{"id":5317,"date":"2015-02-05T20:10:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T01:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5317"},"modified":"2015-02-05T20:10:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T01:10:17","slug":"ukraine-conflict-why-u-s-arms-could-lead-to-serious-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5317","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine conflict: Why U.S. arms could lead to &#8216;serious trouble&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story-headline\">\n<h3 class=\"story-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/ukraine-conflict-why-u-s-arms-could-lead-to-serious-trouble-1.2946581\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine conflict: Why U.S. arms could lead to &#8216;serious trouble&#8217;<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"story-deck\"><strong>U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Ukrainian president<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For nearly a year now, the U.S. has spurned calls to provide arms to Ukraine in its increasingly bloody conflict with Russian-backed separatists.<\/p>\n<p>But now, officials in the White House are musing openly about sending &#8220;lethal aid&#8221; to Ukraine, which some military analysts believe is the only way to deal with what they see as belligerence from Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/u-s-secretary-of-state-john-kerry-urges-russia-to-commit-to-ukraine-peace-1.2945896\">U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urges Russia to commit to Ukraine peace<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/ukraine-conflict-tilts-u-s-toward-arming-country-against-rebels-1.2945354\">Ukraine conflict tilts U.S. toward arming country against rebels<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Arming Ukraine &#8220;would be a very significant escalation, but it&#8217;s a necessary one,&#8221; says Stephen Blank, senior fellow with the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, D.C., who calls Russia&#8217;s actions in Ukraine &#8220;the greatest threat to international security that we have today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">But there&#8217;s a strong possibility that by arming Ukraine, the U.S. could spur Russia to unpredictable action, says John Mearsheimer, co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine conflict: Why U.S. arms could lead to &#8216;serious trouble&#8217; U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Ukrainian president For nearly a year now, the U.S. has spurned calls to provide arms to Ukraine in its increasingly bloody conflict with Russian-backed separatists. But now, officials in the White House are musing openly about sending [&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":[1319,3171,694,821,834,3228],"class_list":["post-5317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-armaments","tag-john-kerry","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-us","tag-us-intervention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317","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=5317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5318,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions\/5318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}