This week the Welsh trade union movement comes together in Llandudno for TUC Cymru congress to debate motions and consider priorities for the next two years. JESS TURNER sets the stage
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Are we stumbling into World War III in Ukraine?
Biden’s supposed path to peace is only escalating the war in Ukraine, and other Western leaders seem eager to join a major war with Russia — we desperately need a plan B, write MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
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PRESIDENT Joe Biden began his State of the Union speech on March 7 with an impassioned warning that failing to pass his $61 billion weapons package for Ukraine “will put Ukraine at risk, Europe at risk, the free world at risk.”
But even if the president’s request were suddenly passed, it would only prolong, and dangerously escalate, the brutal war that is destroying Ukraine.
The assumption of the Western political elite that their leaders had a viable plan to defeat Russia and restore Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders has proven to be one more triumphalist US dream that has turned into a nightmare. Ukraine has joined North Korea, Vietnam, Somalia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and now Gaza, as another shattered monument to US military madness.
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