{"id":5216,"date":"2015-02-03T07:28:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T12:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5216"},"modified":"2015-02-03T07:28:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T12:28:28","slug":"us-sending-weapons-to-kiev-not-the-answer-to-ukraine-crisis-white-house-adviser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5216","title":{"rendered":"US sending weapons to Kiev \u2018not the answer\u2019 to Ukraine crisis \u2013 White House adviser"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/228795-us-ukraine-weapons-sanctions\/\" target=\"_blank\">US sending weapons to Kiev \u2018not the answer\u2019 to Ukraine crisis \u2013 White House adviser<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Supplying more arms to the Ukrainian government will not solve the crisis in the country, US deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes has stated. According to Rhodes, implementing more sanctions against Russia is the amicable solution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/228435-us-ukraine-defensive-weapons\/\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE: US mulls providing Kiev forces with \u2018defensive\u2019 weapons \u2013 report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Responding to the comments made earlier in the day by US senior administration officials, saying that Washington is looking into providing Kiev with more weapons, Rhodes stated:\u00a0<em>\u201cWe don\u2019t think the answer to the crisis in Ukraine is simply to inject more weapons.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0He made the comments in an interview with CNN on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Instead,\u00a0<em>\u201cthe best way\u201d<\/em>\u00a0lies through imposing more economic sanctions on Russia, the White House official said, blaming the events in the country on\u00a0<em>\u201cRussia\u2019s calculus.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US sending weapons to Kiev \u2018not the answer\u2019 to Ukraine crisis \u2013 White House adviser Supplying more arms to the Ukrainian government will not solve the crisis in the country, US deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes has stated. According to Rhodes, implementing more sanctions against Russia is the amicable solution. READ MORE: US mulls [&hellip;]<\/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":[1610,525,694,821,834,3159,877],"class_list":["post-5216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-kiev","tag-military","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-us","tag-weapons","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216","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=5216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5217,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216\/revisions\/5217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}