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The US Congress sents Obama an ultimatum to send arms to Ukraine immediately.
The House sent an unmistakable message to President Barack Obama Monday night — send weapons to Ukraine, and send them now.
Congress passed legislation in December authorizing Obama to give Ukraine defensive weapons to protect itself from the ongoing invasion of its country by Russia. But Obama has dithered, and has essentially done nothing other than sending Ukraine about $60 million in non-lethal aid.
Just last week, for example, senior officials admitted that they are still considering whether to send lethal defensive weapons, and haven’t made any decisions on whether to help train Ukrainian troops. More immediately, the Obama administration has watched for more than a month as Russia violates a ceasefire in Ukraine, and seems mostly to be hoping things get better — there are no signs the administration is about to pursue tougher sanctions against Russia at this point.
On Monday night, the House had enough, and passed a Democratic resolution calling on Obama to implement last year’s law by sending Ukraine munitions before it’s too late. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), who sponsored the resolution, warned that failing to act against Russia would put all of Europe on a course similar to what it experienced during World War II.
“We cannot view the crisis in Ukraine as just some faraway conflict or someone else’s problem,” he said. “This war has left thousands of dead, tens of thousands wounded, a million displaced, and has begun to threaten the post-Cold War stability of Europe.
“This war poses the greatest threat to European security since World War II, and we shouldn’t take it lightly, and we shouldn’t be idle, and we shouldn’t sit back, and we shouldn’t let other countries tell us what to do,” he said.
Engel was joined by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), who lamented that Obama has “chosen inaction in the guise of endless deliberation.”
‘The United States Must Stand Up to Putin’: House Dems, GOP Slam Obama’s Inaction in Ukraine | TheBlaze.com
Bear in mind, so far Russia has sent only token amounts of modern arms to NAF. A few T-72B3 tanks mostly. If the US sends arms, then bam in Kornets come. You know what Kornets can do to tanks? These are missiles from hell.
9M133 Kornet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The House sent an unmistakable message to President Barack Obama Monday night — send weapons to Ukraine, and send them now.
Congress passed legislation in December authorizing Obama to give Ukraine defensive weapons to protect itself from the ongoing invasion of its country by Russia. But Obama has dithered, and has essentially done nothing other than sending Ukraine about $60 million in non-lethal aid.
Just last week, for example, senior officials admitted that they are still considering whether to send lethal defensive weapons, and haven’t made any decisions on whether to help train Ukrainian troops. More immediately, the Obama administration has watched for more than a month as Russia violates a ceasefire in Ukraine, and seems mostly to be hoping things get better — there are no signs the administration is about to pursue tougher sanctions against Russia at this point.
On Monday night, the House had enough, and passed a Democratic resolution calling on Obama to implement last year’s law by sending Ukraine munitions before it’s too late. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), who sponsored the resolution, warned that failing to act against Russia would put all of Europe on a course similar to what it experienced during World War II.
“We cannot view the crisis in Ukraine as just some faraway conflict or someone else’s problem,” he said. “This war has left thousands of dead, tens of thousands wounded, a million displaced, and has begun to threaten the post-Cold War stability of Europe.
“This war poses the greatest threat to European security since World War II, and we shouldn’t take it lightly, and we shouldn’t be idle, and we shouldn’t sit back, and we shouldn’t let other countries tell us what to do,” he said.
Engel was joined by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), who lamented that Obama has “chosen inaction in the guise of endless deliberation.”
‘The United States Must Stand Up to Putin’: House Dems, GOP Slam Obama’s Inaction in Ukraine | TheBlaze.com
Bear in mind, so far Russia has sent only token amounts of modern arms to NAF. A few T-72B3 tanks mostly. If the US sends arms, then bam in Kornets come. You know what Kornets can do to tanks? These are missiles from hell.
9M133 Kornet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
