U.S. lawmakers have expressed concern that the Obama administration may not be engaged enough in countering what they view as Russia’s bad behavior in Ukraine and Georgia.
“I worry that the message that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin must be taking from our response is that his limit-testing aggression and opportunism is the right approach,” said Democratic Senator Bob Menendez.
At issue is Russia’s 2014 annexation of the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea and its support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Also in 2008, Russia intervened militarily in Georgia, later recognizing the breakaway republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent …read more
Source: Voice of America
