NEWSRAEL: Barak Obama was also "worried" (scared!) when Syria went over his "red line" and used chemical warfare against his own people. Interesting enough - he and that Israel-Hater, Robert Malley were not "worried" when they signed the Iran Deal against Israel's warning him clearly, not to.

President Barack Obama on Wednesday said he was cautious about arming and training Ukraine because he was concerned that Russia would invade further.

The former president discussed Russia and Ukraine in an interview with Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg.

Obama dismissed questions about whether he regretted not doing more to defend Ukraine, as the late Sen. John McCain urged his administration to do, when Putin was moving into eastern parts of Ukraine.

“I actually don’t because the circumstances were different,” he replied.

Obama said arming and training Ukrainians at that time could have triggered Russia to invade further.

“We were also concerned about making sure that we did not give an excuse for a further incursion, and a lot of the arguments back then had to do with arming Ukraine which in turn could have provided those kinds of excuses and you had issues of training,” he said.

Obama provided humanitarian aid to Ukraine but resisted sending arms such as anti-tank Javelins and other weapons.