Thursday, March 6, 2014

Flashback: Senator Obama pushed bill that helped destroy more than 15,000 TONS of ammunition, 400,000 small arms and 1,000 anti-aircraft missiles in Ukraine

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2573557/Flashback-Senator-Obama-push
ed-destruction-15-000-TONS-ammunition-400-000-small-arms-1-000-anti-aircraft
-missiles-Ukraine.html


"As a U.S. senator, Barack Obama won $48 million in federal funding to help
Ukraine destroy thousands of tons of guns and ammunition - weapons which are
now unavailable to the Ukrainian army as it faces down Russian President
Vladimir Putin during his invasion of Crimea."

Well it seemed like a good idea at the time. The truth was the Ukraine
lacked the money to maintain any of that left over Soviet military equipment
and munitions. So, if most of  it had not been sold off or demilitarized, it
would likely have just moldered into ruin while sitting in storage. That and
stolen. The newly independent Ukraine's armed forces would have to be
re-built from the ground up along Western European lines, if it was to be
able to join NATO as many in the country wanted. In the meantime, the USA
and the EU would guarantee Ukraine's security. Doah!

By Epictetus

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