Eleven antiwar protesters were arrested Wednesday after they occupied the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Capitol Hill to demand the senator support efforts at diplomacy over sending further U.S. aid, such as weapons, to Ukraine.
Capitol Police arrested the 11 people inside the Dirksen Senate Office Building under a D.C. code that prohibits crowding, obstructing or incommoding, a Capitol Police spokesperson said. The code is often cited when arresting protesters during peaceful planned acts of civil disobedience.
The protesters, who were with the antiwar group Code Pink, were advocating for Ukrainian, Russian and U.S. leadership to negotiate an end to the war, the group said in a news release.
“Yes, Bernie should condemn the Russian invasion, but he should also be calling for a negotiated end to this brutal war,” Crystal Zevon, from Barnet, Vt., said in the news release.
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Washington has pledged more than $46 billion in military, humanitarian and financial assistance to Ukraine.
A spokesperson for Sanders said the senator’s chief of staff, foreign policy adviser and Vermont state director met with Vermonters who were concerned about the war. In a Wednesday letter to the Vermont Peace Anti-War Coalition, Sanders said he shares a “dedication to peace” and “hope for a peaceful resolution as soon as possible.”
“The U.S. should support a just peace in Ukraine, based on the principles of territorial integrity, sovereignty, and international law,” Sanders wrote in the letter.
I wondered, are these activists tankies or just dead set against support of war in any form. Tankies it is then:
Michael Rubin, writing for the Washington Examiner, has stated that Code Pink has amplified Chinese government propaganda denying the Uyghur genocide.[62] In June 2023, Code Pink activists visited the offices of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party where, according to an aide of House member Seth Moulton, they denied accusations of forced labor in Xinjiang and suggested Moulton visit Xinjiang.
By no means is war the answer, but helping Ukraine to defend its people and sovereignty at this moment in time is the right thing to do.
Exactly. What I am worried about is that more than half the country is tankie.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/04/politics/cnn-poll-ukraine/index.html
I, on the other hand am ready to fight till the last Ukrainian. And if we have to give 5 trillion gajillion too, then it is a sacrifice I am willing to make. Because we must protect democracy and freedom in Ukraine.
I, too, salute the meatgrinder. o7
Those numbers might be skewed towards a certain selection bias. Per the article:
The CNN poll was conducted by SSRS from July 1 through 31 among a random national sample of 1,279 adults initially reached by mail. Surveys were either conducted online or by telephone with a live interviewer. Results for the full sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points; it is larger for subgroups.
The fact that the people in the survey had to respond to initial correspondence by mail makes me think that the survey self selects for an older audience (age was mentioned nowhere.) That mixed with the sampling error could easily just represent a 50/50 split, which is pretty par for the course. Wouldn’t call them tankies though as their ideological manipulation comes from the other side of the political spectrum.
Show some polls to the contrary then.
I’m not your google waiter dawg. Go snap your fingers at someone else.
Here’s a link without the paywall. https://archive.ph/GtlFG
never misses huh? 
Those old ladies are obviously spooked by Russian propaganda that convinced them war is actually bad
Rape is also bad, rape victims should just stop resisting and accept it in order for the rape to end quicker. Anyone disagreeing or supporting the rape victim is pro rape.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Eleven antiwar protesters were arrested Wednesday after they occupied the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Capitol Hill to demand the senator support efforts at diplomacy over sending further U.S. aid, such as weapons, to Ukraine.
Capitol Police arrested the 11 people inside the Dirksen Senate Office Building under a D.C. code that prohibits crowding, obstructing or incommoding, a Capitol Police spokesperson said.
The code is often cited when arresting protesters during peaceful planned acts of civil disobedience.
“Yes, Bernie should condemn the Russian invasion, but he should also be calling for a negotiated end to this brutal war,” Crystal Zevon, from Barnet, Vt., said in the news release.
A spokesperson for Sanders said the senator’s chief of staff, foreign policy adviser and Vermont state director met with Vermonters who were concerned about the war.
“The U.S. should support a just peace in Ukraine, based on the principles of territorial integrity, sovereignty, and international law,” Sanders wrote in the letter.
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Imagine a woman getting raped in the bushes and a bystander runs up and instead of helping her suggests they negotiate a more comfortable position.
The only thing desired is for Russia to leave and they have already said they would prefer that be decided on the battle field. Any temporary cessation of hostilities would just be giving them room to breath, re-supply, and mass forces. There literally isn’t anything to negotiate.
