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Ladies gentlemen, there are stories

galore about the Ukraine war.

Sorry to rhyme there.

I'll try to keep that under control. But one question I think

it's possible to retain in the minds of most Americans, which has been stimulated, so to speak,

by some of the rhetoric coming out of Washington.

Why is the U.S. supplying arms and intel to Ukraine?

Now, might be out of the goodness of our hearts and president sorry the felonant has indicated

our hearts may be running out of goodness but O contraram O Frere it's not out of the

goodness of our hearts December 5th 1994 at a ceremony in Budapest, Ukraine joined Belarus and Kazakhstan in giving up their

nuclear arsenals in return for security guarantees from the United States as well as the UK, France, China,

and Russia. According to the BBC, the missiles belonged to the Soviet Union, not to its newly

independent former republics, but a third of the USSR's nuclear stockpile was located on

Ukrainian soil. Handing over the weapons was regarded as a significant moment.

Quote, the pledges on security assurances that we have given these three nations underscore

our commitment to the independence, the sovereignty, and the territorial

integrity of the states, unquote, president at the time, Bill Clinton. And now there's a new

development in that conflict, not widely reported, but Greg Sargent

in the New Republic reports it. The State Barman, I'm quoting him now, has quietly terminated

a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of alleged Russian abductions of Ukrainian children, a potential war crime,

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