"Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war"
Why are Republicans so eager to march to war?
A group of Senate Republicans called on the Obama administration Wednesday to take more aggressive steps toward containing Russian President Vladimir Putin and preventing Russian military aggression in Eastern Europe.
With frustration mounting in Washington over what the administration has described as Russian meddling in Ukraine, the senators proposed legislation that would call on President Obama to provide the Ukrainian military with “direct military assistance” — including anti-tank and anti-aircraft weaponry — while paving the way for more sanctions against Moscow.
Specifically, the “Russian Aggression Prevention Act of 2014” would push the administration to bite down with sanctions against Russia’s state-owned gas monopoly Gazprom, weapons exporter Rosoboronexport and oil giant Rosneft reports the Washington Times.
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The Obama administration already has leveled sanctions against a growing number of Russian officials and corporations over the deteriorating situation in Ukraine, and threatened to expand the sanctions if Moscow does not pull its military and intelligence officials from eastern Ukraine.
“Rather than react to events as they unfold, which has been the policy of this administration, we need to inflict more direct consequences on Russia prior to Vladimir Putin taking additional steps that will be very difficult to undo,” Sen. Bob Corker, Tennessee Republican and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, said in introducing the legislation.
The proposal takes a “three-prong approach to prevent the situation from becoming far worse,” said Mr. Corker, who was joined by 20 other Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and John McCain of Arizona, as the bill’s co-sponsors.
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