http://empr.media/opinion/analytics/four-paths-to-the-hague-for-lpr-and-dpr-terrorists
Posted on 01/30/2015 12:35:40 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
"Eight former U.S. national security practitioners — the two of us, plus former U.S. representative to NATO Ivo Daalder, former undersecretary of defense Michèle Flournoy, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst, former deputy undersecretary of defense Jan Lodal, former NATO European commander James Stavridis and former U.S. European Command deputy commander Charles Wald — come together issuing following recommendations for immediate action. (releasing Monday report: “Preserving Ukraine’s Independence, Resisting Russian Aggression: What the United States and NATO Must Do.”)
First, White House and Congress must commit serious money to Ukraine’s defense: $1 billion in military assistance this fiscal year, followed by additional $1 billion each in fiscal year 2016 and 2017. Congress should not only authorize assistance, as it did in the Ukraine Freedom Support Act last year, but also appropriate funds.
Second, U.S. government should alter its policy and begin providing lethal assistance to Ukraine. Most of the above funds would go to nonlethal assistance. For example, the Ukrainian army desperately needs counter-battery radars to pinpoint the source of enemy rocket and artillery fire, which cause about 70 percent of Ukrainian casualties.
But the Ukrainians also need some defensive arms, particularly light anti-armor weapons. The antitank missiles in the Ukrainian inventory are more than 20 years old, and a large proportion of them do not work. U.S. anti-armor weapons could fill a crucial gap.
Third, the U.S. government should approach other NATO member states about assisting Ukraine, particularly those countries that operate former Soviet equipment and weapons systems compatible with Ukraine’s hardware. If the United States moves to provide lethal assistance, we believe that some other NATO countries will do so as well.
Time is urgent. Spring arrives in three months in eastern Ukraine, and fighting could then achieve new intensity. We should help the Ukrainians deter that."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I’m probably older & I agree with you The Methodist have been greatly influenced by the left-leaning profs left in seminary that were products of 60’s 70’s politics. Being United Methodist, you know then that the General Board of Church & Society is basically ignored. In fact the year I was ordained, a member of the GBSC told me liberals go there to hide out during a Republican administration! That being said, the left has always been greatly over-balanced by the UMC conservative grass roots :)
P.S.
I was born & raised in Detroit. I remember John Kerry [now secretary of state!) came to Wayne State University with his ‘Winter Soldier’ pack of lies! Later when military investigators asked the “winter soldiers” for evidence of all the war crimes they had alleged, they went clintonesk by stonewalling, backtracking, and giving statements that failed to support the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW’s claims)
Check out: http://www.wintersoldier.com/
If interested go to http://www.wintersoldier.com/
Pieter.. This may help:
http://www.umc.org/what-we-believe/foundational-documents
I post pro-life or comment on misc. topics. However, I typically post about Ukraine because I have friends and know suffering under Russian occupation.
‘cuse please... I need to stop posting when running anti-virus/malware!
I post pro-life or comment on misc. topics. However, I typically post about Ukraine because I have friends and know CLERGY currently suffering in Ukraine under Russian occupation.
And look at the appeasers . . . to them everyone is a warmonger and there is a banker behind them pulling the strings.
basic anti-tank munitions aren’t very expensive, if all else fails we could do a lend/lease program. There are ways to help without creating a mountain of debt.
And there’s this link:
http://www.umc.org/what-we-believe/social-principles-social-creed
“To help guide our thinking and acting about how we live in, and are in engaged in ministry in the world, The United Methodist Church has created statements to guide the church in its efforts to create a world of justice.”
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and this...
http://www.umc.org/what-we-believe/economic-community
“We claim all economic systems to be under the judgment of God no less than other facets of the created order. Therefore, we recognize the responsibility of governments to develop and implement sound fiscal and monetary policies that provide for the economic life of individuals and corporate entities and that ensure full employment and adequate incomes with a minimum of inflation. We believe private and public economic enterprises are responsible for the social costs of doing business, such as employment and environmental pollution, and that they should be held accountable for these costs. We support measures that would reduce the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few. We further support efforts to revise tax structures and to eliminate governmental support programs that now benefit the wealthy at the expense of other persons.
Property
We believe private ownership of property is a trusteeship under God, both in those societies where it is encouraged and where it is discouraged, but is limited by the overriding needs of society. We believe that Christian faith denies to any person or group of persons exclusive and arbitrary control of any other part of the created universe. Socially and culturally conditioned ownership of property is, therefore, to be considered a responsibility to God. We believe, therefore, governments have the responsibility, in the pursuit of justice and order under law, to provide procedures that protect the rights of the whole society as well as those of private ownership.
Collective Bargaining
We support the right of all public and private employees and employers to organize for collective bargaining into unions and other groups of their own choosing. Further, we support the right of both parties to protection in so doing and their responsibility to bargain in good faith within the framework of the public interest. In order that the rights of all members of the society may be maintained and promoted, we support innovative bargaining procedures that include representatives of the public interest in negotiation and settlement of labor-management contracts, including some that may lead to forms of judicial resolution of issues. We reject the use of violence by either party during collective bargaining or any labor/management disagreement. We likewise reject the permanent replacement of a worker who engages in a lawful strike.”
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Even Lukashenko in Belarus is worried about the resurrection of Soviet Union 2.0, at least if Putin want to take “his” country:
“If there are some pundits here who believe that the Belarusian land is a part, as they say now, of the so-called ‘Russian world’ or rather Russian… Forget about it. We have always been hospitable to anyone. But we will make everyone to respect our sovereignty and our independence,” he said.
“Somebody thinks that there was no such country… It was not, but now it exists, and this must be considered. And we will not give our land to anyone,” Lukashenko said.
http://www.unian.info/politics/1038195-lukashenko-belarus-is-not-part-of-russian-world.html
“Ukrainian men are fleeing by thousands to Russia from mobilization.”
“The fourth wave of mobilization is problematic,” Ukraine army spokesman, Vladimir Talalay acknowledged on Saturday. “The biggest difficulties are seen in Sumy, Kharkov, Cherkassy, Ternopol, Zakarpatye and other regions.”
Western Ukrainians (Hungarians) are fleeing the conscription in droves.
Unconfirmed reports that Semenchenko (NAZI battalion “Donbas” Commander) was badly wounded in an attempted counter-attack near Uglegorsk.
More on Senemchenko from twitter:
“Donbas” was ambushed by NAF on the road Debaltsevo - Uglegorsk
Sounds like it was Givi’s crew, that was reported to have arrived in Uglegorsk from Donetsk yesterday.
Keep us the F out of it... and out of WWIII. We have our own civil war to wage.
“1 The relationship between the Kremlin and Russian organised crime syndicates around the world is so close as to make the two effectively indistinguishable, said Ben Emmerson QC, counsel for Mrs Litvinenko. The startling truth will be revealed in evidence showing how the Russian mafia is controlled directly from the office of Mr Putin.”
thank you for your post & link
thank you this article. I remember reading something about organized crime & the Putin link earlier
We’ve got our OWN communist insurgency to deal with first, before we worry about Ukraine.
Half the reason we are where we are right now is because we spend too much time and attention on everyone else, while we’re being internally subverted.
If Ukraine wants to be free, let her fight for her own independence, like we had - and have - to.
Stop reading Alex Jones, Commie or Ron Paul websites. The "violence, intimidation" came from the puppet government from Moscow which was beating people up and kidnapping people for months before the Ukrainians came out in force. The "western support" nonsense is the big lie from Moscow and its Communist sympathizers which want us to believe that no Ukrainian in his right mind would actually stand up to his or her government when they are establishing a dictatorship.
Yeah, like the Poles made their bed by not immediately surrendering to the Nazi war machine.
You're not a conservative.
Guess you weren't a fan of the American revolution?
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