a different outcome we may have to seek a different route and that route may lie in your husband\u2019s previously stated good intentions.<\/p>\n Yes, I mean the platform upon which he so laudably ran for the office of President of Ukraine, the platform upon which he won his historic landslide victory in the democratic election in 2019.<\/p>\n He stood on the election platform of the following promises.<\/p>\n One can only assume that your husband\u2019s electoral policies didn\u2019t sit well with certain political factions in Kiev and that those factions persuaded your husband to diametrically change course ignoring the people\u2019s mandate. Sadly, your old man agreed to those totalitarian, anti-democratic dismissals of the will of the Ukrainian people, and the forces of extreme nationalism that had lurked, malevolent, in the shadows, have, since then, ruled the Ukraine. They have, also since then, crossed any number of red lines that had been set out quite clearly over a number of years by your neighbors the Russian Federation and in consequence they, the extreme nationalists, have set your country on the path to this disastrous war.<\/p>\n I won\u2019t go on.<\/p>\n If I\u2019m wrong, please help me to understand how?<\/p>\n If I\u2019m not wrong, please help me in my honest endeavors to persuade our leaders to stop the slaughter, the slaughter which serves only the interests of the ruling classes and extreme nationalists both here in the West, and in your beautiful country, at the expense of the rest of us ordinary people both here in the West, and in the Ukraine, and in fact ordinary people everywhere all over the world.<\/p>\n Might it not be better to demand the implementation of your husband\u2019s election promises and put an end to this deadly war?<\/p>\n Love, ___________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n Roger Waters, an activist and human rights advocate, was the singer, songwriter and bassist for the British rock band <\/em>Pink Floyd. He also has had an extensive solo career.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 5 Sep 2022 – Dear Mrs Zelenska, peace may lie in your husband\u2019s previously stated good intentions and in the platform he so laudably ran for the office of President of Ukraine and won:\n
\nRoger Waters<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/assange-roger-waters-demo-150x150.jpeg\")
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<\/a>Olena Volodymyrivna Zelenska is a Ukrainian screenwriter and the First Lady of Ukraine as the wife of current President Volodymyr Zelensky. In December 2019, she was included in the list of the 100 most influential Ukrainians by <\/em>Focus magazine, taking 30th place.<\/em> Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nA) To end the civil war in the East and bring peace to the Donbas and partial autonomy to Donetsk and Luhansk.
\nB) To ratify and implement the rest of the body of the Minsk2 agreements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":58365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[1035,1268,1126,1050,2462,91,1301,112,818,278,961,2200,95,70,1594,481,172],"class_list":["post-219250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-balkans-eastern-europe","tag-eastern-europe","tag-european-union","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-military-industrial-media-complex","tag-nato","tag-nuclear-war","tag-pentagon","tag-proxy-war","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-us-empire","tag-us-military","tag-usa","tag-war-economy","tag-warfare","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}