Remember TFG's role in this...

[BlueGreenLady]

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Remember back when President Donald Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Hunter Biden by threatening to withhold military aid if he didn't?

[bottomofthehill]

1. And he was trying to destroy NATO

[Wounded Bear]

2. ...while being "tough" on Putin and Russia...

[FakeNoose]

3. He tried to sell US assistance to Ukraine like a Mafia don

... holding out to see what he could get for it. And Rudy G. was the go-between.

[L. Coyote]

10. "Trump campaign guts GOP's anti-Russia stance on Ukraine"--July 18, 2016

Link to tweet

[BigmanPigman]

4. I wonder if he has communicated with Putin since leaving office.

Maybe he wants to give/sell military secrets.

[wnylib]

6. I'm sure he's already done that, probably

while still in the WH.

[doc03]

7. He said he still talks to Un so no doubt he talks to Putin nt

[ananda]

5. And notice that the invasion has started on President's Day.

Luckily, we have a VERY GOOD president right now!!!!

[OMGWTF]

8. TFG's "trooth" media was supposed to start today; I heard it was very buggy.

Maybe they should have gotten Tom "Bug Man" Delay to run the thing instead of Devin Moonez.

[ananda]

14. LOL.

The only bugs Delay was interested in were the Democrats
whose districts he terminated.

Mine is one of them (Mike McCaul's).

[L. Coyote]

9. On the anniversary of his puppet being deposed in Ukraine.

You know, the dude Manafort helped install for Putin before he switched to installing #FailedCoupGuy. Yanukovych escaped from Kyiv to Kharkiv and then into Russia. 8/8/08 Georgia invasion. Today in Ukraine, 2/22/22.

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[crickets]

13. Bingo. Ukraine was in the crosshairs even before tfg was installed.

Trump Pushed For GOP To Change Ukraine Position, Now Claims He Didn’t
The pro-Russia change was the only party platform tweak the Trump camp cared about, sources say.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-ukraine-putin_n_579e5a56e4b0693164c19e09

[cilla4progress]

11. That's right. This.

https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/

By the account of his lawyer, Paul Manafort went to work in Ukraine in 2005 with the most spotless of intentions. “[He] represented pro-European Union campaigns for the Ukrainians,” the attorney, Kevin Downing, said in a statement. “And in the course of that representation he was seeking to further democracy and to help the Ukrainians come closer to the United States and to the E.U.”

But that’s not how U.S. diplomats saw it at the time. A U.S. embassy cable sent from Kiev to Washington in 2006 described Manafort’s job as giving an “extreme makeover” to a presidential hopeful named Viktor Yanukovych, who had the backing of the Kremlin and most of Ukraine’s wealthiest tycoons. His Party of Regions, the cable said, was “a haven” for “mobsters and oligarchs.”

[Blue Owl]

12. K&R