No other living former president would dream of, let alone get away with, lionizing a Russian leader who may soon be waging the biggest war in Europe since World War II after declaring on Monday that Ukraine has no right to exist. But his comments amounted to more than the normal carnival barking and prioritizing of personal obsessions over national interests for which Trump is known.
In the hierarchy of vital news stories on Tuesday, the ex-President’s boastful ramblings pale in significance to the alarming events in Eastern Europe. And Trump tainted Ukrainian democracy himself, seeking to extort President Volodymyr Zelensky into announcing an investigation into his then-Democratic rival, Biden – an abuse of power that earned him the first of his historic two impeachments. Trump once stood side by side with Putin at a Helsinki summit and trashed US intelligence agencies that said Moscow had interfered in the 2016 election to help him. Given that he tried to stage a coup that would have destroyed US democracy, it’s hardly shocking either that he’s not fretting at the loss of Ukrainian freedom. In effect, the ex-President is trying to undermine US foreign policy as the current President tries to stop a war that could kill thousands of people and threaten the post-Cold War peace.īlinken says meeting with Lavrov is off after Russia moves on Ukraineīut it’s unsurprising Trump would praise anything Putin does, given his genuflecting to the Russian leader while in office. The move was a flagrant violation of international law, was resonant of the tyrannical territorial aggrandizement of the 1930s that led to World War II and was, as Biden said on Tuesday, tantamount to “the beginning of a Russian invasion.” Trump was referring to Putin’s declaration on Monday that he would regard two rebel regions of eastern Ukraine, where he has been fostering separatism, as independent and his order for Russian troops, which Putin misleadingly called “peacekeeping” forces, to reinforce the enclaves. That’s the strongest peace force I’ve ever seen. “We could use that on our southern border.
That’s the strongest peace force,” Trump said. I said, ‘How smart is that?’ And he’s going to go in and be a peacekeeper. The ex-President added: “So Putin is now saying, ‘It’s independent,’ a large section of Ukraine. Oh, that’s wonderful,” Trump said in an interview on “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show.” “I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine, of Ukraine, Putin declares it as independent.
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