July 12, 2023—President Biden’s desperate decision to send expired cluster munitions to Ukraine and the silence of the U.S. Senators from New York, Schumer and Gillibrand, with regard to this criminal policy underscore why I must be elected in 2024 to represent the interests of our nation and our state in the U.S. Senate.

Even Biden’s former press secretary Jen Psaki, in a February 28, 2022 White House press conference, mused that alleged Russian use of cluster munitions, of which she admitted to having seen “no evidence of,” if true, “would potentially be a war crime.” Senators Schumer and Gillibrand, who both serve on the Senate Intelligence Committee, and, in the case of Gillibrand, also on the Armed Services Committee, should know that use of cluster munitions is considered a war crime by 123 nations, including many NATO members, but neither has voiced any opposition to this policy.

Such an announcement, on the eve of the long-awaited Vilnius NATO summit, should reveal to American lawmakers the folly of continued insistence on the “destruction of Russia.” This foolhardy policy has not only strengthened the Russian economy, but it is also bankrupting the United States, as can be seen by multiple deadly infrastructure failures, including the recent flooding in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Imagine how William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, and Friedrich Schiller might combine to depict the scene at Vilnius:

King Lear, played by President Biden marches in facing backwards, and announces that Sweden’s admittance to NATO is “a big f***ing deal,” and walks out again forgetting to sit down for dinner. The Queen of Hearts, played by President Zelensky dressed in drag as Queen Greta Thunberg, enters in 4-inch stilettos shrieking, “Off with all of their heads if Ukraine is not allowed to join NATO!” Then King Charles, as the Grand Inquisitor from Schiller's Don Carlos, steps from the shadows to the front of the stage as chorus announcing that all of this is being done in order to provoke the use of nuclear weapons, thereby assuring that the world population can be brought down to manageable levels, namely zero.

Were the stakes not so high, the world would be laughing at this pathetic gathering of self-important delusional fools, only able to rule the world “in their minds,” as Zelensky likes to say of his plans to retake Crimea.

NATO has long outlived its usefulness and should be dissolved immediately, and a new security architecture put in its place which respects the sovereignty and security needs of every nation equally, as Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche has stated.

The decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine violates all standards of moral conduct and international law and must be reversed. Any elected official who supports this criminal policy should be removed from office.

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