Barack Obama can scarcely veto a bi-partisan pro-Ukraine
bill. He can no longer refuse to
supply weapons to Ukraine because
of his “long-standing concern that arming Ukraine
would provoke Moscow into a further
escalation that could drag Washington
into a proxy war.” The Kremlin has
nothing more to escalate other than an outright attack on Kiev or a NATO country.
An Obama rejection of Ukraine military aid puts him at odds with
powerful Congressional foreign policy voices (Ben Nelson, Sander Levin, Jim
Gerlach, Gerland Connoly, Robert Menendez, John McCain, Bob Corker, to name
just a few), with American foreign-policy (Mike McFaul,
Strobe Talbot,
to name just two) and military (Generals Martin Dempsey, Philip Breedlove et
al.) military establishment figures. A growing consensus agree with former CIA
chief and defense secretary, Leon Panetta, that we must give Ukraine
“the means to defend itself.” Likely presidential candidate and former
secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, also sees the anti-Putin writing on the
political wall. She has described
Putin as “a mortal threat to sovereign European countries and U.S. interests,” to whom we “have
to stand up” and “encircle” and choke off his ability to be so aggressive.”
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