In a surprise visit Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Kyiv, Ukraine on what many reporters described as an attempt to “clean-up” US-Ukraine relationships, which are in a somewhat messy state.
Ukraine has been a central subject of the Trump impeachment trial, which is one reason administration intentions are at doubt. to arm Ukraine, and suggesting that, in and of itself, as an impeachable offense.
Hostility toward Russia is a central piece of American foreign policy dogma, and anything that can be spun as contrary to hostility toward Russia will necessarily be controversial. In this case, it is not arming Ukraine in the exact fashion everyone else envisions.
Pompeo is trying to downplay any administration disconnect on the matter, insisting that Americans, and the administration in particular, value the Ukrainians as a “bulwark against authoritarianism.”
Once it became a political problem, of course, President Trump had every intention of ratcheting up arms shipments to Ukraine going forward, just to prove he is as hostile to Russia as everyone else. Pompeo’s job is only in part to convince the Ukrainians, and in a grander scheme, is meant to make the Ukraine issue blow over within the US as well.
LOL Ukraine with its Nazi behavior is a “bulwark against authoritarianism.”!!!
Check back to 2014 and Nuland and the US Dems overthrowing the elected gov’t and supporting Poroschenko, burning buildings full of opposers to their plan, doing anything to pretend Russia was the aggressor.
Nobody mentions the wicked “annexation” of Crimea, which had the people’s overwhelming support and was ethnically Russian, in the same breath as “ally” Israel’s annexation of Palestinian land and Syrian Golan Heights, fully endorsed by the USA.
anais,,you put that straight to the point, brilliant!!!
I totally agree. The fascists in the Ukraine military, including the infamous Azov battalion, do not deserve any military or humanitarian aid from Washington. That is the irony of this wasted impeachment debate. No military aid should have been sent in the first place. Only a committed war monger like Adam Schiff could fail to see that truth.
True, but the policy debate on arms to Ukraine, and trump’s extortion are separate animals. He had no desire to challenge the policy, just wanted something out of the deal for himself.
Someone should tell Pom Pom and the coward Prez. that the USA citizens need those hundreds of $millions right here in their own suffering communities! 90% of USA citizens could give a damn about Ukraine!!
The DC GHOULS are the true enemy of the rank and file USA citizen and must be dealt with. Patriotism,,,for what? Why? The big load…
Attention Iran: Pompeo is visiting Ukraine. Since we have insisted that you have the resources to spread your terror worldwide, why don’t you prove it by doing to Pompeo what the US did to……
Pompeo is a wasted spitwad….
The main problem in Ukraine is that the US funded and supported the overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically-elected government in 2014 because the US thought it was too friendly towards Russia, and parts of the country have been in turmoil ever since.