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Trump undermined the fundamental concept of NATO by making it an explicit pay-for-play, left Ukraine without a US Ambassador from May 2019 until after the invas
by yawpitch 2y ago
Trump undermined the fundamental concept of NATO by making it an explicit pay-for-play, left Ukraine without a US Ambassador from May 2019 until after the invasion, tied frozen military aid (which remained frozen for the rest of his term) to a quid pro quo response on a phone call he was impeached for, repeatedly over many years stroked Putin like one of his microphones, and then shattered the idea of a stable democracy capable of handling a peaceful transition of power.
History will, absolutely, bear out that Putin’s longstanding support for Trump always was a long game power play for Ukraine (and Georgia, and eventually Poland, Lithuania, Finland… there’s a lot of dominoes).
- aguaviva 2y agoLeft Ukraine without a US Ambassador from May 2019 until after the invasion, Biden took over in January 2021.
- yawpitch 2y agoTrump made the post a partisan hot potato that was open to the highest bidder, it took the incoming administration a bit of deliberation to determine how to replace that shit show with someone both sides of a pretty evenly split Senate could approve of… I’m also not blaming Trump for anything that started under Obama’s watch and that he just inherited and didn’t act on immediately.
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- leereeves 2y ago> Trump made the post a partisan hot potato that was open to the highest bidder Which is it? Did he fail to fill the post, or sell it to the highest bidder?