And how we all got here
The NY Times’ Jim Rutenberg did something I’m surprised no one has done before. He went back and looked at the Russiagate scandal and Trump’s first impeachment documents to see how they look in light of the Ukraine war. It’s astonishing how intertwined they all are, although that’s certainly something that’s obvious when you think about it. Essentially, it’s a story about Ukraine trying to become a modern, independent democracy fighting against the tyrannical oligarch with western allies flummoxed by the danger of becoming enmeshed in their struggle. As the new Cold War between Russia and Europe and America developed, Ukraine was caught in the middle.
Rutenberg went through all the documents of the investigations and the trials and they show that Putin had his sights set on taking Ukraine for years and that Trump and his scandals merely solidified his ambitions. When Putin’s handpicked Ukrainian puppets were defeated and his useful idiot in America failed to get another term, he decided it was time for war.
The details on Manafort are particularly interesting especially since the man who hired him and may be president again, pardoned him for his crimes, which included running interference for Vladimir Putin. Manafort and his Russian handler (and who knows who else) were behind the lie that Ukraine had actually interfered in the 2016 election on behalf of Hillary Clinton which the idiot Trump bought hook line and sinker since it served his purposes. It was one of the main things that made him love and admire Putin so much and made him treat Ukraine like an enemy.
What a tangled web , especially when you think about the fact that Trump stole all those classified documents and he and Kash Patel were plotting something having to do with the Russiagate investigation. God only knows what that was all about.
Read the whole story if you have the time. It’s worth it. It explains why Ukraine has been at the center of American foreign policy for nearly a decade and how Trump made everything worse. But sure, let’s make him president again., What could go wrong?
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