As the Trump presidency unravels at lightning speed, with Ukraine at the very epicentre of Trump's impending impeachment, the words of John Bolton but a few weeks ago should now be ringing out as a clarion call to President Zelensky.
As RFERL reported,
"U.S. national-security adviser John Bolton (right) says there
is no need for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to "rush" into
any course of action regarding Russia’s involvement with separatist
forces in eastern Ukraine.
...
"I don't suppose that the Europeans are going to have a solution that is readily apparent," he added in reference to the so-called Normandy format of negotiations aimed at ending the Ukraine conflict." (RFERL : 27 Aug 2019) (my emphasis)
The tidal wave of Trump's illegal political machinations, from the very first day he triumphantly strode into the White House, centred around the lifting of the millstone of sanctions around Putin's neck.
These sanctions were placed around Putin's neck by the EU and the US because of his illegal invasion and annexation of Crimea, and his ongoing war with Ukraine in the Donbas.
What is now been revealed, moment by moment, is just how many of Trump's senior advisors and appointees have become accomplices in his illegal actions.
Then there is the US Attorney General, William Barr (left), and the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo (right), whom we now learn were central actors in the unfolding of Trump's attempt to 'shake down' President Zelensky to dish dirt on Joe Biden in exchange for, amongst other things, Javelin missiles to protect Ukraine from Putin's tanks in the Donbas.
(to be continued)
As RFERL reported,
"U.S. national-security adviser John Bolton (right) says there
is no need for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to "rush" into
any course of action regarding Russia’s involvement with separatist
forces in eastern Ukraine....
"I don't suppose that the Europeans are going to have a solution that is readily apparent," he added in reference to the so-called Normandy format of negotiations aimed at ending the Ukraine conflict." (RFERL : 27 Aug 2019) (my emphasis)
The tidal wave of Trump's illegal political machinations, from the very first day he triumphantly strode into the White House, centred around the lifting of the millstone of sanctions around Putin's neck.These sanctions were placed around Putin's neck by the EU and the US because of his illegal invasion and annexation of Crimea, and his ongoing war with Ukraine in the Donbas.
MSNBC : 1 Oct. 2019
What is now been revealed, moment by moment, is just how many of Trump's senior advisors and appointees have become accomplices in his illegal actions.
We now learn that Kurt Volker, the 'special' US envoy to Ukraine dealing with Ukraine's war with Putin, has resigned from his post because it was he who paved the path for Rudy Giuliani to try and dig up dirt on Joe Biden, Trump's main democratic rival in the upcoming 2020 US presidential elections.
Then there is the US Attorney General, William Barr (left), and the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo (right), whom we now learn were central actors in the unfolding of Trump's attempt to 'shake down' President Zelensky to dish dirt on Joe Biden in exchange for, amongst other things, Javelin missiles to protect Ukraine from Putin's tanks in the Donbas.
And yet, as reported by the BBC, Ukraine itself had long ago dismissed the Trump and Giuliani conspiracy about Joe Biden's corruption as nothing more than a false conspiracy.
"Speaking to BBC Kiev correspondent Jonah Fisher, Mr Lutsenko - who succeeded Mr Shokin and stood down last month - said there was no plan to open the investigation into Burisma, and that any investigation into Hunter Biden would have to start in the US.
"It is the jurisdiction of the US," he said, adding that any "possible embezzlement" at Burisma "happened two or three years before Hunter Biden became a member of the board". (BBC : 29 Sept. 2019) (my emphasis)
Indeed, Zelensky should now ask himself whether Trump's telephone tête-à-tête's with Putin, PRIOR to his own call with Trump, were not instrumental in Trump trying to 'shake him down' by threatening the withholding of US military aid for Ukraine.
If so this should, for Zelensky, shed new light on what Putin may have promised him in those calls he had with Putin.
Is it therefore any wonder that Putin does not want the transcripts of the calls between himself and Trump to be released?
"Speaking to BBC Kiev correspondent Jonah Fisher, Mr Lutsenko - who succeeded Mr Shokin and stood down last month - said there was no plan to open the investigation into Burisma, and that any investigation into Hunter Biden would have to start in the US.
"It is the jurisdiction of the US," he said, adding that any "possible embezzlement" at Burisma "happened two or three years before Hunter Biden became a member of the board". (BBC : 29 Sept. 2019) (my emphasis)
Indeed, Zelensky should now ask himself whether Trump's telephone tête-à-tête's with Putin, PRIOR to his own call with Trump, were not instrumental in Trump trying to 'shake him down' by threatening the withholding of US military aid for Ukraine.
If so this should, for Zelensky, shed new light on what Putin may have promised him in those calls he had with Putin.
Is it therefore any wonder that Putin does not want the transcripts of the calls between himself and Trump to be released?
Zelensky is now caught between a rock and a hard place.
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