Tuesday, February 22, 2022

A presidential loathing for Ukraine is at the heart of the impeachment inquiry

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/a-presidential-loathing-for-ukraine-is-at-the-heart-of-the-impeachment-inquiry/2019/11/02/8280ee60-fcc5-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html

Trump then peppered Volker with his negative views of Ukraine, suggesting that it wasn’t a “real country,” that it had always been a part of Russia, and that it was “totally corrupt.”

Inside the administration, Trump’s top advisers debated the origins of his ill-feeling. Some argued that Trump saw Ukraine as an impediment to better U.S. relations with Russian President Vladi­mir Putin, who was angry about U.S. sanctions imposed on Moscow for its annexation of Crimea and for the Kremlin’s ongoing support of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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1 comment:

  1. Garnel IronheartFebruary 22, 2022 at 4:08 PM

    Oh the desperation. Biden is about to watch helplessly as Ukraine gets invaded and still Trump gets blamed. Never mind that Putin waited until Biden became president to do this.

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