Posted on 03/30/2015 10:16:32 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
The US Congress should override Obama’s veto and force him to send weapons to Ukraine and impose crippling sanctions on Russia. There is bipartisan support for doing so. They should also stop Obama from inking an Iran deal using Russia to do so.
RT (Russia Today) sez: “it’s not about Ukraine! It’s about Florida! Look at Florida! Your soldiers are against you! They’re against the Pope and the Mother Church of Russia!”
[Little Russian public affairs speech there.]
Today must be pseudo day for your medication.
Their country has been dominated by Russian puppets for a decade, now they are being invaded and chopped up by Russia’s desire for empire and you think Ukraine should do something for us??
Why cannot we simply stand on principle that what Russia did and is doing is wrong by all measures, without asking Ukraine for a bribe or whatever?
Ukraine needs tanks and heavy artillery, not training.
A recent report from the Atlantic Council, the Brookings Institution, the Center for a New American Security, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs listed what they think Ukraine needs.
http://www.thechicagocouncil.org/ukraine
“Additional non-lethal assistance should include: counterbattery
radars, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs),
electronic counter-measures for use against opposing
UAVs, secure communications capabilities, armored
Humvees and medical support equipment.
Lethal defensive military assistance should include light
anti-armor missiles, given the large numbers of armored
vehicles that the Russians have deployed in Donetsk and
Luhansk and the abysmal condition of the Ukrainian
military’s light anti-armor weapons.”
Yep, they need heavy weapons and intelligence gathering tech.
Leftists hate to give tanks to help. If Clinton had sent tanks to Somalia with the US Marines,during the latter days of his tenure, the jihad would have been stopped cold. Instead we now have a a coast full of pirates who are a curse on freedom of the seas, sand the spawn of hatred across North Africa.
Obama will never send Ukraine the heavy stuff.He is too busy eye balling his rancid ideology.
Ukraine would be happy getting Javelins as they are constantly bringing their own tanks out of conservation anyway and leftists would not have to pass their invisible “tank barrier”.
I have gathered Javelins and UAVs is what the fight is about now (because the third thing - secure radios are peanuts compared). Both the House and the Senate have passed votes wishing to send these to Ukraine and by now it is only Obama resisting. Sad, but the decision lies in the White House. It wouldn’t be even unpopular as by the poll it has support of both Republican and Democrat men and mainly opposed by Democrat women.
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