The Pentagon and State Department are cooking up a proposal to give Ukraine lethal defensive weapons, according to the Wall Street Journal. The timing of the scoop here seems no accident: on the very same day that U.S. officials were dishing about arming Ukraine, Vice President Mike Pence was doing the rounds in Eastern Europe to reassure Russia’s anxious neighbors. In Estonia, Pence delivered a rousing speech celebrating NATO and denouncing Russia for seeking “to redraw international borders by force.” From there, the Vice President went on to Georgia and Montenegro, both countries that have been on the receiving end of Russia’s aggression.
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The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko (2d right) meets the tank brigade during his working trip to the Luhansk region of Ukraine on April 12.
