Trump is selling out Ukraine, but the tide may be turning

[Kamaji]

Trump is selling out Ukraine, but the tide may be turning

Opinion by John Bolton

Heading into Thanksgiving, Washington’s Ukraine policy had already descended into chaos. Then it got worse.

A leaked phone call appeared to reveal that Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s friend and envoy, had essentially connived against Ukraine by advising Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s foreign-policy adviser, on how to flatter the president.

Neither the Kremlin nor the White House have denied that the call took place. Indeed, Trump has appeared to admit it. I met Ushakov when he was Moscow’s ambassador to Washington during George W Bush’s presidency, working with him then and during Trump’s first term. The transcript strikes me as authentic.

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What is not mysterious is how typically Trumpian it is: no coherent national security strategy, from America’s perspective or Ukraine’s; negotiations conducted haphazardly and asymmetrically, ignorant of facts on the ground; key issues left vague or unresolved; self-defeating deadlines and, like used-car salesmen, endless happy talk of an imminent deal.

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Source:  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-is-selling-out-ukraine-but-the-tide-may-be-turning

[Timber Rattler]

It's pretty obvious (at least to me) that Trump has disengaged and given up, and has told Witkoff and Kushner to bring him a deal, ANY deal no matter the cost, so that he can then jump in front of a mike and claim his Nobel peace prize.  And how they get that deal does not matter...the ends justify the means!

It's disgusting and appalling.