U.S. Senate approves aide for Ukraine: A great day for freedom. Bad day for Putin, Xi, Khamenei, Castro and other autocrats."

Slava Ukraini!

The United States Senate approved aide for Ukraine tonight. I quoted President Zelensky on X and recognized that it was a "great day for freedom. Bad day for Putin, Xi, Khamenei, Castro and other autocrats."

The United States has an obligation with regard to Ukraine. When negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow broke down on removing nuclear weapons from Ukraine in September 1993, Washington engaged in a trilateral process with Kyiv and Moscow. This resulted in the January 1994 Trilateral Statement. Ukraine agreed to transfer its nuclear warheads to Russia. 

Ukraine received security assurances from the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom. Abandoning Ukraine in the short term may appear to guarantee peace, but appeasement will encourage more aggression, and more war.

This is not Moscow's first genocide against Ukrainians. Please watch the documentary 20 Days in Mariupol to get a glimpse of the brutality of this war launched by Putin in February 2022, and share it with others. It is free and available online.

A coalition of Cuban and Cuban American groups on January 18, 2024 made public an open letter titled "Ukraine must not be abandoned."  

In the letter, Cuban American members of the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance (ARC), a coalition of pro-democracy and human rights organizations that operate inside and outside Cuba, have called on the U.S. Congress “to expedite its proceedings and vote for the national security supplemental, which would provide Ukraine the desperately needed security assistance to thwart Russia’s onslaught.”

Cuban democrats are closely watching the events unfolding in Ukraine, and Havana's involvement in this unjust war, but lessons are also being learned from the example set by Ukrainians. 

We stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine.

“Requiem for the Forgotten” a composition by Frank La Rocca was premiered on.March 15, 2024 at the Epiphany Church in Miami, Florida.  It also included a new hymn, “Offertory for Ukraine,” written by poet James Matthew Wilson to honor Catholic martyrs persecuted under Soviet communism, and by Putin today.