Former US ambassador to Ukraine explains how Trump emboldened and permitted Putin's invasion of Ukraine

[ataraxia]

Despite the rightwing propaganda that Trump was a real man's man and someone of whom Putin was afraid- the ambassador explains in detail why it was Trump's policies and approach that led to Putin's invasion of Ukraine.



From the great recession, to Iraq, to the handling of the pandemic, to Ukraine, etc... as always, Dem presidents are left having to clean up all the foreign and domestic policy mess left behind by Republican ones. Wash, rinse, repeat.

 

[noonereal]

Trump was a foreign policy disaster unlike anything we have ever seen.

 

[Monica33]

Unbelievable .

Perhaps the Covid variant Moronic spreads fastest after it crosses the blood- brain barrier .

With the result that idea of Vaxxed Zombies has come true .

 

[Mycroft]

Despite the rightwing propaganda that Trump was a real man's man and someone of whom Putin was afraid- the ambassador explains in detail why it was Trump's policies and approach that led to Putin's invasion of Ukraine.



From the great recession, to Iraq, to the handling of the pandemic, to Ukraine, etc... as always, Dem presidents are left having to clean up all the foreign and domestic policy mess left behind by Republican ones. Wash, rinse, repeat.

She's full of partisan, Trump-hating bullshit.

 

[Lutherf]

Yovanovich? That carries almost as much weight as Schiff or Kinzinger blaming Trump for stuff and things.

 

[ataraxia]

Unbelievable .

Perhaps the Covid variant Moronic spreads fastest after it crosses the blood- brain barrier .

With the result that idea of Vaxxed Zombies has come true .

So we need to wake up and go back to looking for Obama’s secret birth certificate and sticking UV light up our behinds?

 

[CaughtInThe]

Unbelievable .

Perhaps the Covid variant Moronic spreads fastest after it crosses the blood- brain barrier .

With the result that idea of Vaxxed Zombies has come true .

you're a propaganda machine.

 

[Warcok]

Yovanobitch is a disgraced neo-Nazi who tried to spy on Trump and the first family, lied to Congress and spoke ill of the president at cocktail parties to Ukrainian government officials.

 

[j brown's body]

Yovanobitch is a disgraced neo-Nazi who tried to spy on Trump and the first family, lied to Congress and spoke ill of the president at cocktail parties to Ukrainian government officials.

Link?

 

[j brown's body]

"John Sullivan, the deputy secretary of state, said on Wednesday that President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani was involved in a smear campaign to oust the ambassador to Ukraine, publicly confirming a key part of the saga behind the impeachment inquiry."

Link

Based on some of the comments here, the smear campaign had some success.

 

[Lutherf]

"John Sullivan, the deputy secretary of state, said on Wednesday that President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani was involved in a smear campaign to oust the ambassador to Ukraine, publicly confirming a key part of the saga behind the impeachment inquiry."

Link

Based on some of the comments here, the smear campaign had some success.

She lied to the House committee when asked about Hunter.

https://nypost.com/2020/05/15/yovanovitch-may-have-misled-congress-over-burisma-knowledge/

Yovanovitch, who has since left public office, told lawmakers that Burisma “wasn’t a big issue” in the fall of 2016.

“It was not a focus of what I was doing in that six-month period,” she claimed.

But the 160 pages of emails and memos obtained by Citizens United show Yovanovitch was in contact with US officials about Burisma and also met with a representative from the Ukrainian company in her embassy office just 45 days before Trump took office.

“These new records clearly don’t support Ambassador Yovanovitch’s testimony under oath during [Rep. Adam] Schiff’s sham impeachment,” Citizens United president David Bossie told Just The News.

 

[US&THEM]

She's full of partisan, Trump-hating bullshit.

She was hired in 2003, she was ousted out of her job by Rudy and his felons, but yea keep up your partisan bs.

 

[noonereal]

Unbelievable .

Perhaps the Covid variant Moronic spreads fastest after it crosses the blood- brain barrier .

It did. It is called Trumpism.

 

[Indlib]

Unbelievable .

Perhaps the Covid variant Moronic spreads fastest after it crosses the blood- brain barrier .

With the result that idea of Vaxxed Zombies has come true .

What does Trump's socialist vaxx failure have to with the topic?

 

[Indlib]

She lied to the House committee when asked about Hunter.

https://nypost.com/2020/05/15/yovanovitch-may-have-misled-congress-over-burisma-knowledge/

I don't think focus means what you think it means.

 

[ataraxia]

She lied to the House committee when asked about Hunter.

https://nypost.com/2020/05/15/yovanovitch-may-have-misled-congress-over-burisma-knowledge/

No she didn't. She was just a victim of standing in Trump's way when he wanted extort the Ukrainian president into making up dirt on his political opponents before he would help him. This was no different than his "I just want to find 11,000 votes" to the secretary of state in Georgia.

Even the Ukrainians themselves had very recently started looking into the surveillance activities of Giuliani and his cronies against Yovanovich- as a criminal investigation.

Ukraine Launches Probes Into Surveillance Of Ex-U.S. Envoy, Hacking Of Firms

Ukraine has launched separate criminal investigations into the possible surveillance of a U.S. ambassador to Kyiv and the alleged Russian hacking of a gas firm tied to the impeachment proceedings of President Donald Trump.

www.rferl.org

 

[Mycroft]

She was hired in 2003, she was ousted out of her job by Rudy and his felons, but yea keep up your partisan bs.

She lied to Congress during her impeachment testimony.

Marie Yovanovitch Lied to Congress About What She Knew

During the questioning of Marie Yovanovitch by Representative Elise Stefanik, Yovanovitch agreed the Obama administration was concerned about the owner of Burisma and the case against Burisma was never closed. The ambassador knew while working under then-President Obama that there were concerns...

www.independentsentinel.com

She has zero credibility.

 

[US&THEM]

She lied to Congress during her impeachment testimony.

Marie Yovanovitch Lied to Congress About What She Knew

During the questioning of Marie Yovanovitch by Representative Elise Stefanik, Yovanovitch agreed the Obama administration was concerned about the owner of Burisma and the case against Burisma was never closed. The ambassador knew while working under then-President Obama that there were concerns...

www.independentsentinel.com

She has zero credibility.

Yea, you’re all about honesty.

 

[jcgriff2]

Despite the rightwing propaganda that Trump was a real man's man and someone of whom Putin was afraid- the ambassador explains in detail why it was Trump's policies and approach that led to Putin's invasion of Ukraine.



From the great recession, to Iraq, to the handling of the pandemic, to Ukraine, etc... as always, Dem presidents are left having to clean up all the foreign and domestic policy mess left behind by Republican ones. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Next you'll tell us that Trump was dressed as a Nazi Wehrmacht soldier and helped move the gate that opened up the road to Poland on September 1, 1939.

Or perhaps that Trump called all ships into formation in Battleship Row in Pearl Harbor on December 6, 1941, making it easier for the Japanese the next morning.

Where does this lunacy end?

Biden caused Putin to invade because of empty threats and prevented Ukrainian refugees from coming to the US.

Given the 'woke' culture and all the other BS that goes with it under democrat rule, I guess it was the best that Biden could do. Race obviously did trump all then in 2014 just like today in the current democrat administration. After all, we can't not divert all monies possible to take care of all needs of all illegal aliens pouring across Biden's "closed" US/Mexican border along with certain groups of poor(er) Americans, right? But if lighter and from Ukraine - 'keep out/do not enter' the US for now, anyway, we are basically told. Very said and unfair IMO.

 

[reflechissez]

Next you'll tell us that Trump was dressed as a Nazi Wehrmacht soldier and helped move the gate that opened up the road to Poland on September 1, 1939.

Or perhaps that Trump called all ships into formation in Battleship Row in Pearl Harbor on December 6, 1941, making it easier for the Japanese the next morning.

Where does this lunacy end?

Biden caused Putin to invade because of empty threats and prevented Ukrainian refugees from coming to the US.

Given the 'woke' culture and all the other BS that goes with it under democrat rule, I guess it was the best that Biden could do. Race obviously did trump all then in 2014 just like today in the current democrat administration. After all, we can't not divert all monies possible to take care of all needs of all illegal aliens pouring across Biden's "closed" US/Mexican border along with certain groups of poor(er) Americans, right? But if lighter and from Ukraine - 'keep out/do not enter' the US for now, anyway, we are basically told. Very said and unfair IMO.

What are you babbling about?

 

[Craig234]

I have a question. Why didn't Biden make her ambassador again?

 

[HangLow]

Despite the rightwing propaganda that Trump was a real man's man and someone of whom Putin was afraid- the ambassador explains in detail why it was Trump's policies and approach that led to Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

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From the great recession, to Iraq, to the handling of the pandemic, to Ukraine, etc... as always, Dem presidents are left having to clean up all the foreign and domestic policy mess left behind by Republican ones. Wash, rinse, repeat.

i love this woman...
-peace

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[Craig234]

As I asked recently, why didn't Biden re-appoint her?

 

[Craig234]

trump might have stood up to Putin if he were in office when Putin wanted to invade Ukraine. When Putin ordered him to have the US military invade Ukraine for him, trump might have asked if Putin could have Russians help just a little so it looked better.

 

[HangLow]

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