Ukraine, Seeking U.S. Missiles, Halted Cooperation With Mueller Investigation

In those rare times that Trump initially seems to move in a way that would undermine Putin, there tends to be a perfectly reasonable explanation for it or he ends up countermanding the move altogether. The White House lists the names of Russian oligarchs? Those names were pulled from a Fortune 500 list. The White House orders new sanctions? Trump counters that order. We bomb Russian-allied targets in Syria? Putin supplied us with "acceptable" targets in advance.

And about those missiles we supplied Ukraine in its efforts to fight Russian-backed separatist? That now has the worrying appearance of being a quid pro quo move in order to end Ukraine's cooperation with Mueller's investigation.

But there is precedent for this...in Trump's White House. Over a month ago, it also came out that his business threatened the Panamanian government with repercussions if it didn't intervene in the Trump Tower dispute, so there is a pattern of Trump crafting foreign policy to protect his profits and now himself from investigation.

KIEV, Ukraine — In the United States, Paul J. Manafort is facing prosecution on charges of money laundering and financial fraud stemming from his decade of work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine.

But in Ukraine, where officials are wary of offending President Trump, four meandering cases that involve Mr. Manafort, Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman, have been effectively frozen by Ukraine’s chief prosecutor.

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The decision to halt the investigations by an anticorruption prosecutor was handed down at a delicate moment for Ukraine, as the Trump administration was finalizing plans to sell the country sophisticated anti-tank missiles, called Javelins.

The State Department issued an export license for the missiles on Dec. 22, and on March 2 the Pentagon announced final approval for the sale of 210 Javelins and 35 launching units. The order to halt investigations into Mr. Manafort came in early April.

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In another move seeming to hinder Mr. Mueller’s investigation, Ukrainian law enforcement allowed a potential witness to possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia to leave for Russia, putting him out of reach for questioning.

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Cardinal said:

In those rare times that Trump initially seems to move in a way that would undermine Putin, there tends to be a perfectly reasonable explanation for it or he ends up countermanding the move altogether. The White House lists the names of Russian oligarchs? Those names were pulled from a Fortune 500 list. The White House orders new sanctions? Trump counters that order. We bomb Russian-allied targets in Syria? Putin supplied us with "acceptable" targets in advance.

And about those missiles we supplied Ukraine in its efforts to fight Russian-backed separatist? That now has the worrying appearance of being a quid pro quo move in order to end Ukraine's cooperation with Mueller's investigation.

But there is precedent for this...in Trump's White House. Over a month ago, it also came out that his business threatened the Panamanian government with repercussions if it didn't intervene in the Trump Tower dispute, so there is a pattern of Trump crafting foreign policy to protect his profits and now himself from investigation.







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Sadly it doesn't and won't matter to the GOP and it surely doesn't and won't matter to Trump fans. They will gladly defend his actions in whatever way he tells them to.

As long as the GOP owns both houses the US will shove most nations over the side to continue a pro-Russian American foreign policy.

I never thought I'd see the day when Americans would openly support the appeasement of the Kremlin but here we are. In fact, in this thread, some of them will be along shortly to defend and even approve Trump's unending appeasement of Putin and friends.

Cardinal said:

In those rare times that Trump initially seems to move in a way that would undermine Putin, there tends to be a perfectly reasonable explanation for it or he ends up countermanding the move altogether. The White House lists the names of Russian oligarchs? Those names were pulled from a Fortune 500 list. The White House orders new sanctions? Trump counters that order. We bomb Russian-allied targets in Syria? Putin supplied us with "acceptable" targets in advance.

And about those missiles we supplied Ukraine in its efforts to fight Russian-backed separatist? That now has the worrying appearance of being a quid pro quo move in order to end Ukraine's cooperation with Mueller's investigation.

But there is precedent for this...in Trump's White House. Over a month ago, it also came out that his business threatened the Panamanian government with repercussions if it didn't intervene in the Trump Tower dispute, so there is a pattern of Trump crafting foreign policy to protect his profits and now himself from investigation.

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When a country gets involved in war crime after war crime, terrorist act after terrorist act, what do you expect? The US has no business trying to overthrow the governments of sovereign nations. That is a war crime and terrorism and that is what the USA does best.

The US is like, has always been like a band of gangsters threatening other countries, actually determining other countries' foreign policy and internal policies.

The Javelins are in-country. No doubt it's a quid-pro-quo arrangement between Trump and Poroshenko ... who appoints the Prosecutor General.

Cardinal said:

In those rare times that Trump initially seems to move in a way that would undermine Putin, there tends to be a perfectly reasonable explanation for it or he ends up countermanding the move altogether. The White House lists the names of Russian oligarchs? Those names were pulled from a Fortune 500 list. The White House orders new sanctions? Trump counters that order. We bomb Russian-allied targets in Syria? Putin supplied us with "acceptable" targets in advance.

And about those missiles we supplied Ukraine in its efforts to fight Russian-backed separatist? That now has the worrying appearance of being a quid pro quo move in order to end Ukraine's cooperation with Mueller's investigation.

But there is precedent for this...in Trump's White House. Over a month ago, it also came out that his business threatened the Panamanian government with repercussions if it didn't intervene in the Trump Tower dispute, so there is a pattern of Trump crafting foreign policy to protect his profits and now himself from investigation.







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This alone, is why a man with Trump's business & legal conflicts should never be in a position of power within our government.

Chomsky said:

This alone, is why a man with Trump's business & legal conflicts should never be in a position of power within our government.

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We've become so numb to his lies and his abuse of the powers of his office that all we can do is sigh and move on.

Cardinal said:

We've become so numb to his lies and his abuse of the powers of his office that all we can do is sigh and move on.

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Exactly.

He's desensitized us, and likely will change us even further over the upcoming years. And the GOP that aid & abet, both actively and through their silence, claim it's harmless:

"It's just Trump being Trump!".

And my friend, this is how republics change through the years, until you look back and wonder:

"How the hell did we ever get here? How did this happen?"

Well, we're watching how before our very eyes!

Cardinal said:

In those rare times that Trump initially seems to move in a way that would undermine Putin, there tends to be a perfectly reasonable explanation for it or he ends up countermanding the move altogether. The White House lists the names of Russian oligarchs? Those names were pulled from a Fortune 500 list. The White House orders new sanctions? Trump counters that order. We bomb Russian-allied targets in Syria? Putin supplied us with "acceptable" targets in advance.

And about those missiles we supplied Ukraine in its efforts to fight Russian-backed separatist? That now has the worrying appearance of being a quid pro quo move in order to end Ukraine's cooperation with Mueller's investigation.

But there is precedent for this...in Trump's White House. Over a month ago, it also came out that his business threatened the Panamanian government with repercussions if it didn't intervene in the Trump Tower dispute, so there is a pattern of Trump crafting foreign policy to protect his profits and now himself from investigation.







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you must read more about Yanukovich´s "pro-Russian political party in Ukraine" most of them live in Muscovy nowadays , most of them (on the top) are pure mafia man . Ukraine wants to help not sure that it can ...

If only there was a way to blame this on Hillary, the story would better resonate with republicans.

The best thing Hillary can do for her country is to offer herself up as a sacrifice, accept responsibility for everything (especially stuff Trump actually did) -- and then maybe the republican party can begin to heal.

biff_poindexter said:

If only there was a way to blame this on Hillary, the story would better resonate with republicans.

The best thing Hillary can do for her country is to offer herself up as a sacrifice, accept responsibility for everything (especially stuff Trump actually did) -- and then maybe the republican party can begin to heal.

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A country doesn't heal by going full fascist.