April 22, 2014
Punishing Putin: Why Pentagon is cool to sanctions on Russian arms firm (+video)
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Journalist: Anna Mulrine
As Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Ukraine this week to confer with US allies there, back on Capitol Hill lawmakers are planning some steps of their own to ratchet up pressure on Russia.
These steps involve, notably, proposed sanctions on a state-owned Russian arms manufacturer, which some US lawmakers also accuse of supplying arms to Syria and Iran.
The problem is that Pentagon officials have been quietly asking them to hold off on these measures, because the arms export firm, Rosoboronexport, also supplies the helicopters used by the struggling Afghan Air Force.
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Authors
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David W. Barno
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USA (Ret.)