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It s been nearly one year since pro-Russian separatists began seizing territory in the Crimean region of Eastern Ukraine, enabling Russia to annex the peninsula and set off months of increasingly bloody clashes between pro-Russian forces and the Ukrainian government. Now, President Obama is coming under increasing pressure from Democrats, Republicans, and former defense and national security officials to do what he has resisted for months: send lethal weapons to the Ukrainian government.The conflict, which largely faded into the background amid more immediate stanley tumblers threats to U.S. security like the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, is taking on renewed urgency as increased fighting between pro-Russian rebels and the Ukrainian military is resulting in more and more civilian deaths. stanley cup Towns become batt stanley taza legrounds in eastern Ukraine 01:56 Those who argue in favor of giving the Ukrainian military better offensive and defensive weapons say they are under no illusions that Ukrainian troops can ever defeat their Russian counterparts. What they can do is make further aggression and escalation so costly for the Russians that they see no choice but move toward a diplomatic solution, Steven Pifer, a former ambassador to Ukraine and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told CBS News. Exwo Obama says he disagrees with transgender bathroom law
ABC News has posted excerpts of Charlie Gibson s interview with GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. The interview is Palin s first since coming onto the national scene, and political watchers will be paying close attention to get a sens stanley mug e of Palin s grasp of the issues and her ability to handle potentially difficult questions. Palin said during the interview that she favors Georgia and Ukraine joining NATO. Gibson pointed out that Putin has said he would not tolerate NATO incursion into the Caucasus, and asked Palin if the U.S. would have to go to war with Russia if that country invaded Georgia once Georgia became a member of NATO. Palin responded, perhaps so. I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO a garrafa stanley lly, is if another country is attacked, you re going to be expected to be called upon and help, she said. Added Palin:What I think is that stanley cup smaller democratic countries that are invaded by a larger power is something for us to be vigilant against. We have got to be cognizant of what the consequences are if a larger power is able to take over smaller democratic countries.And we have got to be vigilant. We have got to show the support, in this case, for Georgia. The support that we can show is economic sanctions perhaps against Russia, if this is what it leads to. It doesn t have to lead to war and it doesn t have to lead, as I said, to a Cold War, but economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, again, counting on our allies
It s been nearly one year since pro-Russian separatists began seizing territory in the Crimean region of Eastern Ukraine, enabling Russia to annex the peninsula and set off months of increasingly bloody clashes between pro-Russian forces and the Ukrainian government. Now, President Obama is coming under increasing pressure from Democrats, Republicans, and former defense and national security officials to do what he has resisted for months: send lethal weapons to the Ukrainian government.The conflict, which largely faded into the background amid more immediate stanley tumblers threats to U.S. security like the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, is taking on renewed urgency as increased fighting between pro-Russian rebels and the Ukrainian military is resulting in more and more civilian deaths. stanley cup Towns become batt stanley taza legrounds in eastern Ukraine 01:56 Those who argue in favor of giving the Ukrainian military better offensive and defensive weapons say they are under no illusions that Ukrainian troops can ever defeat their Russian counterparts. What they can do is make further aggression and escalation so costly for the Russians that they see no choice but move toward a diplomatic solution, Steven Pifer, a former ambassador to Ukraine and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told CBS News. Exwo Obama says he disagrees with transgender bathroom law
ABC News has posted excerpts of Charlie Gibson s interview with GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. The interview is Palin s first since coming onto the national scene, and political watchers will be paying close attention to get a sens stanley mug e of Palin s grasp of the issues and her ability to handle potentially difficult questions. Palin said during the interview that she favors Georgia and Ukraine joining NATO. Gibson pointed out that Putin has said he would not tolerate NATO incursion into the Caucasus, and asked Palin if the U.S. would have to go to war with Russia if that country invaded Georgia once Georgia became a member of NATO. Palin responded, perhaps so. I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO a garrafa stanley lly, is if another country is attacked, you re going to be expected to be called upon and help, she said. Added Palin:What I think is that stanley cup smaller democratic countries that are invaded by a larger power is something for us to be vigilant against. We have got to be cognizant of what the consequences are if a larger power is able to take over smaller democratic countries.And we have got to be vigilant. We have got to show the support, in this case, for Georgia. The support that we can show is economic sanctions perhaps against Russia, if this is what it leads to. It doesn t have to lead to war and it doesn t have to lead, as I said, to a Cold War, but economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, again, counting on our allies
