Posted on 12/27/2014 7:19:20 AM PST by opentalk
Victoria Nuland, U.S. secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, said the U.S. has been internally preparing more financial support to Ukraine.
“Senior IMF leadership was in Ukraine this week issuing a public validation of the reform program going forward but also confirming that the program agreed last year is going to need a significant adjustment – that there is a fiscal hole to the tune of $10-15 billion,” Nuland said at the American Enterprise Institute during a discussion examining the Ukrainian revolution one year later.
“We expect that the IMF and the World Bank will have to increase their support for Ukraine but that the United States, Europe and other friends around the world will as well.
...Nuland told the audience the entire structure of procurement and battle management of the Ukrainian military is going to have to be realigned and reformed.
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Clinton got praised for it.
Dubya got braised for it.
Obama is just fazed by it.
Russians consider Crimea theirs. They colonized it and Russian is still the spoken language there. It is home to the black sea fleet and they will fight to defend it. Somehow the deed to Crimea ended up in Kiev but the Russians just are not going to leave. It is a slavic affair and not worth starting a world war over.
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