Your weekly digest of veterans news from Concerned Veterans for America. ͏ ͏
͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
͏ ͏
View in browser
<[link removed]>
||Unsubscribe
<[link removed]>
13 March 2025
Reuters | Russia lays out demands for talks with US on Ukraine, sources say
<[link removed]>
Russia has presented the U.S. with a list of demands for a deal to end its war
against Ukraine <[link removed]> and reset
relations with Washington, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The Hill | Putin adviser says ceasefire gives nothing to Russia, would only
help Ukraine
<[link removed]>
An adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin
<[link removed]> said a U.S.-proposed 30-day
ceasefire gave nothing to Russia and only benefited Ukraine, in one of Moscow’s
first public signs of opposition to a deal Kyiv agreed to on Tuesday.
NPR | A Putin aide rejects Trump's 30-day Ukraine ceasefire proposal
<[link removed]>
As U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff enters talks with Russian officials in
Moscow on a Trump administration proposal Ukraine has already accepted for a
30-day ceasefire
<[link removed]>
, President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov, rejected the
idea.
The Wall Street Journal | South Korea’s Acting President Is Betting on Keeping
U.S. Ties Strong
<[link removed]>
South Korea’s acting president, Choi Sang-mok, hasn’t spoken with President
Trump. But he desperately wants to.
Military Times | US agrees to resume military aid, intel sharing with Ukraine
<[link removed]>
The U.S. is resuming security
<[link removed]>
andintelligence aid
<[link removed]>
to Ukraine after talks between the two countries in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday,
ending a weeklong standoff that threatened to strengthen Russia’s battlefield
position.
Stars & Stripes | VA secretary accuses lawmakers of making the VA a ‘punching
bag,’ pouring billions of dollars into agency without reform
<[link removed]>
Doug Collins, the secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, defended
the mass firing of VA workers last month as the Trump administration’s solution
to making the agency more accountable and responsive to veterans.
Military.com | Supreme Court Upholds VA Court Decision Not to Review
'Benefit-of-the-Doubt' Evidence in Veterans' Claims
<[link removed]>
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against two veterans who argued that their
disability claims were unfairly denied because they did not receive favorable
decisions
<[link removed]>
when the evidence presented in their cases was equal.
Foreign Affairs | Would a Peace Deal in Ukraine Last?
<[link removed]>
|G. John Ikenberry and Harold James
A peace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the
world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in France, European leaders
negotiated new territorial boundaries at the Congress of Vienna, in 1814–15, in
an attempt to establish a stable balance of power on the continent. At the
Paris Peace Conference in 1919, after the end of World War I, participants drew
up plans for the League of Nations, an international body tasked with securing
world peace. And in early 1945, as World War II was winding down,
representatives of 50 countries gathered to draft a charter for a new
organization to replace the ineffective league. The United Nations began its
operations later that year.
Responsible Statecraft | Kurds sign deal in Syria: Case for US troops there
'weaker than ever' <[link removed]> |
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
Amid all of the violence on the Syrian coast this week, there was one
development Monday that may reduce the chaos in the northeast: the new Sunni
leadershiphas struck a deal
<[link removed]>
with the Kurdish-led Syrian Defense Forces to merge with the central
government in Damascus.
The American Conservative | The Afghan Refugee Program Is an Unfixable
Mess—and May Bring the Next Terrorist Attack
<[link removed]>
History will rightly lambast the Biden administration for the tragic and
disastrously managed evacuation from Kabul in 2021. In the wreckage and chaos
of that withdrawal, the Biden administration's National Security Council (NSC)
set up a program to assist Afghans who had worked with U.S. authorities to
leave the country and resettle in the United States. The State Department’s
“Coordinator for Afghan Relocation Efforts” (CARE) has largely managed the
resettlement operation, but not without controversy. Whistleblowers have
credibly alleged that CARE officials have tolerated unacceptable security risks
in resettling unknown Afghans, while also ignoring internal corrupt screening
practices. There is little doubt that CARE has prioritized resettling Afghans
over protecting the American homeland.
Concerned Veterans for America has been vocal on the war in Ukraine. We
believe it is time for a negotiated peace deal.
CVA’s Executive Director, John Vick wrote an opinion piece
<[link removed]>
forForeign Policy, arguing that Trump is right: Zelenskyy and Ukraine need a
negotiated settlement:
The recent, tense oval office meeting between President Trump, Vice President
Vance, and Ukrainian President Zelensky, followed by a pause in U.S. aid and
support have charted a new course for how the U.S. will participate in the war
between Russia and Ukraine. In short, the administration (and President
Zelensky too, per a letter sent to President Trump) are committed to peace and
a negotiated settlement. A realistic understanding of viable options for
Ukraine is tough, but necessary. The longer the war continues, the greater the
chance the Ukrainian military will face a catastrophic collapse that will
result in far greater Russian gains than might have been secured in a
negotiated settlement. As President Trump accurately put it, Ukraine does not
have the cards. And as former President Biden learned, those cards cannot be
purchased with American tax dollars.
For years, the Biden administration’s rhetoric misled Ukraine into imagining
that the United States could supply its war effort indefinitely and that
Americans would be willing to guarantee Ukraine’s security with U.S. troops.
These misconceptions need to be dropped, and this war needs to come to an end.
After what amounted to a moratorium on diplomacy under the Biden
administration, the Trump administration took the correct step of beginning
talks with Russia about how to end the war. Such negotiations will be complex
and difficult, but the Trump administration has thus far demonstrated smart
instincts when it comes to recognizing the reality of the situation. Ukraine is
nearing the end of its rope. Its armies have fought bravely, but are depleted,
demoralized, and exhausted. Ukraine is running out of weapons, munitions, and
soldiers. The West is losing the ability to replenish the former two inadequate
numbers due to the degraded state of our military manufacturing industrial
base. As for manpower, Ukraine faces mass desertions, a failing campaign to
draft its citizens, and reluctance to endanger its future by conscripting 18-22
year-olds. The war has already resulted in an estimated one million casualties.
Read more here.
<[link removed]>
Did someone forward this to you?
Hit the button below to sign up.
SIGN UP ➜
<[link removed]>
Stay connected with CVA:
<[link removed]>
<[link removed]>
<[link removed]>
<[link removed]>
<[link removed]>
Concerned Veterans for America
4201 Wilson Blvd, Suite 1000
Arlington, VA 22203
This email was sent to:
[email protected]
Concerned Veterans for America
is a project of Americans for Prosperity
UNSUBSCRIBE
<[link removed]>
•PRIVACY POLICY
<[link removed]>
•VIEW ONLINE
<[link removed]>
<[link removed]>
