Trump campaign guts GOPs anti-Russia stance on Ukraine

[boston bean]

The Trump campaign worked behind the scenes last week to make sure the new Republican platform won’t call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces, contradicting the view of almost all Republican foreign policy leaders in Washington.

Throughout the campaign, Trump has been dismissive of calls for supporting the Ukraine government as it fights an ongoing Russian-led intervention. Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, worked as a lobbyist for the Russian-backed former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych for more than a decade.

Still, Republican delegates at last week’s national security committee platform meeting in Cleveland were surprised when the Trump campaign orchestrated a set of events to make sure that the GOP would not pledge to give Ukraine the weapons it has been asking for from the United States.

Inside the meeting, Diana Denman, a platform committee member from Texas who was a Ted Cruz supporter, proposed a platform amendment that would call for maintaining or increasing sanctions against Russia, increasing aid for Ukraine and “providing lethal defensive weapons” to the Ukrainian military.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trump-campaign-guts-gops-anti-russia-stance-on-ukraine/2016/07/18/98adb3b0-4cf3-11e6-a7d8-13d06b37f256_story.html?utm_term=.31cdb2464c2b

[KewlKat]

1. I remember this. I think we all wondered at the time why? who was the real source of this

change.

[Cha]

2. Right, I remember it, too, awhile ago.. good to remind us

TY boston

[boston bean]

3. welcome Cha!!!

[FarCenter]

4. The acid test will be what happens to Victoria Nuland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Nuland

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Polish-Americans should worry. The IC believes that if the Ukraine falls, Poland goes next.

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Even though Poland is part of NATO, the loss of Poland is deemed an acceptable loss. No NATO action.

A regional conflict with Russia will not start over Poland.


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[TheBlackAdder]

6. Perhaps the Republicans should be framed as the party who wants the New World Order!