US Vice President Joe Biden’s plane has touched down in the Ukrainian capitol to meet with US-backed president, Petro Poroshenko, and prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk. If the past is prologue, we should expect a full-fledged assault by Kiev on the breakaway eastern part of the country to begin at anytime.
Biden’s last trip to Ukraine was in April, where he told unelected post-coup prime minister Yatsenyuk that “You will not walk this road alone. We will walk it with you.” Within days of Biden’s assurance of support, Kiev’s offensive on eastern Ukraine markedly intensified. Soon thereafter, artillery shells fell on densely-populated civilian centers killing hundreds at a dramatically increased rate.
The two Ukrainian leaders took power after a US and EU-backed coup overthrew the elected government in February. They are expected to again ask the US administration for the overt provision of deadly force to be used against those seeking independence in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions. The US has thus far declined to overtly provide lethal weapons, though several visits by top CIA officials and US Special Forces suggest that covert assistance and training may already have been provided.
Today, the US government announced that it would increase “non-lethal” aid to the Ukrainian government — aid that includes radars to accurately pinpoint targets in the breakaway east. Senator John McCain, who will soon take over as Chairman of the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee, is furious that the US is not directly arming Kiev and pressing the conflict right up to Russia’s border.
Complete story at - Joe “Greenlight” Biden Lands In Kiev—–So Bombs Will Be Landing Soon On The Women&Children Of Donbas | David Stockman's Contra Corner
Biden’s last trip to Ukraine was in April, where he told unelected post-coup prime minister Yatsenyuk that “You will not walk this road alone. We will walk it with you.” Within days of Biden’s assurance of support, Kiev’s offensive on eastern Ukraine markedly intensified. Soon thereafter, artillery shells fell on densely-populated civilian centers killing hundreds at a dramatically increased rate.
The two Ukrainian leaders took power after a US and EU-backed coup overthrew the elected government in February. They are expected to again ask the US administration for the overt provision of deadly force to be used against those seeking independence in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions. The US has thus far declined to overtly provide lethal weapons, though several visits by top CIA officials and US Special Forces suggest that covert assistance and training may already have been provided.
Today, the US government announced that it would increase “non-lethal” aid to the Ukrainian government — aid that includes radars to accurately pinpoint targets in the breakaway east. Senator John McCain, who will soon take over as Chairman of the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee, is furious that the US is not directly arming Kiev and pressing the conflict right up to Russia’s border.
Complete story at - Joe “Greenlight” Biden Lands In Kiev—–So Bombs Will Be Landing Soon On The Women&Children Of Donbas | David Stockman's Contra Corner
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