Posted on 05/14/2015 5:14:23 AM PDT by McGruff
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has appointed U.S. Republican Senator John McCain as an adviser.
Ukraine's pro-Western authorities are putting together an advisory council to help conduct reforms and build global support for Ukraine.
A decree released by the Ukrainian presidency on May 14 says that pending his agreement, McCain will become a member of the council, along with former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt.
The Advisory International Council of Reforms is to be headed by Mikheil Saakashvili, the fiercely pro-Western former president of Georgia, and will also include Elmar Brok, a member of the European Parliament, and economist Anders Aslund.
McCain, who is a former presidential candidate, tweeted that he would be honored to take up the post, but added that he first had to be cleared by the Senate.
Kyiv is fighting a pro-Russian rebellion in eastern Ukraine that has killed more than 6,000 people since April last year.
Sporadic violence continues despite a shaky cease-fire sealed in February.
This should be illegal.
They think McCain will supply them arms and MANPADs
like he did al Qaeda, or perhaps give them slaves
like he did with ISIS.
Mr. Poroshenko needs to do his research before making such a decision.
Article One section 8 No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign State.
He accepted that without including Lindsey Graham? What will Lindsey do while John is out of the country???
The key phrase is “without consent of Congress.” They’ll give it to him in a flash.
Great, McCain can add the Ukraine to the list of nations he has affected extremely adversely..
Libya, Syria, Iraq, the Ukraine, and possibly others.
Usually you have to be president to do this level of damage.
His photo album looks like reunions with various groups of terrorists.
Arizona, you folks should be ashamed of yourselves. Even Barbara Boxer can’t touch McCain’s level of treachery.
I don't think so.
I don't know. They watch out for each other's backs in Congress.
True, very true.
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