Canada needed to help push Washington to maintain Russian sanctions

They’ve been the only effective weapons democracies have given Ukraine in its stand against Russia.
United States Senator John McCain, pictured speaking in Ottawa June 20, 2008, has joined with Democratic and other Republican senators to sponsor a bill to push back against the White House if it eased sanctions on Russia.
The muddled messages from the White House concerning Russia and its disregard of international law should gravely concern democratic states. In Ukraine, this is a matter of national existence and a matter of life and death. To date, the only effective weapons democracies have provided Ukraine in it...

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