Despite the vote in the Congress to bar US training to a neo-Nazi Ukrainian militia, the ‘war party’ continues to rattle its sabers over Ukraine
Samatha Power in Kiev yesterday – she’ll give you a “liberal” war
This article originally appeared inThe Nation
On Wednesday the US House of Representatives passed an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Act which prohibits the US from providing arms, training, and other assistance to the neo-Nazi Ukrainian militia, the Azov Battalion.
This development was a welcome respite from the relentless push by the war party, a bipartisan group of legislators, government officials and their allies in the media, which seek conflict with Russia over the crisis in Ukraine, to undermine Secretary of State John Kerry’s diplomatic outreach to Russia in May.
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