… from Russia Today, Moscow
[ Editor’s Note: Trump plays Ukraine like a cat with a mouse, pulling another PR coup by getting a new batch of free press coverage on an issue with no downside risk. Who cares about any objections that the current coupmeister puppet government in Ukraine would have about anything, after they way they have raped and pillaged their own country?
Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov is the perfect example of the lunatic Ukie leaders, with his comments that the Republican nominee is a “fringe politician”.
This guy is dumber than dirt, and also one responsible for putting the neoNazi nationalist brigades into the Donbass front lines, where they violate the ceasefire continually while shaking down all the local trade traffic needed to pass through their controlled areas. And yes, that graft gets sent up the line.
This is what we get when organized crime is actually given ministerial positions for political support to a ruling party. Western countries basically do the same, but prefer the more subtle methodology, so the public can pretend it doesn’t know. The hoodlums among us will rule as long as we let them, and that might be forever… Jim W. Dean ]
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– First published … August 01, 2016 –
Senior current and former officials in Ukraine were outraged with US presidential candidate Donald Trump, who called their country “a mess” and said the people of Crimea would rather be with Russia than with Ukraine.
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In an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC’s ‘This Week’, Trump said he would look into how Crimea broke away from Ukraine after a 2013 armed coup and voted in a referendum to rejoin Russia. The current US administration does not recognize the referendum and brands the move an annexation by Russia.
“The people of Crimea, from what I’ve heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were. And you have to look at that also,” Trump said.
He went on to criticize the Obama administration, saying the political crisis in Ukraine happened under the Democrat president’s watch.
“As far as Ukraine is concerned, it’s a mess. And that was under the Obama administration with his strong ties to NATO… Don’t blame Donald Trump for that,” he said.
“I will do better and yet we will have better relationship with Russia – maybe. And having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing.”
Trump says that the US and Russia should join forces to fight terrorism. He also demanded that all NATO members follow the alliance’s defense spending rules the way the US does, threatening to reconsider America’s collective defense commitments otherwise. Critics accuse Trump of bowing down to Russian President Vladimir Putin and betraying America’s allies.
The Republican’s latest statements sparked outrage in Ukraine, which considers the US its most important sponsor and seeks to become a NATO member.
“The shameless statement of US presidential candidate Trump on possible recognition of Crimea as Russia is a diagnosis of a dangerous fringe politician,” Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov wrote on his Facebook page. “He is dangerous for Ukraine and equally for the USA. An outcast bowing down to Putin cannot be the guarantor of democratic freedoms in the US and the world.”
Similar sentiments were voiced by former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk, who accused Trump of “violating ethical and civilizational principles.”
“The United States is the leader of the free world,” he wrote on his Facebook page, claiming that without American leadership the free world “would be destroyed… by dozens of dictators, demagogues and populists.
“The Americans deserve a responsible and wise president and commander-in-chief,” he added. “Donald Trump should seek wise advice from members of the Republican party, who understand freedom, international law and a free world.”
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Jim W. Dean is VT Editor Emeritus. He was an active editor on VT from 2010-2022. He was involved in operations, development, and writing, plus an active schedule of TV and radio interviews. He now writes and posts periodically for VT.
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