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Fiona Hill Penned Washington Post Op-ed Against Giving Ukraine Weapons in 2015
Breitbart ^ | 21 Nov 2019 | JOEL B. POLLAK

Posted on 11/21/2019 8:26:54 AM PST by conservative98

Dr. Fiona Hill told the impeachment inquiry Thursday that she was concerned that a hold on aid might endanger Ukraine’s security. But in a 2015 Washington Post op-ed, Hill argued against giving Ukraine any lethal weapons.

Hill was testifying in the seventh public hearing in the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment inquiry. As she had in her closed-door deposition last month, Hill said she was concerned about Ukraine’s security and stability as it defended itself against Russia. In that context, she — and others — were worried about a hold on security.

But Hill also had to admit that she co-authored an op-ed in 2015, when she was working at the left-wing Brookings Institution think tank, in which she opposed sending weapons to help Ukraine.

In her article, titled “How aiding the Ukrainian military could push Putin into a regional war,” Hill argued:

The logic of sending weapons to Ukraine seems straightforward and is the same as the logic for economic sanctions: to change Vladi­mir Putin’s “calculus.” Increasing the Ukrainian army’s fighting capacity, the thinking goes, would allow it to kill more rebels and Russian soldiers, generating a backlash in Russia and ultimately forcing the Russian president to the negotiating table.

We strongly disagree…

It is hard to find effective alternatives to the current sanctions policy, but if we plunge headlong into sending weapons, we may lose our allies, and we may never have the opportunity to get things right.


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That's *DOCTOR* Fiona Hill to you!

1 posted on 11/21/2019 8:26:54 AM PST by conservative98
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Fiona Hill didn’t always support military weapons for Ukraine.  Check this outhttps://t.co/D1E758LEzq— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) November 21, 2019


2 posted on 11/21/2019 8:27:17 AM PST by conservative98
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Mortisha


3 posted on 11/21/2019 8:28:10 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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she is loyal to whoever is paying her this week.


4 posted on 11/21/2019 8:29:52 AM PST by ncfool (Impeachment: The Democrat campaign to re-elect Trump - Keep America Great 2020)
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To: 1Old Pro

Lurch


5 posted on 11/21/2019 8:30:03 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: conservative98

Gee I wonder if anything in Ukraine changed between those two dates.

She also said that it was Russia and not Ukraine that interfered in the 2016 election. Crazy stuff.


6 posted on 11/21/2019 8:30:13 AM PST by babble-on
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To: conservative98

So if she is constantly changing her mind how could the president ever trust her counsel?


7 posted on 11/21/2019 8:30:28 AM PST by McGavin999 (“Look into it” does not mean dig up dirt, it means find the truth)
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To: conservative98

Should she be out in the Daytime ?


8 posted on 11/21/2019 8:31:03 AM PST by butlerweave
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She’s another one who is all over the map.


9 posted on 11/21/2019 8:31:20 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: conservative98

Effected Mid-Atlantic accent.


10 posted on 11/21/2019 8:31:25 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: McGavin999

Hope Jim Jordan brings it up.


11 posted on 11/21/2019 8:34:42 AM PST by conservative98
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To: ClearCase_guy

Are they hitting her up on these inconsistencies?


12 posted on 11/21/2019 8:36:05 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: conservative98

The guy behind her is running her control panel.
Dr Bot


13 posted on 11/21/2019 8:36:23 AM PST by Zathras
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A duckduckgo search shows that she married and had a child, BUT I’m still wondering......


14 posted on 11/21/2019 8:37:32 AM PST by ryderann
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Why the somber look?


15 posted on 11/21/2019 8:37:49 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Please, oh pretty please let Crazy Uncle Joe Biden be the nominee.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Her whole opening statement was about where she was born in England.


16 posted on 11/21/2019 8:39:33 AM PST by babble-on
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To: McGavin999

She is the queen of butthurt. She was excluded from a Trump/Putin meeting because she was a suspected leaker. Trump also once mistook her for a low level aide and accused her of insubordination. She also is an alumni of the left wing think tank, Brookings.


17 posted on 11/21/2019 8:41:25 AM PST by pnut22
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Her whole opening statement was about where she was born in England.

Missed it.

18 posted on 11/21/2019 8:41:44 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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19 posted on 11/21/2019 8:42:11 AM PST by Theo (FReeping since 1998 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: babble-on
She also said that it was Russia and not Ukraine that interfered in the 2016 election.

And you just have to take her word for it because "classified." Not for peon consumption.

20 posted on 11/21/2019 8:42:58 AM PST by Buttons12
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