U.S. President Barack Obama apparently is going ahead with his plan
for NATO missiles to be placed in Ukraine aimed against Moscow, but
found a way to do it that won’t violate the warnings by Russia’s
President Vladimir Putin against Washington’s directly supplying those
arms to Ukraine (such as is demanded of Obama by congressional
Republicans, and even by a few hawkish Democrats — all passionate
supporters of Hillary Clinton). Obama’s subordinate (or dependent local
leader), the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, is now arranging to
receive those weapons via a less direct channel; and this arrangement
couldn’t happen if the U.S. White House were opposed to it. The idea
might even have originated inside the White House.
