Russian President Vladimir Putin today warned Israel against a potential sale of offensive weapons to Ukraine, saying such a move would be “counterproductive” to international efforts to maintain the Ukrainian civil war ceasefire.
Details of the potential weapons shipments are scant, centering around reports at the start of last week that Israel was threatening Russia with such shipments in retaliation for the potential sale of S-300 defensive missiles to Iran.
Before that there wasn’t much indication Ukraine was even seeking to buy arms from Israel, and indeed the virtually bankrupt Ukrainian government isn’t in a good position to buy anything.
Ukraine, like most former Soviet states, is awash in Cold War-era weapons, and while it’s constantly looking for packing in its civil war against the ethnic Russian east, it doesn’t seem like Israeli arms sales would change the situation at all.
then weapons will be used by us-trained gangs, (not at all antisemtic, it says so in their elevator speech) to eject the rabbis from kiev. then there will be hue and cry about how jews are always the victims and intervention is needed and blah blah blah
Jews selling weapons to a Nazis ? It's mind bugling.
Perhaps it is not so strange that Israel would want to sell sophisticated arms to Ukraine – as you point out, Ukraine is broke. I am sure that the Israelis expect Uncle Sam to co-sign the notes. Which he will. For Senators such as McCain or Graham, this is a "BOGO" deal – hurt Putin/Aid Netanyahu at the same time.
Who said anything about Ukraine "buying" these weapons? The Israelis will demand the US Congress buy them for the Ukrainians. You know, to protect the Ukrainian jews who still live there. A purely humanitarian gesture, of course.
Of course they will be not used against the said Ukrainian Jews by the Ukrainian Neo Nazi Militias, until after they have been used against the Sub Human Russian speakers of the East!
Supporting Ukrainian Nazis to protect Ukrainian jews? I think I've heard it all now.
Well, no you haven't! Putin used Cossack mercenaries in Crimea and is using them now in the "sausage". The Cossacks were the people who carried out the pogroms. Putin is thus using people who are almost certainly biological descendants of people who killed Jews down through the centuries, which is probably not the case of the modern Ukrainian far right. Nuland and her neocon friends are in strange company indeed!
As Mr Ditz says, totally unrealistic. Sounds like a scam to divert attention from the fact that the whole trouble started when Victoria Nuland tried to use Putin as a weapon to attack the EU. We're supposed to beleive that Israel is Russia's enemy and therefore could not be in cahoots with the neocons.
409 missiles in Poland and 239 missiles in Romania and on 32 ships in the Mediterranean to protect us from Iran ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????