An appeal to Daily Ructions readers.
Dear Friends of Daily Ructions,
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You live in peace. Our Ukrainian brothers and sisters in freedom do not. Thousands have succumbed to Russian genocide. Millions are in daily range of Russian arms aimed at Ukrainian civilians, hospitals, and schools. Rape has long been a Russian weapon of war. Thousands of Ukrainian children have been abducted into Russian servitude.
The actor Liev Schreiber has been a heroic supporter of Ukraine since the February 2022 Russian invasion. He and others of goodwill founded BlueCheck Ukraine. Its purpose:
BlueCheck Ukraine identifies, vets, and fast-tracks urgent financial support to Ukrainian NGOs and aid initiatives providing life-saving and other critical humanitarian work on the front lines of Russia’s war on Ukraine. They have the proximity, local knowledge and access to assist those in desperate need.
I have raised thousands for BlueCheck Ukraine without making a public appeal. It is not enough. The brave people of Ukraine are fighting for us at the frontline of freedom. Their fight is our fight. And now, with the result of the 2024 American presidential election, they are in danger of being abandoned by the United States but not before being forced to accept ruinous terms of a peace agreement brokered by an autocrat and his admirer.
Winston Churchill said to Neville Chamberlain of the 1938 sellout of Czechoslovakia in Munich, “You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.” An incoming president and his running mate made clear during the recently concluded campaign that they are willing to embrace dishonor.
You and I do not have to choose dishonor. We can help Ukraine by donating to BlueCheck Ukraine.
To learn more, watch or listen to Margaret Hoover’s moving interview of Liev Schrieber.
Published December 23, 2014.