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To: dominusobiscum
And God Bless Trump for starting the arming of Ukraine so it could defend itself.

This never happened at all. The Obama and Trump administrations didn't arm Ukraine.

How successive U.S. administrations resisted arming Ukraine
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/obama-trump-biden-ukraine-military-aid-1.6371378

The U.S. has been rushing to arm Ukraine, but for years it stalled on providing weapons
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/02/27/ukraine-us-arms-supply/

19 posted on 05/27/2023 10:32:38 AM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

This is from your first link.
“Then-president Barack Obama, while providing millions of dollars in aid, resisted sending lethal support, fearing that such a military buildup might provoke Putin to strike.”

“Yet in 2018, with Donald Trump as president, the U.S. reversed course and agreed to provide Ukraine with $47 million worth of lethal weapons, which included 210 Javelin anti-tank missiles and 37 launchers.”


This is from your second link.
“After a year of internal debate, Obama declined to provide lethal aid, overruling most of his national security team.”

“But Obama’s refusal to provide lethal weaponry had by that point become a Republican talking point, leading then-Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to charge in 2015 that the “Ukrainians are being slaughtered and we’re sending blankets and meals.”
Four years later, Trump would echo that charge, claiming that while his administration had sent “antitank busters” to Ukraine, Obama had provided only “pillows and sheets.””


21 posted on 05/27/2023 10:52:13 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman
US officials say lethal weapons headed to Ukraine

PUBLISHED SAT, DEC 23 2017

The Trump administration approved a plan to provide lethal weapons to Ukraine

The new arms include American-made Javelin anti-tank missiles

31 posted on 05/27/2023 11:16:44 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

“This never happened at all. The Obama and Trump administrations didn’t arm Ukraine.”

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/lethal-weapons-to-ukraine-a-primer/


43 posted on 05/27/2023 12:56:35 PM PDT by riverdawg
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