People died while Trump played games with Ukraine's military aid
As the House opens public impeachment hearings into the Ukraine scandal, the bottom-line question is dead simple: Did President Trump, for political reasons, manipulate military aid to an ally in a war that has cost 13,000 lives?
When you think about the Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines of this nasty proxy battle against Russia, the debate becomes more visceral and perhaps less confusing. As Ukrainians were struggling with near-daily shellfire, Trump appeared to treat military aid appropriated by Congress as a personal political tool.
Whats outrageous about the Ukraine story isnt that its a unique example of Trumps fecklessness in foreign policy, but that its so typical. In dealing with Ukraine, Trump has behaved the same erratic, unreliable way he has with the Syrian Kurds, and the South Koreans, and Americas NATO partners in Europe.
Trumps Ukraine machinations have yielded something like what weve seen in these other theaters: the diminution of U.S. power and a corresponding increase in Russias military and diplomatic leverage.
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