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Will Trump abandon Ukraine if he wins in November?

Will Trump abandon Ukraine if he wins in November?

Politics Weekly America vor 2 Jahren

Jonathan Freedland speaks to Susan Glasser of The New Yorker about why America’s allies, including Ukraine, are so worried about a second Trump presidency

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Two years ago this weekend, Russia invaded Ukraine. Two weeks ago,
Donald Trump admitted that he would encourage Russia to ‘do
whatever the hell they want’ to the US’s Nato allies, if they did
not meet Trump’s demand to ‘pay their fair share’ of Nato funding.
He also compared himself to the Russian opposition leader Alexei
Navalny when discussing one of his many legal woes. All the while,
the military aid package passed by the Senate last week, which
includes $60bn for Ukraine, has stalled in the House of
Representatives. So how worried should the US’s allies be about a
second Trump presidency? What happens if the Republican party’s
isolationist streak becomes the policy of the entire US? And in the
meantime, how can Biden protect Ukraine when Congress refuses to
act? Jonathan Freedland discusses these questions with Susan
Glasser of The New Yorker