Posted on 02/10/2015 10:40:46 AM PST by BlatherNaut
Putin’s proxies have taken hundreds of square miles of Ukraine since the last ‘peace deal.’ Top Democrats want their president to give the Ukrainians the weapons to fight back. Hawkish Republicans have leaned on President Obama for the better part of a year to give weapons to Ukraine as it battles Russian-backed separatists. Now it’s members of Obama’s own party—both within Congress and from members of his own administration—that are calling on the president to arm the Ukrainians, before they lose even more territory to the Kremlin’s proxies.
On Capitol Hill there is a renewed sense of urgency: The top-ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, Adam Smith, will join with his Republican counterpart Mac Thornberry on Tuesday to present a bill that would further pressure the president to give the Ukrainian government weaponry, although legislators have yet to spell out the specifics of the bill.
And in the last week, a bevy of Democratic pols and former diplomats have said that the United States should do more.
“Later this week—if it goes any later than that...” Rep. Eliot Engel, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told The Daily Beast on Monday. “They need the weapons, they need them soon, and they need them quick. Our credibility is on the line, and what’s right is on the line,” Engel said.
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The USA should stay out of this.
Good. When the Ukrainians use these weapons to kill the Russian soldiers invading their territory and when Putin has to explain to the people at home why their sons are coming home in body bags then and only then will this war end.
But for now Putin thinks he can get away with invading Ukraine and he’s been right so far. Next up is going to be Belarus and after that it will likely be Estonia.
We got involved when we encouraged Ukraine to divest itself of its nuclear weapons. When we asked them to disarm we took on a moral obligation to support them as a free people just the same as Britain once supported neutral Belgium in WW1.
Ukraine wanted to be part of the EU. Let the EU save their arses.
Arm them NOW!
The EU graduated the UN school of cowardice and pandering. The EU is worthless and should be collapsed.
What vital interest do we have in arming the Ukrainians?
I’m totally serious. Putin has told the people at home that it’s pro-Russian separatists waging this war and that there are no Russian soldiers involved. The families of the Russian soldiers who have died so far have been protesting the war and getting beat up and jailed for their troubles.
Give Putin 15,000 dead soldiers to explain and he’ll be facing a coup and the war will end.
Oh, and your feeble and pathetic attempt at Alinsky-style mockery failed.
A lot of people are not understanding the greater danger that things can escalate rather quickly if we start a proxy war with Russia. Lets just face the facts, they are the masters of dark arts and will not back down. Rather than risk starting WW3 we should help them find a resolution that satisfies both parties and lets move on.
He’s mucked up the Middle East so badly, leaving beheaded Americans behind that he has to divert our attention.
Ukrainians speaking Russian is due to centuries of anti-Ukrainian language policies. It is similar to how the Irish speak English. Eastern Ukrainian support for Russia is heavily overstated by Russian propaganda. Majority of people support Ukraine.
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