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Anonymous ID: 3dd3bb April 1, 2020, 4:03 p.m. No.8653740   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3770 >>3855 >>3857

I bet Obama was getting cash from Ukrainian ams dealers and energy firms like everyone else.

 

Thoughts?

 

You think he sat by and let everyone else raid the country without taking a piece for himself? It looks like it was a Democrat ATM.

 

Foreign aid and cash back. Simple to explain.

 

"Flashback: Senator Obama pushed bill that helped destroy more than 15,000 TONS of ammunition, 400,000 small arms and 1,000 anti-aircraft missiles in Ukraine"

 

"Obama traveled to Ukraine with Sen. Dick Lugar in 2005 just seven months after he became a senator, touring surplus weapons stockpiles

 

Most of the small arms and ammunition were left over when Soviets withdrew from Eastern bloc nations, and later dumped in Ukraine

The two senators secured U.S. funding to help destroy the weapons instead of leaving them intact

 

Ukraine exported more than 700,000 small arms in 2004-2007, including 101,000 each to Libya and the UK, and 260,000 to the U.S.

 

But most of the ammunition stockpiles – crucial for keeping a standing army battle-ready – were destroyed

 

Ukraine is in a staring match with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has designs on recapturing portions of the former Soviet nation"

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2573557/Flashback-Senator-Obama-pushed-destruction-15-000-TONS-ammunition-400-000-small-arms-1-000-anti-aircraft-missiles-Ukraine.html

 

Brendan Dilley's suspended Twitter account thread from March 2018 follows. It provides additional context.

 

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/974681010297327616.html

Anonymous ID: 3dd3bb April 1, 2020, 4:09 p.m. No.8653855   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>8653740

 

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

 

Lugar and Obama Urge Destruction of Ukrainian Conventional Weapons Stockpiles

 

DONETSK, Ukraine – U.S. Senators Dick Lugar (R-IN) and Barack Obama (D-IL) called for the immediate destruction of 15,000 tons of ammunition, 400,000 small arms and light weapons, and 1,000 man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) or shoulder missile launchers that are often sought by terrorists.

 

Lugar and Obama toured the Donetsk State Chemical Production Plant, a conventional weapons destruction facility where the U.S. has taken the lead in a three-year NATO program to destroy the weapons. Another 117,000 tons of ammunition and 1.1 million small arms and light weapons are slated for destruction within 12 years.

 

So far, the U.S. has contributed $2.1 million to the project, and Austria, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom have contributed $1.2 million.

 

While the destruction is ready to begin, the Ukrainian Rada (parliament) first must pass a law exempting the foreign assistance from taxation. Lugar and Obama discussed this issue with Rada Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn, Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko and President Viktor Yushchenko in meetings yesterday. All three leaders indicated they would promote action before the March 2006 parliamentary elections.

 

https://fas.org/asmp/campaigns/MANPADS/2005/LugarObama.htm