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Decrying
Trump & Putin in the New Cold War
Stephen F.
Cohen, NYU, Princeton University
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Decrying
Trump & Putin in the New Cold War. Stephen F. Cohen, NYU,
Princeton University. EastWestAccord.com
“…Trump
alarms Americans of Eastern European ancestry for many reasons. Among
them:
He
has suggested that America will only conditionally live up to its
obligations under the NATO charter and questioned the value of the
alliance.
He’s
said he’ll look into whether Putin should be allowed to keep
Crimea, which he annexed with complete disregard for international
law. “Having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a
bad thing,” he said this month.
Just
three weeks ago, Trump pleaded directly with the Russian government
to find and release tens of thousands of Clinton’s private emails.
Asked whether Russian espionage into the former secretary of state’s
correspondence would concern him, he replied: “No, it gives me no
pause.”
Trump’s
campaign chairman until last Friday, Paul Manafort, orchestrated the
ill-fated political comeback of Putin ally Viktor Yanukovych in
Ukraine and is closely linked with other Putin cronies.
At
the Republican National Convention last month, the Trump campaign
stripped the party platform of language calling for the United States
to provide lethal weapons to Ukraine to resist Russian belligerence.
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This is not some silly political issue. The stakes are enormous. My
colleague Andrew Roth reports from Kiev that “Russia is set to hold
large military drills on the peninsula next month. And in eastern
Ukraine, the use of heavy weapons between Russian-backed separatists
and the army has increased as opposing trenches have crept so close
that opposing fighters can shout across the breach. … And in Kiev,
it is not unusual to hear again that Russia is preparing to invade
Ukraine.”
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