Under pressure from the Pentagon, Congress has stripped the spending bill of an amendment that prevented funds from falling into the hands of Ukrainian neo-fascist groups.
Indeed, the Leahy law cannot block funding to groups, no matter how noxious their ideology, in the absence of “credible information” that they have committed human-rights violations.
you gotta follow a series of steps, it's a rules-based international order, sweaty
first you give them a bunch of guns, and only after they use them to do human rights violations you can block their funding (but only if you have like really credible information about that)
you gotta follow a series of steps, it's a rules-based international order, sweaty
first you give them a bunch of guns, and only after they use them to do human rights violations you can block their funding (but only if you have like really credible information about that)