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Nuclear Unicorn

(19,497 posts) Tue Mar 25, 2014, 04:58 PM Mar 2014

Reid, Dems drop Ukraine demands

Senate Democrats on Tuesday dropped their demands that International Monetary Fund reforms be included in a Ukraine aid package.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced the change, saying he wanted to ensure that Congress could pass the package quickly.

A fight over the IMF language prevented Congress from taking action on Ukraine before its last recess — and before Russia annexed Crimea, which just two weeks ago remained a part of Ukraine.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/russia/201684-reid-dems-drop-imf-demand#ixzz2x0foAWbO

Truth be told, I'm a little confused on this. Many DUers have expressed concern that the IMF would get its hands into Ukraine's internal affairs. Personally I'm of the opinion that artificial monetary/price policies are suicide but I can sympathize with the argument that surrendering national sovereignty is as well.

What I was NOT prepared for was the fact that -- especially considering Progressive resistance to the IMF -- it was the Senate Democrats that were pushing this.

Now with the IMF out of the way and the ultra-nationalist leader dead I hope the case for Ukraine independence and sovereignty is strengthened.

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Reid, Dems drop Ukraine demands (Original Post) Nuclear Unicorn Mar 2014 OP

That's okay. I wasn't nessecary to the Ukraine stuff. cthulu2016 Mar 2014 #1

What is shocking is the claims that the US had nothing to do with the coup in Ukraine sabrina 1 Mar 2014 #2

cthulu2016

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1. That's okay. I wasn't nessecary to the Ukraine stuff.

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Tue Mar 25, 2014, 04:59 PM

Mar 2014

sabrina 1

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2. What is shocking is the claims that the US had nothing to do with the coup in Ukraine

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Tue Mar 25, 2014, 05:04 PM

Mar 2014

when there is more than enough proof that is not true.

Can someone tell me why the US Congress is even talking about Ukraine at all? Don't we have business right here for them to be discussing?

Is this so that MORE of our tax dollars can go somewhere where the American people get nothing in return?

Who will benefit from this latest 'investment' of the people's money?

It's laughable to claim on the one hand that the Ukraine is independent and the coup was legitimate, nothing to do with us. Then on the other, to see Congress basically following on the State Dept's planning on WHO to install, and getting him, and continuing to interfere in Ukraine.

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