{"id":3089,"date":"2014-12-16T14:03:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T19:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3089"},"modified":"2014-12-16T14:03:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T19:03:49","slug":"obama-to-sign-off-on-lethal-us-aid-to-ukraine-by-end-of-week-russian-response-to-follow-zero-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3089","title":{"rendered":"Obama To Sign Off On Lethal US Aid To Ukraine By End Of Week, Russian Response To Follow | Zero Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obama To Sign Off On Lethal US Aid To Ukraine By End Of Week, Russian Response To Follow | Zero Hedge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As we\u00a0reported over the weekend<\/a>, in the tumult surrounding Citigroup’s annexation of Congress with the passage of the theatrically dramatic\u00a0$303 trillion derivative quid-pro-$1.1 trillion spending quo,<\/em>what most missed is that Congress also unanimously passed the\u00a0The Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>which not only expands Russian sanctions (read\u00a0the details here<\/a>) but far more impotantly, provides “lethal assistance to Ukraine\u2019s military<\/strong>.” And as we explained, passage of this law is just the pretext some Russian legislators needed to push for a full-blown, preemptive military incursion in east-Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe decision of the US Senate is extremely dangerous. If it is supported by the House of Representatives and signed by their president, Russia must reply with adequate measures,\u201d Mikhail Yemelyanov of the Fair Russia party told reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n

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“It is quite possible that we should return to the decision by our Upper House and give the Russian president an opportunity to use military force on Ukrainian territory preemptively<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0We should not wait until Ukraine is armed and becomes really dangerous<\/strong>,\u201d the lawmaker stated.<\/p>\n

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Yemelyanov also noted that in his opinion the US Senate\u2019s decision to arm Ukraine had revealed that Washington wasn\u2019t interested in the de-escalation of the Ukrainian conflict. He then said that US actions gave him the impression they was seeking to turn Ukraine into some sort of an \u201cinternational militant targeting the Russian Federation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn a few years Ukraine will turn into a poor and hungry country with an anti-Russian government that will teach its population to hate Russia. They will be armed to the teeth and Ukraine and US reluctance to recognize the Russian Federation within its current borders would always provoke conflicts,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0the MP said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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<\/a><\/a>…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Obama To Sign Off On Lethal US Aid To Ukraine By End Of Week, Russian Response To Follow | Zero Hedge. As we\u00a0reported over the weekend, in the tumult surrounding Citigroup’s annexation of Congress with the passage of the theatrically dramatic\u00a0$303 trillion derivative quid-pro-$1.1 trillion spending quo,what most missed is that Congress also unanimously passed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1272,553,584,694,821,827,862],"class_list":["post-3089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-congress","tag-nato","tag-obama","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3090,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions\/3090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}