Oregon Governor Kate Brown (D-Portland) fell for a hoax call from Russian pranksters in a video released this week. In the video, Governor Brown says she will talk to her team about providing military assistance to Ukraine in response to the occupation by Russian forces. [More]
Note how "progressives" constantly present themselves as our superiors in intelligence and sophistication...
[Via Michael G]
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As the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact fell apart, the Soviets withdrawing from their old positions made a half hearted attempt to withdraw hundreds of tons of military stores and thousands of personnel back into "friendly" territory. Quite a lot of that material was moved into Ukraine making Ukraine one of the most heavily armed places on earth. Then the unthinkable happened. Ukraine voted to leave the USSR. What followed next, and who was involved, was pretty predictable.
https://fas.org/asmp/campaigns/MANPADS/2005/LugarObama.htm
' “Vast stocks of conventional munitions and military supplies have accumulated in Ukraine. Some of this stockpile dates from World War I and II, yet most dates from Cold War buildup and the stocks left behind by Soviet withdrawals from East Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungry and Poland,” Obama said. “We need to eliminate these stockpiles for the safety of the Ukrainian people and people around world, by keeping them out of conflicts around the world.”
Estimates by the NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency suggest a significant proliferation and public safety threat from the 7 million small arms and light weapons and 2 million tons of conventional ammunition stored in more than 80 depots across Ukraine. These depots were never designed to hold such large stockpiles and remain vulnerable to those seeking such weapons or their components, or to spontaneous detonation in some of the older and larger ammunition stockpiles.
In March, the Foreign Relations Committee added the Lugar Disarmament Initiative (LDI) to the Foreign Affairs Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2006 and 2007. The LDI is modeled on the original Nunn-Lugar Act. Its purpose is to provide the Department of State with a focused response to the threat posed by vulnerable stockpiles of conventional weapons around the world, including tactical missiles and MANPADS. Such missile systems could be used by terrorists to attack commercial airliners, military installations and government facilities in the U.S. and abroad. Reports suggest that Al Qaeda has attempted to acquire these kinds of weapons. In addition, unsecured conventional weapons stockpiles are a major obstacle to peace, reconstruction and economic development in regions suffering from instability.'
Senator Obama, and others, persuaded Ukraine to essentially unilaterally disarm itself, not just of former Soviet nuclear weapons, but of their conventional weapons as well.
And then President Obama left them twisting slowly in the wind.
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