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Power to help
Russia and Ukraine, despite the geographical remoteness, are an important topic for the United States. According to Voice of America, this was stated by the head of the Senate Committee on the Armed Forces of the Republican John McCain. “To his great shame,” he emphasized, “we still have not given Ukraine weapons so that it could protect itself from Russian tanks and armored cars.”
According to McCain, "it makes no sense to analyze the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin and predict his actions." Instead, the senator said, it is necessary to "provide Ukraine with Javelin anti -tank missile systems so that the price of the conflict for Russia has increased significantly."
McCain skeptically appreciated the possible NATO reaction in case of an attempt by Moscow to "protect the interests of the Russian population" in the Baltic countries. According to the Republican, not all members of the alliance will be ready to fight with Russia.
At the same time, the senator noted that the Kremlin’s imperial expansion in Europe requires not so much an arms race as, firstly, energy assistance to European countries from the United States, and secondly, opposition to Russian propaganda.
The removal of the banks of American gas, continued McCain, and two years later he will make Europe energetically independent of Russia.
Speaking about the information war, the senator noticed that Moscow was conducting "a constant, directed, sophisticated propaganda to the Baltic countries, Moldova, Romania, Poland." Having approvingly responding about the activities of the Free Europe radio, McCain, however, noticed that it did not effectively count the Kremlin’s propaganda effectively. “We must eliminate the lag, carry our message, the message of the truth,” the Republican emphasized.
McCain is one of Putin’s most sharp and consistent critics in the West. With the idea of supplying Ukraine, the senator acted earlier to repel Russian aggression earlier. So, in September 2014, he called a shame to the refusal of President Barack Obama to provide such weapons to Kiev.
In February 2015, McCain spoke one of the initiators of the bill "On responsibility for human rights violations named after Sergey Magnitsky," submitted to the US Congress.