The president of Ukraine came to Washington Thursday seeking special ally status and lethal aid to fight the Russians. He walked away with neither but declared he was happy to get what he did get, new non-lethal aid.…
Members of Congress pushed the administration to provide lethal military aid and ramped up the pressure Thursday. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted unanimously to urge tougher sanctions against Russia and $350 million in military aid, including anti-tank, anti-armor weapons and ammunition….
Meeting later with Obama, the Poroshenko also asked that the U.S. grant Ukraine a special non-NATO ally designation, such as Japan and Israel have. But he told CNN afterward that Obama turned him down.
Obama said there is already a special status for the level of the cooperation between the U.S. and Ukraine and it’s higher than the non-NATO status, Poroshenko said, adding that he was pleased that he “received more than we asked.”
The White House has resisted escalating the conflict with Russia by providing arms, calling instead for the crisis to be resolved diplomatically.…
Obama did pledge $53 million in new aid, including $46 million in military aid and $7 million in humanitarian aid. The aid includes body armor, helmets, vehicles, night and thermal vision devices and, for the first time, counter-mortar radar equipment that can warn of incoming artillery fire.
The U.S. is providing economic and security assistance to ensure “not only are (Ukrainians) able to weather this storm economically, but they are also going to be able to continue to build up an effective security force to defend themselves from aggression,” Obama told Poroshenko in the Oval Office.McClatchey
Obama declines weapons to Ukraine
Lesley Clark
2 comments:
$106 million? :( Obama's way of telling the Ukrainians to take a hike. Putin will appreciate the restraint Obama shows given the reception in congress and their willingness to blunder into Ukraine full force.
Obama is black and Ukraine gov is neonazi, what would you expect?
On a serious note, is a losing war: USA does not have the will to back it up enough to win it, and Russia would probably strength even more on the long run (it will backfire).Maybe the imbecile in Washington are waking up to this little fact.
But maybe is already too late, once Russia and China have already started to strengthen their partnership there is no way back. USA and the puppet gov of the EU are in a downturn now, propelled by their own self-defeating policies (both in international policy and economic policy at home).
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