Trump Finally Making Real History Through De Facto Alliance With Putin In War Of Conquest

Never in 250 years has the United States so openly supported a murderous dictator’s aggression against a neighbor.

Senior White House Correspondent, HuffPost

For the first time in its 250 years, America is in a de facto alliance with a dictator waging a war of conquest against a neighbour, with President Donald Trump’s unprecedented steps to aid Vladimir Putin’s bloody invasion of Ukraine.

For a president who loves to falsely claim history-making achievements, it’s an accomplishment that will actually make the history books.

“We haven’t. Ever,” said Robert Kagan, a top US State Department official in Ronald Reagan’s White House, who is now with the Brookings Institution, adding that a comparable scenario would have been President Franklin Roosevelt siding with Hitler or Stalin in 1939. “Mind-boggling that we have a president in this position.”

In the past two weeks, Trump has lifted economic sanctions to let Vladimir Putin’s Russia resume making money selling oil products and undermined other sanctions he signed into law only weeks earlier.

His administration has throttled a satellite communications system Ukraine had been using to defend against Putin’s nightly attacks, leading to the deaths of at least hundreds of innocent civilians.

And, according to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, he is now reneging on the delivery of anti-missile interceptors.

“I believe steps have been taken to convince Ukraine to capitulate,” Zelenskyy told........

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