Just seven months after Obama was sworn in as a U.S. senator in 2005, he traveled to one of the Ukrainian cities currently under Russian occupation with Sen. Dick Lugar and met with then President Viktor Yushchenko. The men discussed the destruction of Soviet-era weapons. Obama and Lugar argued that the existing Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, mandating the destruction of nuclear weapons, should be amended to include artillery, small arms, antiaircraft weapons, and other munitions. Yushchenko agreed with the senators and they secured $48 million in U.S. funding to destroy 400,000 small arms, 15,000 tons of ammunition and 1,000 antiaircraft missiles. Photographs from the trip show Obama touring a warehouse full of the type of weapons required to repel an advancing Russian invasion.
Many Ukrainians undoubtedly wish they still had some of these weapons. Still, Obama was adamant at the time: “We need to eliminate these stockpiles for the safety of the Ukrainian people and people around the world.” So, the Ukrainian people listened to him and agreed to let American taxpayers fund the destruction of the Donetsk arsenal.
https://www.thetrumpet.com/25287-flashback-obama-disarms-ukraine
Congress at the time also voted against weapons for Ukraine because of the Neo Nazis within the Ukraine military. Who are GREAT now!
Left says
Ottawa truckers were Neo Nazis
Jan 6 protesters were Neo Nazis
But yet these left hypocrites POS support the Neo Nazis in the Ukraine... the country NEEDS them
Many Ukrainians undoubtedly wish they still had some of these weapons. Still, Obama was adamant at the time: “We need to eliminate these stockpiles for the safety of the Ukrainian people and people around the world.” So, the Ukrainian people listened to him and agreed to let American taxpayers fund the destruction of the Donetsk arsenal.
https://www.thetrumpet.com/25287-flashback-obama-disarms-ukraine
Congress at the time also voted against weapons for Ukraine because of the Neo Nazis within the Ukraine military. Who are GREAT now!
Left says
Ottawa truckers were Neo Nazis
Jan 6 protesters were Neo Nazis
But yet these left hypocrites POS support the Neo Nazis in the Ukraine... the country NEEDS them