Nominee for U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reaffirmed the Joe Biden administration’s commitment to providing lethal weapons to Ukraine.
He said this during a hearing in the U.S. Senate in response to a question from Republican Senator Ron Johnson, Ukrinform’s own correspondent reports.
“One of the things that Congress has done unanimously is that we have allocated $300 million to provide Ukraine with lethal weapons,” the senator said. He stressed that the Obama administration failed to implement this initiative – unlike the Trump administration.
Asked whether he continues to disagree on the provision of these defensive weapons, or thinks that this decision by the Congress and the Trump administration was correct, Blinken replied: “I support the provision of lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine.”
The nominee for Secretary of State also recalled that he expressed his position in an article for The New York Times three years ago and continues to adhere to it.
As Ukrinform reported, on Tuesday, January 19, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee held hearings to confirm Antony Blinken as Secretary of State in the Joe Biden administration. After hearing in the relevant committee and formulating recommendations on the nominee, the Senate will make a decision by voting.
(c) Ukrinform
That sounds motivating. Let’s see if he will live up to his statement.
He’s not confirmed as Secretary of State yet, but I know he is no lover of Russia.
Where was this conviction in 2014 when Ukraine really needed it? The only thing Biden sent was blankets and Hunter Biden…
Obama screwed Ukraine from the beginning, he didn’t want his nobel peace prize tarnishing. Crippling sanctions would have saved 1000s of lives in Ukraine and Syria.
Definitely. His favorite sickening phrase at the time was, “There is no military solution for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.”
Yet that was exactly what stopped the Russians from taking half Ukraine. Whatafuckingpussy…
Jackboots Merkel definitely said that. Did IRA Joe say it as well?
Oh yes. He said it about Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan and Iran. Perhaps more. I’m sure it is sweeter than Mozart in the Kremlin.
Saying ‘No military solution’ is simply a way to surrender to a fascist power that has just imposed a military solution. Unbelievably fatuous.
I am already concerned about this administration. That factoid about only 20% of white males voting for Biden will lead to incredible divisiveness. The other 80% will feel they were robbed.
I guess it depends which tabloid you read. According to the Guardian, it went the opposite way. Who knows, finding the truth online is becoming harder.
“Put another way, comparing 2016 to 2020, white men shifted 8 percentage points in Biden’s direction this year – helping flip the election towards the Democrats, despite Trump’s significant gains among minorities and women across the board.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/14/joe-biden-trump-black-latino-republicans
Yes that looks the exact opposite. Makes you wonder how Biden won! It looks also as if women are more conservative than men in America. It’s still the case in Britain. Women still voted for Boris despite his reputation as a shagger.
Two weeks ago Biden said, “I am going to focus on COVID relief for struggling black, brown and women-owned businesses.”
So, who is left and why aren’t they a focus too?
At least Nuland is back. I would send her to Ukraine immediately, and have her carry a big box of cookies under her arm when she gets off the plane. Let’s see the Muscovy start whining like they did in 2014.
Just a reminder of Sputnik wetting themselves over Nuland’s cookies.
“Nuland, Konkov noted, is seen “as a rather odious figure, and I think that her image, even long after her departure, will long be associated with interference in the internal affairs of other states.”
“Her image passing out cookies on Maidan Square will be remembered for a long time,” the expert added.”
While we are fond of the memory of Nuland’s cookies, at the time, we would rather have had Javelins, lol…
But those cookies had magical powers. They made Russians disappear. LMAO
Yeah, they turned pro-ruSSian Ukrainians into rabid nationalists ;))