{"id":3164,"date":"2018-03-20T21:12:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T21:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3164"},"modified":"2018-03-20T21:12:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T21:12:17","slug":"what-does-usa-gain-by-arming-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/03\/20\/what-does-usa-gain-by-arming-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT DOES USA GAIN BY ARMING UKRAINE?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sourced: The National Interest<\/p>\n

By Daniel L. Davis<\/p>\n

On March 1, the State Department authorized the sale of 210 Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, applauded the sale because she said it shows the United States is \u201cserious about protecting the interests of our nation,\u201d and will help Kiev \u201cpush back against growing Russian aggression.\u201d It is more likely, however, that this sale will accomplish the opposite.<\/p>\n

The official press release from the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) in regards to the sale claimed that the weapons \u201cwill contribute to the foreign policy and national security of the United States by improving the security of Ukraine.\u201d Yet it is no small distinction to point out that Ukraine is not an ally of the United States, and we must question why improving their security is worth degrading our relations with a nuclear-armed Russia.<\/p>\n

Read more at : http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/the-skeptics\/what-does-america-gain-by-arming-ukraine-24901<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sourced: The National Interest By Daniel L. Davis On March 1, the State Department authorized the sale of 210 Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, applauded the sale because she said it shows the United States is \u201cserious about protecting the interests of our… Continue reading WHAT DOES USA GAIN BY ARMING UKRAINE?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[27,1815,180,243],"class_list":["post-3164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-russia","tag-state-department","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3165,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions\/3165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}