Not providing to Ukraine is like Mayor Signer of Charlottesville Trap saying to Whites :  No thxs, you dont get protection ! -    US takes another look at providing lethal weapons to Ukraine

MATTHEW LEE
Associated Press August 14
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking leverage with Russia, the Trump administration has reopened consideration of long-rejected plans to give Ukraine lethal weapons, even if that would plunge the United States deeper into the former Soviet republic's conflict.
 The deliberations put pressure on President Donald Trump, who's fighting perceptions he is soft on the Kremlin amid investigations into whether his campaign colluded with Moscow to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election.
 The proposal, endorsed by the Pentagon and the State Department, reflects his administration's growing frustration with Russian intransigence on Ukraine and a broader deterioration in U.S.-Russian ties. The tensions were seen most recently in Russian leader Vladimir Putin's order for America to eliminate more than half its diplomatic personnel in Russia.
  Awaiting Trump and his closest advisers is an authorization to provide Ukraine with anti-tank and potentially anti-aircraft capabilities, according to U.S. officials familiar with the plan. It's not dramatically different from proposals rejected by President Barack Obama, who feared an influx of U.S. weapons could worsen the violence responsible for more than 10,000 de https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-takes-another-look-providing-lethal-weapons-ukraine-072122677--politics.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-takes-another-look-providing-lethal-weapons-ukraine-072122677--politics.html