We are approaching 21 months since Russia launched its barbaric, full-scale invasion of Ukraine. We have witnessed war crimes, depravity, torture, death, and destruction on a scale the world hasn't witnessed in decades. Yet we have also seen the courage, hope, tenacity, and ingenuity of the Ukrainian people who in those days in February 2022 were written off and were assumed to capitulate in a matter of days or weeks.
After 21 months of fighting those people not only turned back the Russians around their capital but went on the offensive and reclaimed thousands of miles of their land and liberated dozens of towns and cities.
We are in a place now where once again the world is attempting to write off the Ukrainian people. A small but tireless minority in the EU and the United States are trying to influence the general population to convince us that Ukraine cannot win. They told us Ukraine cannot defeat the Black Sea Fleet; they kicked them out of Crimea. They told us Ukraine cannot cross the Dnipro; they hold Krynky. They told us Ukraine cannot master Western weapons; they rained HIMARs on the Russians.
Once again they tell us Ukraine cannot win. We do not believe them.
We need to make our voice louder. Right now our politicians are debating whether or not to continue to give Kyiv the means to fight back. While they argue and debate Ukrainians die and Russia laughs. Russia is reaping the benefits of the division they've sown in the West but we have to show them that we are united and strong.
This petition is to not just show that we support the current aid package but also that we want Ukraine to be given the tools it needs to WIN on the battlefield. The Ukrainians have shown time and time again that when they are given the weapons to fight that they use them to devastating effect. Javelins and NLAWs were the beginning, then it was 155mm artillery and HIMARs, then it was Storm Shadow and ATACMs. Give them the means to fight AND WIN. Give Ukraine capabilities and MASS. No more slow rolling weapons by the dozens. Give them tanks, planes, missiles by the thousands.
The odds have never been higher. This next year WILL determine how the world looks decades down the line. If the West fails to supply Ukraine and it is forced to capitulate it will trigger a massive refugee crisis that may bring about the fall of the EU and subsequently a global depression. War and famine will erupt on every corner of the globe and the United States will no longer be able to bury its head in the sand and pretend it can't do anything about it. We can do something today!
Sign this petition and show Congress that we support a Ukrainian VICTORY and every action that will bring that day closer.
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