Ben & Jerry’s Founder ‘Top Donor’ anti Ukraine aid

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A group funded by Ben & Jerry’s founder Ben Cohen is running a media campaign against U.S. military support for Ukraine.

The organization—Eisenhower Media Network (EMN)—has been reaching out to reporters to push claims that the U.S. is spending too much money trying to help Ukraine fight off Vladimir Putin’s invasion.

EMN is a project run by the People’s Power Initiative, a group that counts Cohen as its president and a major backer. The ice-cream mogul and long-time Bernie Sanders campaigner has given more than $1 million to the People’s Power Initiative via the Ben Cohen Charitable Trust, according to public records.

Approached about his role in backing the group, Cohen told The Daily Beast: “I think the U.S. should use its power to negotiate an end to the war, not prolong the death and destruction by supplying more weapons.”

The EMN project promotes a group of U.S. military veterans as experts and pundits willing to talk about the war in Ukraine. Some of them have been echoing Kremlin propaganda lines by claiming that U.S. military support for Ukraine is extending and intensifying the fighting, and suggesting that NATO expansion was one of the causes of the war. “We gave Putin just cause,” the director of EMN, Dennis Fritz, told The Daily Beast in an interview.

This left-wing critique of U.S. policy—which grows out of a deep-rooted anti-war sentiment—brings some on the left into line with the talking points of fringe Republicans such as Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz, who also argue that Washington is overspending in defense of Ukraine.

The Ukrainians are fighting our common enemy--Russia. And, no American soldiers are involved (at least officially). We need to help Ukraine all we can.

Even before the United States entered World War II in December 1941, we sent a LOT of weapons, arms and equipment to the Soviet Union to help them fight against the Nazis.

Without our weapons, the USSR probably would have been defeated.

Obviously, Putin needs to be removed from power. He is mentally unstable, and basically losing it. He pooped his pants and fell down a flight of stairs. It would be best if the Russians took him out themselves. If they won't, then it will be up to NATO and (unfortunately) the USA to take action.

Russia no longer pretends to be a "workers' paradise." Russia is a kleptocracy, and Putin is the world's biggest thief.

Other parts of the former Soviet Union have become wealthy, stable, independent nations, and members of the EU.

If we can take out Putin, then Russia will have a chance, too.