{"id":6799,"date":"2015-03-25T05:39:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T10:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6799"},"modified":"2015-03-25T05:39:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T10:39:58","slug":"us-house-votes-348-48-to-arm-ukraine-russia-warns-lethal-aid-will-explode-the-whole-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6799","title":{"rendered":"US House Votes 348-48 To Arm Ukraine, Russia Warns Lethal Aid Will &#8220;Explode The Whole Situation&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-03-24\/us-house-votes-348-48-arm-ukraine-russia-warns-lethal-aid-will-explode-whole-situati\" target=\"_blank\">US House Votes 348-48 To Arm Ukraine, Russia Warns Lethal Aid Will &#8220;Explode The Whole Situation&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Yesterday, in a vote that largely slid under the radar, the House of Representatives passed a resolution urging Obama to send lethal aid to Ukraine, providing offensive, not just &#8220;defensive&#8221; weapons to the Ukraine army &#8211; the same insolvent, hyperinflating Ukraine which, with a Caa3\/CC credit rating, last week\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-03-20\/us-taxpayers-fund-ukraine-bailout-bond-guarantee\">started preparations\u00a0<\/a>to issue sovereign debt with a US guarantee, in essence making it a part of the United States (something the US previously did as a favor to Egypt before the Muslim Brotherhood puppet regime was swept from power by the local army).<\/p>\n<p>The resolution passed with broad bipartisan support by a count of 348 to 48.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.de\/us-house-votes-to-provide-lethal-aid-to-ukraine\/a-18335605\">According to DW<\/a>,\u00a0 the measure urges Obama to provide Ukraine with &#8220;lethal defensive weapon systems&#8221; that would better enable Ukraine to defend its territory from &#8220;the unprovoked and continuing aggression of the Russian Federation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Policy like this should not be partisan,&#8221; said House Democrat Eliot Engel, the lead sponsor of the resolution. &#8220;That is why we are rising today as Democrats and Republicans, really as Americans, to say enough is enough in Ukraine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Engel, a New York Democrat, has decided that he knows better than Europe what is the best option for Ukraine&#8217;s people &#8211; a Europe, and especially Germany, which has repeatedly said it rejects a push to give western arms to the Ukraine army, and warned that Russia under President Vladimir Putin has become &#8220;<strong>a clear threat to half century of American commitment to an investment in a Europe that is whole, free and at peace. 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