Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on the US Congress on Thursday to give Ukraine a special security status reflecting the highest level of NATO ties with a non-member.<\/p>\n
“We need more military equipment,” Poroshenko said addressing the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. He added that Ukraine needed “lethal aid” too.<\/p>\n
He also urged the US to be forceful in imposing new sanctions against Russia.<\/p>\n
The Ukranian junta leader is expected to meet with US President Barack Obama during his visit. He addressed a joint session of Congress on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Poroshenko beamed as the interventionist and neo-conservative elements of the U.S. Congress, the Obama administration, and the media stood to his attention.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian Defense Minister Defense Minister Valerey Heletey meanwhile announced that NATO countries are delivering weapons to Ukraine for use against the Russian-speaking population of eastern Ukraine. <\/p>\n
A shaky cease fire, negotiated in Minsk, thus struggles to survive as the Scientologist Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s vitriol against Russia continues. <\/p>\n
And while Poroshenko is hyped as a savior of Ukraine in Washington, the chocolate king is facing mounting criticism and dissent back home.<\/p>\n
Poroshenko can expect a similarly warm welcome in Ottawa, where he will address a joint session of the Russophobe Cabinet ministers, before he is voted out of office in Kiev.<\/p>\n
The leader of the war-torn nation will ultimately discover that aspiring NATO leaders have little influence over Washington’s military-industrial complex. He is hailed in the same manner as a low-level colonial governor from a ratty corner of the British Empire had been and niceties will promptly be forgotten after he signs on as a client state.<\/p>\n
People like Poroshenko are treated to diplomatic pomp, including expensive shopping trips, to commit his nation to draconian dictates from NATO, the Pentagon, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, as well as from the hated Eurocrats. They matter not as leaders with visions.<\/p>\n
Europe is being pressured to increase their defense spending to supply fodder for the War Machine. The chocolate king could barely hide his glee as the prospect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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