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U.S. To Sell Top Anti-Tank Missiles To Fight 'Russian Aggression' In Ukraine
« on: March 02, 2018, 05:09:42 pm »

Newsweek March 2, 2018

Ukraine’s leader has thanked President Donald Trump and U.S. lawmakers for backing a missile sale that he claims has opened a new front of defense, bolstering the fight against “Russian aggression.”

The former Soviet country has been at war with insurgents since 2014, after its then-president Viktor Yanukovych buckled under the Kremlin’s pressure and scrapped a major deal with the EU at the 11th hour. The move set up a chain of events that has resulted in the deaths of over 10,000 people. Yanukovych fled to Russia, as angry Ukrainians turned out in the thousands to protest his shock decision in a now famous winter standoff on Kiev’s main square. Moscow responded by annexing Ukraine’s Crimea and backing an armed insurgency in the eastern regions known as the Donbas, which border Russia.

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Re: U.S. To Sell Top Anti-Tank Missiles To Fight 'Russian Aggression' In Ukraine
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2018, 05:13:04 pm »
   Didn't Team Trump water down or severely limit this proposal in the GOP Platform prior to his coronation?
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Re: U.S. To Sell Top Anti-Tank Missiles To Fight 'Russian Aggression' In Ukraine
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2018, 05:19:51 pm »
Quote from: corbe on March 02, 2018, 05:13:04 pm
   Didn't Team Trump water down or severely limit this proposal in the GOP Platform prior to his coronation?

According to Byron York, that is not so and that column was posted here:
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Byron York: How pundits got key part of Trump-Russia story all wrong
Byron York

A key talking point in the theory that Donald Trump and the Russians conspired in the 2016 election is the allegation that last summer, during the Republican convention, the Trump campaign changed the GOP platform to weaken its stance on Russia's aggression in Ukraine.

It's been cited many, many times. The only problem is, it's all wrong.

The wildest expression of the theory came, as it often does, from MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, who told viewers on March 8 that "something weird" happened to the GOP platform on "that Ukraine and Russia thing" when the Trump team "jumped right up on that and they insisted that that plank only, that one, had to be taken out, that language could not stand."

Read more at: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-how-pundits-got-key-part-of-trump-russia-story-all-wrong/article/2617802

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Re: U.S. To Sell Top Anti-Tank Missiles To Fight 'Russian Aggression' In Ukraine
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2018, 05:26:13 pm »
   Thanks for the heads up @TomSea
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