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Re:Kissinger's killing fields by vlovich123 on Thursday May 25, 2023 @05:29PM (#36076495)
That’s an interesting take. Only a year or two ahead of the Ukrainian election Trump was threatening withholding agreed to and paid for arms shipments to Ukraine unless they announce investigations into Biden’s son. His people also blatantly lied claiming meetings with Russians ahead of elections were just about adoption policy whereas really it was about lifting the Magnitsky act which was the reason Russia banned US adoptions.
Re:Kissinger's killing fields by hummer_embark on Friday May 26, 2023 @10:29AM (#36084639)
The contact with Russia prior to inauguration was for lobbying on behalf of Israel.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/01/michael-flyn...

Re:Kissinger's killing fields by vlovich123 on Saturday May 27, 2023 @12:02AM (#36091981)
Nope. Totally different meeting: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/06/us/politics/t...

The Trump team had lots of contact with Russia about all sorts of topics. By the way as far as I know, lobbying the Russians against the interests of the current government is extremely rare and rises to the level of what Reagan did to Carter with the Iran hostage crisis. There’s even laws on the books iirc that this isn’t allowed although no one seems to want to try enforcing it.