For the first time ever, the Trump Administration has approved the direct sale of lethal weapons to the Ukrainian government, expanding on previous sales which had long been restricted purely to non-lethal and defensive systems.
Congress has been pushing for such sales since 2014, as part of a general trend to pick fights with Russia. The Obama Administration resisted such a move, however, because such arms sales would see the US as directly in opposition to the EU-backed Minsk ceasefire for Eastern Ukraine.
Officials say that President Trump didn’t approve everything which was requested by the Ukrainian government, though Congressional officials still warn this is a major step toward confrontation in Ukraine, and predict that more sales will be coming in the future.
Analysts see the most telling aspect of the move as the fact that the administration never “announced” the deal publicly, simply quietly informing Congress about the matter. They appear to at least understand that this move is potentially very provocative internationally, and are taking what is for President Trump a very unusual step in not loudly bragging about their most provocative acts.
Bad news. Mindnumbingly stupid.
Putin’s pet, my ass. We should be so lucky.
Did he realize they didn’t support the US at the UNSC?
John McCain & Lindsey Graham approve this act of supreme statesmanship by President Trump.
See what happens when you interfere in a free society’s election process, I can’t help but to smile. How does that old saying go “Watch what you wish for you just might get it”. Doesn’t Russia know Ronald Reagen was the Republican president that called the Soviets the evil empire Republicans have never been a friend of Russia and are very hawkish and Donald Trump conned those dumb asses into helping him win the presidency and got no guarantee for anything in return or got a bunch of promises he knew he couldn’t deliver. Karma’s a bitch, keep interfering to help get the Republicans elected it’s working out fine for America just don’t understand how it’s helping Russia…
U call us a free society, LOL one of which is spied on by the very govt it claims to be a defense of Liberty. What a joke. Also, look in the mirror when you talk about interfering in the internal affairs of another country. Obama directly meddled in Ukraine by helping the opposition violently overthrow the prior democratically elected govt back in Feb2014. What goes around comes around.
You must think Russia doesn’t do the same thing to it’s citizens, you make me laugh in America we don’t seize the assets of the richest man in the country and imprison him on trumped up charges,we don’t allow our leaders to stay in power for ever, our currency is strong because we are respected by the world and we don’t invade our smaller neighbors because we are stronger. You should practice what you preach before you come at me sideways.
Are you kidding me? You don’t invade your smaller neighbours?! Say that to Mexico, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatamala, Cuba, and the rest of them.
Last time I checked it’s not American citizens leaving there country to invade Mexico or any of those other extremely corrupt and impoverished nations it was those nations citizens that are seeking a better life in what country,say it with me America. Facts. Who’s citizens are invading who’s country? Can’t spin reality unless you’re from North Korea, or Russia where up is down,and right is wrong.
again, you know nothing of the United States. You ever here of the Asset Forfeiture law? Yes, the U.S. govt can seize your assets without due process. Grow up and understand that the swamp who now controls Trump is nothing but a dictatorship cloaked as a peace loving Democracy.
I see military/warmonger hands all over this. The Orange One surrounds himself with ex-generals and forsaken cold war holdovers…what could possibly go wrong?
The story goes Ukraine applied for a license to buy military hardware from the companies that manufacture American military hardware so America is not selling the Ukrainians weapons directly it’s just allowing the people who develop and provide these weapons a broader market to expand there products to, it’s called Capitalism. Just like Russia’s story is there not arming the rebels and there’s no Russian military personnel in Ukraine, America’s is we’re not arming the Ukrainians directly we’re just allowing capitalism to expand in a receptive market. Wait didn’t Russia just go to the Philippines and start selling one of our client states weapons, I guess one good turn deserves another.
Hell, why not allow North Korea to then sell Saudi Arabia Nuclear Weapons? It’s capitalism isn’t it?
Saudi Arabia Doesn’t have nuclear weapons that’s why we’re trying to prevent Iran from obtaining them because, it’ll start a nuclear arms race in the region and those 2 countries would end up using them and destroy the whole damn middle East .
This is totally insane and extremely dangerous.
But did the Trump admin do this because they totally believe in the Ukraine govt and their nazis? Or they lament the end of the Cold War and are working to restart it? Or with US manufacturing so military-heavy now, is it just a cynical economic stimulus program? I guess this is just morbid curiosity, because all the reasons are garbage.
It’s Trump’s way of raising his poll numbers. War Presidents get higher poll numbers.
Supporting Nazis in Ukraine is hardly new. Nuland and the neocons will be over the moon.
Shame on Trump and Shame on the world meddlers of Congress and the deep state, the biggest sh*t disturbers of the world. They gross arrogance never ceases to amaze me. And they complain about a foreign power meddling in our affairs, duh.
Yes, in America, you can sue the government if the government decides to let you sue it, which it occasionally does. So?
My point is there’s recourse read what happened to an environmental activist named Evgenia Chirikova when she stood up to the corrupt Russian government. I wish this site would be fair and balanced and actually report on what the Russians in there country have to endure before they keep pushing the how evil America is narrative, I’m not saying we’re perfect but, read her story and tell me that’s not some bullshit.
You sound just like Tom Cotton.
And you sound just like a troll fresh out the Russian troll factory.
Not a Russian troll, just a well informed old lady who knows that all wars are predicated on lies.
Sure you are. Wink, wink. An old lady in St.Petersburg maybe?
Ha, ha. I’m a former Republican County Chairwoman from a state in the midwest as well as a Reagan alternate delegate to the 1980 and 1984 National GOP Conventions. I have been active in GOP politics since I was a teenage Goldwater Girl in 1964.
In Russia if you try to protect the Khimiki Forest you have your dog killed, your kids threatened with death, and your head gets bashed in but, they let you live, you’ll just never be able to speak again, so you’ll just be an example of what happens when you stand up to the say it with me, corrupt Russian government. No spin real stories, from real Russian citizens. Can this site handle that?
“Can this site handle that?”
Nobody’s stopped you from posting yet, have they?
No sir they haven’t and I appreciate that.