World Beyond War wants peace talks between Russia and Ukraine to quickly put an end to this madness
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Picture: KREMLIN via REUTERS/ALEXEY NIKOLSYI
Nato’s annual war spending is $1.2-trillion; Russia’s is $61bn . More than 50% of the US federal government budget is now spent on war preparations and the continuing financial costs of past wars. It is glaringly obvious which is the greater threat to global peace.The US and then vice-president Joe Biden recklessly provoked Vladimir Putin by orchestrating the 2014 Maidan regime change, and the removal of Ukraine’s democratically elected, albeit pro-Russian, president.
And so am I. Incidentally, I came to SA during the 1960s as an American university student to study apartheid. I had every intention of returning permanently to the US. Instead, I married a South African. I relinquished my US citizenship to become involved in the anti-apartheid movement and my wife, Lavinia, subsequently became Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s executive assistant for 22 years, from 1986 until 2008.
The New York banking sanctions campaign against apartheid is nonetheless the only instance where sanctions have achieved their objective.
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