“What’s happening with Russia and Ukraine would never have happened under the Trump Administration. At the G-7 summit in 2018, Trump told his counterparts that Crimea should belong to Russia because the people there spoke Russian — repeating comments he’d made as a presidential candidate. Donald Trump, pictured with Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, held up the delivery of U.S. military aid to Ukraine while demanding that Zelensky announce an investigation into Trump's presidential rival Joe Biden. Russian ruler Vladimir Putin, whom Trump repeatedly praised both before and after he took office, has amassed more than 100,000 troops along his border with Ukraine. Absent January 6th, Putin would likely not be preparing to launch the largest offensive in Europe since WWII,” said Alexander Vindman.

Source: Huffington Post January 25, 2022 05:21 UTC