Obama hasn’t made a decision on arms supplies to Kyiv yet
5 March 2015 – 11:55am
By Vestnik Kavkaza
Barack Obama hasn’t made a decision on arms supplies to Ukraine, according to the US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland. At the same time, she notes that the arms which have already been delivered are effective in battles, for instance, radar-detecting artillery.
According to official data, the USA provided Ukraine with military aid worth $118 million, not including weapons. According to unofficial information, American arms arw being delivered to Ukraine already.
Professor of the Department of World Politics and International Relations of the Russian State Humanitarian University, Vladimir Pryakhin, says that “Ukraine, as part of the political stratagem of American hawks like Zbigniew Brzezinski, has been designated as “target number one.” This is stated in a book which is published in Russian that the main purpose of US policy in Eurasia is to prevent Ukraine’s rapprochement with Russia, because it may interfere with American primacy on the Eurasian continent. Therefore, this issue is now the subject of a sharp struggle between the US and Europe, and just within the United States, and within Europe itself.”
According to Pryakhin’s information, last week, the issue was discussed at a forum on security issues at the OSCE: “It was said there that such a delivery could undermine the foundations of the international system of control over the transfer of arms. However, generals such as Philip Breedlove very specifically view international instruments. You know what they did to Libya. There is even a term invented by them, “murder in the format of Gaddafi.” And they referred to the Security Council resolution, which has no word of approval of bombing of Libya. They were willing to do the same thing in Syria, but Russia raised its hand of protection over the country in exchange for the elimination of Syrian chemical weapons.”
However, Pryakhin points out that the last statement of Kerry is sustained in an entirely different spirit, as Kerry emphasizes the need to implement the agreements of Minsk of 12 February. “And McCain and Breedlove would overturn these agreements, to make Russians fight Ukrainians, in fact, Russians against Russians, just in order to prevent this rapprochement between Russia and Ukraine. They understand that despite these mountains of alluvial hostility, sympathy for Russia is alive within Ukrainian society. There is a centuries-old tradition of living in a joint state and friendship. And this whole Eurasian system of Mr. Brzezinski may fall down. So you need to constantly nurture this hostility. And supplying arms for this is the best way, because a weapon that gets out of control is a source of civil war.”
Professor of the Department of World Politics and International Relations of the Russian State Humanitarian University, Vladimir Pryakhin, stated that regardless of the number of arms supplied to Ukraine, the fact itself destabilizes the situation in the country.