By Patrick Martin
7 February 2015
The Obama administration issued its National Security Strategy document Friday, ostensibly laying out the principles on which its foreign policy will be based for the final two years that Obama occupies the White House.
The document was presented by National Security Adviser Susan Rice at the Brookings Institution on Friday afternoon, no doubt aimed at focusing attention on US threats against Russia over Ukraine. The Obama administration is currently considering providing direct arms to the US-backed regime in Kiev, a move that could lead very quickly to a direct war with Russia, a nuclear-armed power.
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There have been some recent developments on the issue of the US providing arms to the Kiev government in Ukraine. In the first place, it appears they are already providing small arms, which Ukrainian generals are selling to generals close to the Assad government in Syria: https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/breaking-kiev-junta-sells-us-weapons-to-syria/
Secondly both France and Germany have come out in strong opposition to the US providing tanks and heavy artillery to Kiev. This is the main reason why Merkel and Hollande have excluded the US and have gone directly to Moscow to negotiate with Putin:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/11397217/Fears-of-Western-split-over-Ukraine-as-Germany-rebuffs-American-threat-to-send-weapons.html
http://rt.com/news/229783-hollande-merkel-moscow-ukraine/