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Re:Ask HN: How to combat propaganda? by ShivShankaran on Monday March 28, 2022 @04:45PM (#30835353)
Also note that until Trump, The US government had an embargo against arming Ukraine due to their extreme Neo Nazi movement.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/380483-congress-bans-arms...

Obama was well aware of it and had 100% hands off approach to arming Ukraine. The process of arming Ukraine started with Trump and continued with Biden when the US government realized they can sell their weapons without hurting any of their lives (the exact same as arming Mujaheddin to fight the Russians)

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Re:Ask HN: How to combat propaganda? by Jiro on Monday March 28, 2022 @05:52PM (#30836082)
That link just says there was an embargo against arming that specific movement in Ukraine, not against arming Ukraine.
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Re:Ask HN: How to combat propaganda? by lern_too_spel on Monday March 28, 2022 @08:03PM (#30837076)
The sibling comment correctly explains why the article doesn't say what you thought it did, that the US had been giving aid to Ukraine since 2014 and only in 2018 specified that none of that aid should go to a particular militia.

The real reason the US didn't arm Ukraine was that it didn't want to provoke Putin into escalating the conflict: https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-ukraine-russia-we...

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