WWIII WARNING: John McCain & Dick Durbin, Pushing Obama To Send Guns, Anti-Tank and Anti-Aircraft Weapons, And Military Support To Ukraine.

McCain, Durbin urge Obama to send weapons to Ukraine

U.S. senators John McCain and Dick Durbin, two of eight American senators visiting Ukraine this weekend, say they will urge U.S. President Barack Obama to immediately send arms and other military supplies to Ukraine's government for defense against a broader invasion of the nation beyond the already Kremlin-occupied Crimean peninsula.

However, McCain and Durbin's request met with resistance from another visiting U.S. senator, Chris Murphy, who said that Obama is right to carefully consider any decision to send weapons to Ukraine. McCain is a leading Republican and former presidential candidate, while Durbin and Murphy are Democrats.

If he were president, McCain said Ukraine would have already been given weapons and the senator urged Obama to immediately grant the new government in Kyiv the military help that officials are desperately seeking.

"To make it happen, all the president has to do is order it tomorrow," McCain said. "He can have it done tomorrow."

McCain: Ukraine's military needs 'everything'

"Obviously the situation is very tense," McCain said, speaking to journalists in Kyiv late on March 13. "It is unclear what (Russian President) Vladimir Putin will do now, whether he decides to move in eastern Ukraine or not, although he has certainly taken all the steps to facilitate such a step -- the movement of troops and their concentration in western Russia, the largest airborne operation that the Russians have carried out since World War II."

After meeting with interim Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov and interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, McCain said he expects the new government is "not going to accept a significant incursion from Russia into eastern Ukraine. They need very badly military equipment. Under (deposed President Viktor) Yanukovych, their military capabilities, what they had, deteriorated very significantly. They only have a few thousand combat troops and would be overwhelmed by the Russians if it came to that. One of their urgent requests is to have us supply them with weapons. I will be urging our administration to arrange that transfer as quickly as possible."

McCain said that quick military supplies can deter any plans Putin might have of invading.

"I watched during crises in the Middle East where planeloads of arms came within hours literally," McCain said "It's not a problem of getting them in. First of all, they need small arms but they need other military equipment as well. There needs to be a training regimen also. A lot of their military is not well trained, nor ready to fight. That shouldn't prevent us from getting arms to them, not just to defend themeless but as a signal that we are supporting them. I think it's vital to give them arms and I think it's also vital to send a message that we're willing to give them arms with which to defend themselves from an imminent invasion of another party of their country."

McCain said that Ukraine's poor state of military readiness should not be a reason to refuse arms requests from Ukraine's government.

"You might want to ask the people who have had a good chunk of territory taken over by the Russians. I think you should ask the people who are their leaders. Would you like them to throw rocks? Four dead people last night (in Donetesk)," McCain said. "I cannot imagine someone who has nothing to fight with who wouldn't desperately want something to fight with. If that's what they're literally begging for, why should we judge whether we should give it to them or not?"

Besides infantry rifles, McCain said that Ukraine's military needs anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons -- and just about everything else.

"i asked the most senior defense guy in uniform. I asked: What what do you need? He said 'everything," McCain said. "They're desperate for it." He noted a parallel to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, after which the U.S. supplied rebels there with arms. "If we had not given the weapons to the afghans to drive out the russians, they would have not been able to drive out russians. End of story."

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[link to www.kyivpost.com]

Tptb, McCain & Durbin are demanding weapons and the military be sent into the Ukraine for a bloodbath.