Friends of Ukraine, brace yourself. There’s no way to sugar-coat this for the democracy crowd either.Donald Trump has suggested that Ukraine is not our business (it “affects Europe a lot more than it affects us”). Our president-elect admires Russia’s authoritarian leader (he’s “brilliant,” a “strong leader”), and wants Vladimir Putin as an ally (“Russia is killing ISIS”). Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn—one of Trump’s top foreign policy advisers—was paid to attend the tenth anniversary of RT last year and was seated at the event’s gala dinner next to Russia’s president. Candidate Trump himself appeared on the Kremlin’s propaganda channel in …read more
Source: Atlantic Council