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Open letter to President Trump

2/25/2017

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PictureGlobal Harmony Association (GHA) peacefromharmony.org
​February 1, 2017
 
Professor Rudolf J. Siebert, 
Department of Comparative Religion,
Western Michigan University, Michigan, USA
rsieb3@aol.com
http://www.rudolfjsiebert.org 
http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=51

To: Mr. Donald Trump, President of the United States,

Subject: Your Global Peace Paradigm for the US geopolitics, its Christian meaning, and convergence with President Putin’s Global Peace Paradigm of Russia.

Dear President Trump:

I enjoyed very much that you became a peacemaker, when you in your campaign speech o­n foreign policy of April 27, 2016, promised to end President Obama’s aggressive geopolitics, and to make our goal - peace and prosperity, not war and destruction, and to make America great again through global peace, and not through war. Here you have formulated the Global Peace Paradigm for the United States, in which I see a deep religious, and even Christian meaning. You have formulated this Paradigm at a time, when the Dooms Clock in New York has o­nce more moved several degrees toward Midnight.

I am a scholar, who has devoted his life to the comparative study of religions, particularly their ability to promote harmony and peace, as formulated and expressed especially in the Sermon o­n the Mount, including the Golden Rule. The latter is recognized by almost all living world religions. It has been translated into the widely accepted secular ethics of the categorical imperative and of the a priori unlimited communication community. Your Global Peace Paradigm is built o­n this Golden Rule. Thus, it carries in itself the religious and Christian meaning of love and nonviolence, inspiring all faithful and reasonable people. You and President Putin have both confessed publicly, that you are not o­nly modern enlightened people, but also believers, and even Christians, if also in different Christian paradigms.

I have founded a Center for Humanistic Future Studies at Western Michigan University, with a strong peace component, out of which developed an international course o­n The Future of Religion at the IUC in Dubrovnik, Croatia, which has lasted now for over 40 years, and an international sister course about Religion in Civil Society in Yalta, Crimea, which is supported by American as well as by the Crimean Universities, and which has now lasted for 14 years. Scholars from all over the world have met in both courses every year in order to work for peace. Unfortunately, we were unable to meet in the past year in Yalta, because of President Obama’s United States Executive Order 13685, and other sanctions, which are harmful not o­nly for Russia, but also for America, and for the development of mutual scientific and cultural cooperation.We are looking very much foreward to your cancellation of these sanctions, which will allow us to resume again our international course in Yalta, in the service of peace.For more than 40 years, I have travelled between the American and the Slavic Worlds, in order to promote friendship and peaceful cooperation between them. Please, see my biography: http://www.rudolfjsiebert.org/. 
 
In our Center for Humanistic Future Studies, and its branches in Dubrovnik and Yalta, we have created a critical theory of religion in the past 50 years, which asserts that there can not be any peace among nations without peace among religions; no peace among religions without discourse among them; and no dialogue among the religions without foundation research in them (Hans Küng). Our dialectical religiology understands itself as practical discourse: as future-oriented remembrance of human suffering, particularly through war, with the practical intent, to diminish it through helping to reconcile the dissonance between the sacred and the profane dimension, and in the religious and secular spheres, and thus to resolve some of the consequent, most painful culture wars, at home and abroad. The critical theory of religion aims, with the help of the great world religions and world philosophies, particularly Kant, Hegel, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Einstein, King, Kalam, and many Nobel Peace Laureates, at the post-modern alternative of Future III - a free and peaceful society, characterized by the reconciliation of the religious and the secular, as well as of personal autonomy and universal solidarity, instead of Future I - a totally administered society, or Future II - and entirely militaristic society. Secular people know, that there is something missing in modern civil society. Religious people have to find new translators for their message of redemption, and liberation, and peace. Please, see our books, in which our critical theory of religion has been developed, o­n my website: http://www.rudolfjsiebert.org/.
 
More than 11 years ago, I became a member of the international peacemaking organization Global Harmony Association (GHA: http://peacefromharmony.org). It brings together thousands of individual and collective members from over 60 countries, and has a prominent place in the global civil society. The GHA has published 8 books, and has created more than 50 projects of global peace for 12 years (http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=472). The GHA has created a Global Peace Science (GPS) with the help of 174 co-authors, including the President of India, Abdul Kalam, three Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, and dozens of distinguished scientists and peacemakers from 34 countries, including 59 of them, coming from the US (http://peacefromharmony.org/docs/global-peace-science-2016.pdf). A book about this Global Peace Science is attached.
 
As GHA nominated Ambassador of Peace and Disarmament, o­n the basis of the Sermon o­n the Mount, including the Golden Rule, I would like to submit the following proposals and invitations to you, in the name of all of us:
1. In your speech o­n April 27, 2016, you promised to seek a new vision, new minds, voices, ideas and approaches to peace. Could you make practical use of these resources by inviting GHA to cooperate? 

2. For the purpose of convergence of the peace positions of the Presidents of the two nuclear superpowers, GHA invites you and President Putin to take part in the republication of the book o­n the Global Peace Science, ​​including articles o­n your own vision of a global peace paradigm and its geopolitics, in the historical perspective of the 21st century, which you can today offer to your nations, and the entire world. This will immortalize your names as the founders of peace science together with the names of Kant, Hegel, Tolstoy, Gandhi, King, Kalam, and several Nobel Peace Laureates, and will open the common ground for peace negotiations between the American and the Slavic Worlds. Here the Global Peace Paradigm contained in our critical theory of religion can be particularly helpful.
 
3. A logical extension of the Global Peace Science would be a joint establishment of a small, but nevertheless effective International Institute/Academy of Global Peace in the United States and in Russia, in order to find collective answers to increasing challenges, and for the sake of peace of all humanity. o­nly you and President Putin together can constitute this science through its support, use and participation in its development. o­nly you and President Putin are able to give practical lifeto the Global Peace Science in the world politics and culture. Hardly anything else can strengthen and lift up your and President Putin’s world prestige, as well as the good reputation of yourcountries respectively. This Global Peace Institute would be an intellectual as well as spiritual bridge between the two countries, which will show to all the world that you can build not o­nly walls, but also bridges. Pope Francis I has defined being Christian as being able to build bridges: to break through the many ingroup - outgroup barriers.
 
4. You, together with President Putin, could offer the Global Peace Science, developed with your participation, to the educational systems of the American and the Slavic worlds, in order to increase the level of peaceful consciousness in their populations. Your presidential narratives in the Global Peace Science would be able, to pull the consciousness of the world media away from militarism, fakes and military terminology in all areas (Putin), and from defining politics as the identification of the enemy (Carl Schmitt, Hitler’s jurist and political theologian), and toward defining it as the art to make friends, and toward a way of peaceful thinking, in order to provide a common goal - peace and prosperity, not war and destruction (Trump). 

5. A joint development of the Global Peace Science could be the best convergence of President Putin’s and President Trump's global peace paradigms, and their common sense (Trump) in nuclear disarmament up to nuclear zero as soon as possible. It will allow both of you together to make this century the most peaceful and prosperous the world has ever known (Trump), and spread the peace ideal of humanity (Putin). 

6. The joint Global Peace Science could become a common philosophical and scientific foundation for the creation of   Peace Departments in the Governments (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Department of State) of the two world powers, about which the best minds of Russia and America have dreamed and thought. Global Peace Science, global peace education, and governmental Peace Departments as the soft-power resources (Putin) could fulfill the hope of Mahatma Gandhi and of Martin Luther King Jr.: We must shift the arms race into a peace race. 

You and President Putin are pragmatists in the best sense of the word, and both of you are the peacemakers, who can make use of the proposed soft-power resources, in your quest to find a new vision, new minds, ideas and approaches (Trump) for your common peace geopolitics.
 
Certainly, the GHA, and the majority of peace organizations in the USA, and in the world, are happy to support your historically important paradigm of global peace, which you have presented o­n April 27, 2016 in your election campaign speech. It was presented in comparison with President Putin’s peace paradigm in our published article Putin-Trump: Two Paradigms of Global Peace: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=735 (in attachment).
 
Our deep concern is to ensure, that your peace program is not o­nly a pre-election promise, that is easily forgotten, but that it will find its development and validation in a radical change of the US relations with Russia, which recently have reached a very dangerous point in the nuclear standoff. We would like to believe and to hope, that your peaceful program will be implemented as promised: We shall seek common ground, based o­n shared interests. Theory must turn over into praxis, without neglecting theory!
 
We are convinced that the Global Peace Science and its philosophy will be the best scientific and spiritual basis for shared interests and fora whole complex of peacemaking cooperation between the American World and the Slavic World, Eurasia, concerning, e.g. terrorism, or environmental issues, or epidemics,  etc., but  mainly and particularly  nuclear disarmament/zero, and a common  Summit, to address this global and  most dangerous challenge for all nations,  and  not just for the USA and Russia. Please, see our project: Russia and the USA Peaceful Cooperation Instead of the Insanity of Nuclear War: "RUSAP" by 42 peacemakers, including three Nobel Peace Laureates from 21 countries: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=710 (in attachment).
 
Our proposals include not o­nly the creation of a Peace Department in the USA and in the Russian Federation, but also the development of an Earth Constitution, as a renewed international law, ensuring global peace. Both projects are formulated in a Pragmatics page at the end of our article Trump: Peacemaking Revolution of the USA against Aggressive Geopolitics by 20 coauthors from 11 countries: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=685 (in attachment).
 
We very much hope for your attention to the peace proposals contained in the Global Peace Science, which were carried o­n for decades in theory, but were ignored in praxis by the past Administrations, neglecting peace problems. These proposals are extremely important for the development, and successful realization of your global peace paradigm. With your Administration, the time has come to move from peace talk to peace action.
 
Thank you for your consideration.
I am, with my best wishes, for you and your administration
 
Yours,
 
Rudolf J. Siebert
Professor of Religion and Society
Department of Comparative Religion
Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, Michigan

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RAGA Newsletter Antidote 32: Re Trump: Buchanan, Lozansky, Jatras, Babich, Mercouris, McGovern, Binney,Giraldi, Bolton, Armstrong, Zuesse, Jain, Roulston, Cobb, Semashko, Siebert

2/25/2017

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​Dear friends of the Russia & America Good Will Association (www.raga.org) and antiwar colleagues! 

In RAGA December 24, 2017 Newsletter Antidote 31, I re-affirmed RAGA's essentially non-political stance, but congratulated Donald Trump on his victory and wished him success in his presidency, especially, implementing new peace initiatives he promised in regard to Russia. 

Since then I have been watching the American political scene with amazement, disgust and unease about a steep decline of civility in US public life. The Big Media seem to be determined to make life miserable for the new president whose electoral victory nobody dares to challenge in a court of law. CNN openly discussed feasibility of his assassination, while the Washington Post almost daily ridicules his every move.

Individually RAGA people may have strong political convictions or inclinations, but as a peace-loving community we try to over-rule political passions in favor of a sober realization that both the USA and Russia, as supreme nuclear powers, have a responsibility before humankind to find a way to co-exist and interact for mutual benefits. 

History shows that a nation engaged in civil strife is more likely to embark on reckless military adventures abroad. So, I am worried twice: as a citizen of the US, I am troubled by its internal turmoil, and as a citizen of the world, I fear an eruption of hatred inside the USA may spill over to other countries and destabilize the world.

Below is a collection of sobering facts and opinions sent to me or collected by RAGA associates, beginning with an article by a conservative journalist and former member of President Reagan's team and presidential candidate himself:  

1. “America First”: An Inaugural Address for the Ages. By Patrick J. Buchanan
   As the patriotic pageantry of Inauguration Day gave way to the demonstrations of defiance Saturday, our new America came into view. We are two nations now, two peoples.
   Though bracing, President Trump’s inaugural address was rooted in cold truths, as he dispensed with the customary idealism of inaugurals that are forgotten within a fortnight of the president being sworn in. President Trump’s inaugural was Jacksonian.
http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2017/01/president-trump-inaugural-address-america-first-pat-buchanan.html

2. Moral Supremacy and Mr. Putin. By Patrick J. Buchanan, February 07, 2017
Is Donald Trump to be allowed to craft a foreign policy based on the ideas on which he ran and won the presidency in 2016? Our foreign policy elite’s answer appears to be a thunderous no. Case in point: U.S. relations with Russia.
....Asked during his taped Super Bowl interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly whether he respected Putin, Trump said that, as a leader, yes.
O’Reilly pressed, "But he’s a killer... Putin’s a killer."
   Trump replied, "There are a lot of killers. We’ve got a lot of killers. What, do you think our country’s so innocent?"
   While his reply was clumsy, Trump’s intent was commendable.
http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2017/02/06/moral-supremacy-and-mr-putin/

3. Old friends Ed Lozansky and Jim Jatras discuss America's choice in both English and Russian 
What Is Best for America - Russia as a Friend or a Foe?
By Edward Lozansky and Jim Jatras - Monday, January 16, 2017:
<<For Donald Trump and the overwhelming majority of the American people, including those who did not vote for him, the choice between friend and foe is obvious. The whole history of U.S.-Russia relations proves that if we work together it’s a win-win scenario. However, it appears that for Trump’s enemies lurking in what he calls the Washington “swamp” Russia is more useful as a foe, and all who disagree are either directly recruited by Vladimir Putin or are deplorable zombie tools of Kremlin propaganda.>>
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/16/what-best-america-russia-friend-or-foe/

Same in Russian:
«Для Дональда Трампа и подавляющего большинства американцев, включая и тех, кто за него не голосовал, выбор между другом и врагом очевиден. Вся история российско-американских отношений доказывает, что, если мы работаем вместе, это выигрышная ситуация для всех», — пишут президент Американского университета в Москве Эд Лозанский и бывший дипломат США Джим Джатрас.
   Авторы предлагают обратиться к истории: за последние 30 лет Михаил Горбачёв, Борис Ельцин, Владимир Путин, Дмитрий Медведев, а затем снова Путин «стучались в дверь в Вашингтона», пытаясь добиться, чтобы Россию воспринимали как друга и союзника, но всё напрасно. В обмен на «добровольный развал советской империи», отказ от коммунистической идеологии, помощь в борьбе с терроризмом российские лидеры получили лишь аннулированный договор об ограничении систем противоракетной обороны, «смены режимов» и «цветные революции» в соседних государствах, «демонизацию» в СМИ, санкции и бесконечное расширение НАТО. Как говорится, «Россия хочет войны! Посмотрите, как близко они пододвинули свою страну к нашим военным базам!»
https://russian.rt.com/inotv/2017-01-17/Washington-Times-vraga-v-Rossii

4. The First phone call Trump- Putin discussed on RT
Restoring the countries’ bilateral relationship is underway. Putin and Trump want this – but will it happen? CrossTalking with Dmitry Babich, Edward Lozansky, and Alexander Mercouris
https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/375558-russia-us-phone-call/

5. Emails were leaked, not hacked, according to US intel specialists
William Binney, Ray McGovern, JANUARY 5, 2017, 
<<the alleged interference by Russia and WikiLeaks in the U.S. election, it is a major mystery why U.S. intelligence feels it must rely on "circumstantial evidence," when it has NSA's vacuum cleaner sucking up hard evidence galore. What we know of NSA's capabilities shows that the email disclosures were from leaking, not hacking.>>
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-hacking-intelligence-20170105-story.html

6. Some people are unhappy about Trump's presidency
The Neocon Lament. Nobody wants them in Trump's Washington
PHILIP GIRALDI • JANUARY 24, 2017 
http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/the-neocon-lament/
The think tanks sit around and come up with formulations that benefit certain groups, individuals and corporate interests and then reap the rewards when the cash is handed out at the end of the year. How fantastic it would be to see lobbies and the parasites who work for them put out of business, particularly if our much beloved neoconservatives are simultaneously no longer calling the shots on national security policy and their think tanks are withering on the vine. What a wonderful world it would be.

As a scholar formerly associated with Hoover Institution (it was then just about the only anti-communist think tank in the USA where Alexander Solzhenitsyn did research), I found the article WORTHY to be posted on facebook https://www.facebook.com/vladislav.krasnov

7. Skepticism about Trump's willingeness or ability to change things. 
The Trump Enigma: Is Trump Draining or Replenishing the Washington Swamp?
By Kerry R Bolton | Jan 13, 2017 
<<Does Trump believe he can harness American’s oligarchs for America’s interests, as Putin has done in Russia? Or is Trump simply selling out double-quick, in a revolt against plutocracy that might be the biggest con job since Trotsky returned to Russia courtesy of the U.S. State Department and British Secret Service? How will conflicting views among the White House team be reconciled? Can there be any coherence in the Trump administration? Is Trump out of his depth, blinded by hubris, or does he have a Machiavellian plan?>>
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2017/01/13/the-trump-enigma-is-trump-draining-or-replenishing-the-washington-swamp/

8. RAGA's long-time friend and colleague from Canada, Patrick Armstrong, also cools some hot heads about Trump in his standard JANUARY 26, 2017, RF SITREP
TRUMP’S FOREIGN POLICY. In his inaugural speech he said that other countries were quite right to put their own interests first. Has any other US President in recent decades ever said that? The official site continues the echo of President Adams’ policy to not go abroad to seek out monsters. All to the good – the world has suffered enough from the Exceptionalists – 26 thousand bombs in 2016. However, some things disturb me. I don’t like the hostility towards Iran from him and his team – Iran (much stronger today thanks to the inept machinations of Washington, by the way) may be a concern for Israel and Saudi Arabia, but it isn’t for us; to say Iran is “the foremost state sponsor of terrorism” while ISIS/Daesh is “the greatest threat globally” is not only idiotic but self-contradictory.   https://patrickarmstrong.ca/2017/01/26/russian-federation-sitrep-26-january-2017/

9. RUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP 9 FEBRUARY 2017. BY PATRICK ARMSTRONG
<<Wikipedia says Canada’s GDP is greater than Russia’s and Germany’s is about two and a half times greater. There’s something deeply misleading and, in fact, quite worthless about these GDP comparisons. Russia has a full-service space industry including the only other operating global satellite navigation system.>>
https://patrickarmstrong.ca/2017/02/09/russian-federation-sitrep-9-february-2017/

10. ERIC ZUESSE | 13.01.2017 | has more misgivings about Trump. Trump Team Targets Iran
Maybe the only good thing that one can reasonably say about Donald Trump as U.S. President is that, unlike his electoral opponent Hillary Clinton, he’s not heavily committed to forcing World War III. In fact, unlike her (and President Obama), he’s not (at least not yet) at all committed to conquering Russia. But still, America’s aristocracy rules; only now they’re aiming to conquer Iran, instead of to conquer Russia. 
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/01/13/trump-team-targets-iran.html

11. The latest NEWS is especially disturbing: Russia Considers Returning Snowden to U.S. to ‘Curry Favor’ With Trump: Official. By CYNTHIA MCFADDEN and WILLIAM ARKIN. FEB 11 2017
U.S. intelligence has collected information that Russia is considering turning over Edward Snowden as a "gift" to President Donald Trump — who has called the NSA leaker a "spy" and a "traitor" who deserves to be executed.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/russia-eyes-sending-snowden-u-s-gift-trump-official-n718921

12. My own exchange of letters with Obama at the end of 2016 may seem too old to be relevant. I disagree. Just about all recommendations I offered to Obama have even more validity now, under Trump. You can find this exchange on RAGA site in both English and Russian, but I would like to draw your attention to the site of Ms Sandhya Jain of India who found the exchange interesting enough for her readers. After all, both India and Russia are BRICS members.

An Exchange of Letters with President Obama - I - Vijayvaani
www.vijayvaani.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?aid=4192
Jan 16, 2017 - In this context, historian Vladislav Krasnov had an interesting exchange of letters with 
An Exchange of Letters with President Obama - II - Vijayvaaniwww.vijayvaani.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?aid=4193Jan 17, 2017 - TO: Mr. Barack Obama, POTUS. 
Focused on Russia and the USA, RAGA has a number of peace-minded allies elsewhere.

We value friendship with the UK's Westminster Russia Forum whose president Nicholas Cobb is a long time friend of Russia and also my friend http://westminster-russia.org.uk/about-the-wrf/meet-the-wrf-team/).

Just yesterday I got a letter from another Brit, David Roulston, of 
Oxford Perm Association 
Оксфорд и Пермь — города-побратимы
http://www.oxfordperm-assoc.org/layout.htm.

I have known David since about 2008 when I was visiting my native Perm to promote a Russian cause best known in English thanks to Donald Crawford's excellent book The Last Tsar: Emperor Michael II. Our cause is not for monarchy or against it. The cause is to uncover the Truth from the 73-years of Communist lies to destroy it: Lenin's Bolshevik revolution was not against the Tsars but against the democratically elected Constituent Assembly which Michael II instituted (he ruled for ten hours) and which the Bolsheviks dissolved after loosing the election.

In his letter Dr. Roulston complains about the same we complain in the States: the overwhelming Russophobic lies of the MSM. "Although our association is non political," writes David, "We meet twice  a term to exchange views on 'misleading/false' reporting in the UK and US press of Russia and Putin. I use the ACEWA and Sharon Tennison sites for many of the articles.  I am amazed how bad the UK press is in publishing misleading or false reports - even the Guardian."

I am also glad to introduce Dr. Leo Semashko of St. Petersburg who has been tirelessly working for peace on a global scale 
http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=253

I also introduce Leo's American friend
Professor Rudolf J. Siebert, 
Department of Comparative Religion,
Western Michigan University, Michigan, USA
rsieb3@aol.com
http://www.rudolfjsiebert.org 
http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=51

Below are excerpts of Siebert's letter 
To: Mr. Donald Trump, President of the United States,
Subject: Your Global Peace Paradigm for the US geopolitics, its Christian meaning, and convergence with President Putin’s Global Peace Paradigm of Russia....
   More than 11 years ago, I became a member of the international peacemaking organization Global Harmony Association (GHA: http://peacefromharmony.org). It brings together thousands of individual and collective members from over 60 countries, and has a prominent place in the global civil society. The GHA has published 8 books, and has created more than 50 projects of global peace for 12 years (http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=472). The GHA has created a Global Peace Science (GPS) with the help of 174 co-authors, including the President of India, Abdul Kalam, three Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, and dozens of distinguished scientists and peacemakers from 34 countries, including 59 of them, coming from the US (http://peacefromharmony.org/docs/global-peace-science-2016.pdf). 
...You and President Putin are pragmatists in the best sense of the word, and both of you are the peacemakers, who can make use of the proposed soft-power resources, in your quest to find a new vision, new minds, ideas and approaches (Trump) for your common peace geopolitics...
...Our deep concern is to ensure, that your peace program is not only a pre-election promise, that is easily forgotten, but that it will find its development and validation in a radical change of the US relations with Russia, which recently have reached a very dangerous point in the nuclear standoff.

Dear friends of the Russia & America Good Will Association (www.raga.org) and antiwar colleagues! 

Since RAGA's last Newsletter Antidote 30 (of October 11), the USA got a new President. While re-affirming RAGA's essentially non-political stance, we congratulate Donald Trump on his unexpected victory and wish him success in implementing new peace initiatives he promised in regard to Russia.

We also wish to congratulate American citizens on their ability to resist the anti-Russian slant of the Big Media's and political establishment's neo-con influenced pundits. We hope that our readers see RAGA's contribution to helping move the country into a more realistic, benevolent and sound mood, more conducive to dealing with Russia as a sovereign and proud nation. I take this opportunity to thank many American and non-American authors whose articles I cited in RAGA's newsletters (now available on the internet).

One of them is Sharon Tennison, a long-time antiwar activist (CCISF.org). October 3, 2016 she issued an alert that I quoted in RAGA's previous newsletter: <<We need to flood President Obama with demands to back off of this insane policy to pursue a war with Russia. Call and email daily!>>
Call the White House: 202-456-1111 (9 thru 5 EST)
Email the President: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
 
I responded immediately and pasted my email letter to Obama inside the newsletter.

Meanwhile a Russian woman from the Crimean translators association liked my letter so much that she translated it to Russian
http://www.raga.org/1053105410421054105710581048/4142875

On October 14, Veterans Today ran my Open letter to Obama with an introduction "From Russia with Love" by its staff writer Jonas Alexis. He wrote that <<(Krasnov's) honest letter deserves a fair hearing precisely because New World Order agents have already been beating the war drum against Russia. >>
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/10/14/from-russia-with-love/

On October 21, 2016, I was surprised to find Obama's reply in my email box. Russia Insider posted it as "Obama'sThreatening Russophobic Letter Full of Lies, Hubris and Aggression"
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/read-barack-

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