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How Putin’s Lies Are Driving the War in Ukraine

The Foreign Affairs Interview

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Putin's Ukraine Impeachment - Is Ukraine Just an Object?

How did the Trump years plan this? How did that shape these dynamics and Putin's decision making? We don't know how Putin analyzes American politics, but the striking thing for me would be Zelensky's position where in the Trump administration, Ukraine is just an instrument to try to set up an American election. That's one more as it were, colonial interpretation of Ukraine. But I mean, my own sense is that Putin would probably think that American public opinion had been prepared as well as it could be by Trump.

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