2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumUkrainians Fear President Trump Will End Their Freedom
The ominous shadow of Putin-praising Donald Trump looms large over the country Putin is trying hard to tear apart.
Anna Nemtsova
09.21.16 1:02 AM ET
KIEV Perhaps you remember Ukraine. Perhaps you remember this war. But if youre in the United States in the blur of the American presidential campaign, it must seem faint and far away.
For the people here, however, what they read and see coming out of Republican candidate Donald Trump sounds very loud, and clear, and tantamount to a death sentence for their country. Adding despair to pessimism, they realize their own leaders arent really prepared if Trump wins.
It seems to them almost inconceivable that an American president would praise and be praised by Russias Vladimir Putin, who illegally annexed Ukraines strategic Crimea Peninsula in 2014 then started a shadow war waged by proxy forces and unidentified Russian soldiers to carve off eastern Ukraine (Donbas) like a butcher cutting a roast.
Of course, the factions that have set up republics in the east think Trump is great, just as many Russians in the Motherland do after a steady diet of Moscow-generated praise for The Donald.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/21/ukrainians-fear-president-trump-will-end-their-freedom.html
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)Putin owns Trump, possibly quite literally.
gordianot
(15,237 posts)Not only should you serve your master he wants you to pay for the privilege of your servitude.