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Ukrainians Unite Behind Zelenskyy After Fight With Trump

Lena Surzhko Harned The Conversation
Some fear disaster, others calmly accept a new reality in U.S.-Ukraine relations. The treatment of Ukraine’s president by Trump and Vance has produced a presumably unintended consequence: It has unified a war-weary Ukrainian people.

Not So Fast on Ukraine

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
Trump’s pitiful pivot to Putin has awakened two sleeping giants—Republican opposition and European unity.

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A Sad Moment in American History

In aligning himself with the dictator of Russia, Vladimir Putin, Trump is not only undermining the independence of Ukraine and its democracy, but showing us the kind of corrupt, oligarchic society he wants the United States to be. 

It Took Trump Only Twenty-Four Days To Sell Out Ukraine

Susan B. Glasser The New Yorker
Trump's first formal phone call with Putin could hardly have been more ominous—a clear sign that the American President who praised Russia’s war on its neighbor as an act of strategic “genius” now intends to force a ceasefire on Putin’s terms.
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