Weekend Quotables
Weekend Quotables
Zelensky: '...Stock up on anti-radiation medicine and build air-raid shelters."
The global catastrophe that is Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is rapidly spinning out of control and moving towards all-out war, with the injection of foreign troops, mercenaries, and tons of US-supplied weapons of mass destruction. Even more grotesque is the new normalization of casual talk and threats about the use of nuclear weapons.
Appearing on Face the Nation Sunday, Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat, was confronted by CBS’s Margaret Brennan about comments he made earlier in the week in which he strongly suggested that the U.S. should send troops to Ukraine to directly fight a war against Russia.
Pope Francis, in an Easter address delivered to tens of thousands of worshipers in St. Peter’s Square, called for “peace for war-torn Ukraine,” and for caution in a conflict that could lead to nuclear war.
Russia is willing to use nuclear weapons to bring a catastrophic end to its invasion of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky warned Friday - as he urged the world to 'prepare' for the worst by stocking up on anti-radiation medicine and building air-raid shelters.
I’ve got a better idea. The world’s nations join together and pressure all sides back to the negotiating table as a first step in saving the planet.
Weekend Quotables
Rajan Menon, senior research fellow at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University
Eventually, however, this war, like all others, will conclude, but not before Russia or Ukraine, perhaps both, become convinced that the losses – in blood and treasure – are unbearable and success beyond reach. — Guardian
David Beasley, executive director of the UN's World Food Programme.
What breaks your heart is there's $430 trillion worth of wealth around the world today. There's no reason a single child should be dying from hunger, much less going to bed hungry.
And now, because we're devastating the breadbasket of the world, there's a possibility that children all over the world, independent of humanitarian aid, are not going to have the availability of food. So it's a serious problem, but the answer is obviously to end the war. —Face the Nation
Nicole Ghio with the environmental group Friends of the Earth
…said Biden was “auctioning off our public lands to big oil,” putting oil industry profits ahead of future generations that will have to deal with the worsening consequences of the climate crisis. —- Guardian
Ida Bae Wells (Nicole Hannah Jones)
I cannot predict what will happen in our country, but I do believe we will look back and be appalled at the failures of journalism in this period of clear and in my lifetime, unprecedented, attacks on freedom of speech and our democratic institutions. — Twitter