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kpete

(72,013 posts) Thu Nov 7, 2019, 03:02 PM Nov 2019

A "grand bargain with Russia where we throw Ukraine under the bus."

Volker on his sense of why Bill Taylor was reluctant to serve as acting ambassador to Ukraine: “I think hanging over everyone’s head on the expert community is, is there some grand bargain with Russia where we throw Ukraine under the bus.”

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A "grand bargain with Russia where we throw Ukraine under the bus." (Original Post) kpete Nov 2019 OP

And Moscow Don's reward. Wellstone ruled Nov 2019 #1

Not so much a Grand Bargin, but more like a Grand Sellout. OAITW r.2.0 Nov 2019 #2

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

1. And Moscow Don's reward.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Nov 7, 2019, 03:22 PM

Nov 2019

Putin would give him all the land he needed for new Resorts and most likely the Cancellation of his Russian Funded Duetche Bank and Ladder Capital Loans.

Moscow Don is shooting for a mega Payday and that is all he cares about...

OAITW r.2.0

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2. Not so much a Grand Bargin, but more like a Grand Sellout.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Nov 7, 2019, 05:15 PM

Nov 2019

Putin wants the Ukraine back in the Russian orbit and Trump seems more than happy to go along with it.

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