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'Death by Hunger' in Ukraine
https://hartmannreport.com/p/is-it-time-to-revive-the-berlin-airlift"Is It Time to Revive the Berlin Airlift for Ukraine?" Thom Hartmann
'This is not the first time Russia has tried freezing and starving people to death to get them to submit. They’ve done it at least twice before, once successfully in 1932 and once unsuccessfully in 1949...the blockade of West Berlin was to be, essentially, a repeat of the Holodomor (“death by hunger” in Ukrainian) that Russia inflicted on Ukraine during the winter of 1932 when they blockaded that nation for demanding its independence, leading to the starvation of an estimated 3.2 million people...Sixteen years later it was West Berlin, a city of 2.5 million, that was landlocked, surrounded on all sides by an East Germany under the control of the USSR.
...yesterday William Taylor (former US Ambassador to Ukraine) and David Kramer (former Assistant Secretary of State) published on op-ed in The Washington Post calling for the United States to lead western nations in rebooting the Berlin Airlift, this time for Ukraine. They’re right, and if President Biden has the courage President Truman did, he’ll take their advice. Leaving millions to starve and freeze to death is nothing less than complicity in the genocidal war crime Russia is currently committing.'