President Barack Obama has yet to decide whether he will sign legislation passed by Congress last week that would allow him to provide weapons to Ukraine’s ramshackle military and increase the penalties on Russia’s energy sector, setting up a confrontation with the GOP-held Congress in the new year.
The Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014 unanimously passed the House and Senate last week. Russian officials, including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, have already urged the president not to sign the bill, calling it “hostile.”
Lavrov may get his wish. Despite the broad support for the measure on Capitol Hill — including among many …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
