![]() ![]() ![]() He will cement his control of the Republican Party, leaving Republicans in the Senate and House of Representatives less able to block his bad instincts. Trump is re-elected, he will not have to worry about facing the voters in another election campaign. Senior Pentagon officials scrambled for weeks to offer military justifications for the drawdown, but those that they provided did not survive serious scrutiny. troops from Germany, apparently out of pique at Chancellor Merkel’s refusal to attend a G7 summit at Camp David. In June, he decided to withdraw 10,000 U.S. Trump’s disdain for NATO has long been clear, going back to the 1980s. intelligence community, the Mueller investigation and the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee. presidential election, ignoring the conclusions of the U.S. He apparently thinks that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 U.S. Trump seems incapable of criticizing Vladimir Putin or Russian misdeeds. While his administration has taken a tough line on Russia, Mr. His principal engagement on Ukraine was his attempted extortion of Kyiv to advance his personal political prospects, an effort that led to his impeachment. However, it has never been clear that Mr. military presence in NATO, at least until recently. And it has taken steps to strengthen the U.S. It has applied additional sanctions on Russia, albeit under pressure from Congress. It has provided Kyiv reform and military aid, including lethal military assistance. The Trump administration has largely continued these policies. It has sanctioned Russia for its aggression in Crimea and Donbas and sought to bolster NATO in the face of a growing Kremlin challenge to Western security. Washington thus has provided substantial political, economic and-particularly since 2014-military support to Kyiv. ![]() interest, including in contributing to a more stable and secure Europe. Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama each saw a stable, independent, democratic Ukrainian state with a robust market economy as in the U.S. Since Ukraine regained its independence in 1991, the United States has proven a strong and supportive partner. ![]()
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