How Trump can end the war in Ukraine, according to a former ambassador : NPR

The withdrawal will need to be accompanied by a drastic reduction of Russian forces away from Ukraine’s borders, including in eastern Ukraine, Belarus and the Black Sea. The Ukrainian government and people cannot be expected to rebuild and return to their peacetime lives with Russian boots, tanks and warships hovering near Ukraine’s borders. National governments could outlaw war and its preparations in their national constitutions, like Japan (in Article 9) and Costa Rica (in Article 12) have done. In those two countries, governmental leaders cannot weaponize the state and commandeer armed forces.

Leaders of Jordan, France and Egypt call for immediate ceasefire in Gaza

There is no likelihood of a military resolution to the conflict, in either standwithtigray.com direction. On 10 December 2005 the StWC held an International Peace Conference attended by around 1,500 people. Speakers from across the world included Cindy Sheehan, the American mother whose son died in Iraq; and Hassan Juma, president of the Iraqi Southern Oil Workers Union. Thirty-eight of those 46 bodies have been identified, the hospital said. “Most of the bodies came from the east of the Khan Younis area, and the bodies are decomposed, and found dead under rubble of demolished buildings,” the statement read. The bodies of 46 Palestinians have been brought to the European Hospital in Gaza since Monday morning, the European Hospital said in a statement on its Telegram channel.

Some analysts and commentators have mapped out scenarios in which further negotiations never happen, and they could be right. Putin might prove successful in ousting Zelensky and his administration. Ironically, if he does, it will come at great cost to his forces, and the puppet regime he imposes will also be sanctioned heavily, making Putin responsible for another potential economic basket case to go along with the one he is engineering in his own country. No doubt, Putin will press for demilitarization in Ukraine, and it will be a non-starter for the Ukrainians. But they might well be willing to say once a peace is clearly established, they will accept limitations on the amount and types of weapons they will maintain, and will also agree not to have foreign forces based in Ukraine.

Can the General Assembly step in when the Security Council is unable to take a decision on stopping a war?

To abolish war, humanity would need to agree that war was no longer allowed. Systems would need to be put in place to prevent countries that did want to go to war from doing so. There are no international mechanisms, nor the global political will, to officially abolish war. Another way that war can be stopped is if more powerful nations were willing to intervene to prevent or end conflicts. Weaker nations would be less likely to go to war if they knew stronger countries would take action against them if they did. The problem with this is that outside interventions into conflicts that often exacerbated, not ended, wars.

CNN cannot independently verify the findings in HRW’s report, but has reported similar accounts from Gazan civilians, Palestinian officials in Gaza and international humanitarian organizations documenting the war. In a joint phone conversation on Tuesday, the two leaders discussed the need to speed up the introduction of a ceasefire and more humanitarian and medical aid. The leaders also talked about how to prevent further military escalation and displacement of civilians in Gaza and the West Bank. The main difference between abolishing something and simply stopping it is that abolishment means the complete and formal ending of a practice.

Tuesday saw the highest number of aid trucks to enter Gaza since October 7, Israel says

As noted above, Ukraine will not demilitarize, as the Kremlin has demanded. And if we are to understand Putin’s nonsensical justifications correctly, Ukraine will not undergo “denazification” by ousting its own democratically-elected government led by a president who happens to be Jewish. A distinguishing feature of the organizing principles and work of the answer coalition, in contrast with the traditional U.S. peace movement was its uncompromising support in defense of the rights of the Palestinian people. On February 15, 2003, many millions of people, in nearly every country in the world, joined together in the largest coordinated antiwar actions in history. As citizens of one world, we must fulfill human and environmental needs, rights and duties.

Witnesses and civilians who were trapped inside the hospital when it was raided say the vicinity “was full of bodies,” according to Basal. “The occupation forces have plowed these bodies and buried them in the ground,” he added. A final reason why we can’t stop wars is because there will always be some people who will use violence to achieve their aims. There is no way to create a world where violence is not seen as one way for a group to dominate another, to achieve economic or material superiority or to take revenge.

A papier-mâché statue of Bush was toppled in an action reminiscent of the much televised pulling down of a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad by American soldiers. Speakers included politician George Galloway, then SNP leader Alex Salmond and Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic. Iran and its proxy militia groups also do not appear poised to attack US troops or other assets in the region for similar reasons, the sources said. The sources noted, however, that Iran does not have perfect command and control over all of its proxy forces, so the possibility of an attack on US assets cannot be completely ruled out.