{"id":6382,"date":"2015-03-10T15:05:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T20:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6382"},"modified":"2015-03-10T15:05:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T20:05:13","slug":"us-sends-over-100-us-tanks-armor-to-latvia-as-nuland-confirms-russia-delivering-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6382","title":{"rendered":"US Sends Over 100 US Tanks, Armor To Latvia As Nuland &#8220;Confirms&#8221; Russia Delivering Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-03-10\/us-sends-over-100-us-tanks-armor-latvia-nuland-confirms-russia-delivering-weapons\" target=\"_blank\">US Sends Over 100 US Tanks, Armor To Latvia As Nuland &#8220;Confirms&#8221; Russia Delivering Weapons<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>No lesser trustworthy character than\u00a0<strong>Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland<\/strong>\u00a0explained this morning that the\u00a0<strong>US can &#8220;confirm&#8221; new Russian weapons delivery to Ukraine<\/strong>\u00a0and that they &#8220;can tell&#8221; when Russia sends in new weapons (though offering no explanation of this statement). This comment to the Senate Committee comes a\u00a0<strong>day after the US delivered &#8216;lethal aid&#8217; to Latvia &#8211; 120 armored units (including tanks)<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; with US Army General John O\u2019Conner who witnessed the tanks arriving on Latvian soil said,\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;Freedom must be fought for, freedom must be defended.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0And finally, one more shot in the eye of the germans, deputy under-secretary of Defense Brian McKeon said the\u00a0<strong>US is &#8220;actively considering\u00a0more\u00a0weapons for Ukraine,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0seemingly implying they alreadt sent some?<\/p>\n<p>The rhetoric is heating up<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>*ASSISTANT SEC. OF STATE NULAND SPEAKS BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE<\/li>\n<li><strong>*U.S. CAN CONFIRM NEW RUSSIAN WEAPONS DELIVERY TO UKRAINE:NULAND<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>*NULAND SAYS U.S. CAN TELL IF RUSSIA SENDS IN NEW WEAPONS<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>*NULAND SAYS UKRAINE LEADERS KNOW IN RACE TO REFORM GOVERNMENT<\/li>\n<li>*DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE BRIAN MCKEON SPEAKS TO SENATE<\/li>\n<li><strong>*U.S. &#8216;ACTIVELY&#8217; CONSIDERING MORE WEAPONS FOR UKRAINE: MCKEON<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And this comes a day after the US delivered lethal aid to Latvia&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Sends Over 100 US Tanks, Armor To Latvia As Nuland &#8220;Confirms&#8221; Russia Delivering Weapons No lesser trustworthy character than\u00a0Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland\u00a0explained this morning that the\u00a0US can &#8220;confirm&#8221; new Russian weapons delivery to Ukraine\u00a0and that they &#8220;can tell&#8221; when Russia sends in new weapons (though offering no explanation of this statement). This [&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":[3807,694,821,827,834,1237,4070,1665],"class_list":["post-6382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-latvia","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-us-senate","tag-us-tanks","tag-victoria-nuland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382","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=6382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6383,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382\/revisions\/6383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}