What a surprise.
As a US Senator, Barack Obama pushed Ukraine to destroy thousands of tons of guns and ammunition that left them defenseless.
Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko (L), shakes hands with U.S. Senator Richard Lugar, R-Ind., chairman of the U.S. Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, and Barack Obama, D-Ill., during their meeting in Kiev, Ukraine. (Kiev Ukraine)
The Daily Mail reported:
As a U.S. senator, Barack Obama won $48 million in federal funding to help Ukraine destroy thousands of tons of guns and ammunition – weapons which are now unavailable to the Ukrainian army as it faces down Russian President Vladimir Putin during his invasion of Crimea.
In August 2005, just seven months after his swearing-in, Obama traveled to Donetsk in Eastern Ukraine with then-Indiana Republican Senator Dick Lugar, touring a conventional weapons site.
The two met in Kiev with President Victor Yushchenko, making the case that an existing Cooperative Threat Reduction Program covering the destruction of nuclear weapons should be expanded to include artillery, small arms, anti-aircraft weapons, and conventional ammunition of all kinds.
After a stopover in London, the senators returned to Washington and declared that the U.S. should devote funds to speed up the destruction of more than 400,000 small arms, 1,000 anti-aircraft missiles, and more than 15,000 tons of ammunition.
Is this how @BarackObama won his Nobel Peace Prize? http://t.co/aW7RERIIo0 #Ukraine #Russia #Crimea #CrimeaInvasion pic.twitter.com/AnWAJUHnhB
— Ukrainian Updates (@Ukroblogger) March 9, 2014
