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New Cold Wars.
As president, Donald Trump “made it very clear” that he thought Ukraine “must be part of Russia”, his former adviser Fiona Hill says in a new book about US national security under threat from Russia and China.
“Trump made it very clear that he thought, you know, that Ukraine, and certainly Crimea, must be part of Russia,” Hill, senior director for European and Russian affairs on the US national security council between 2017 and 2019, tells David Sanger, a New York Times reporter and author of New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West.
“He really could not get his head around the idea that Ukraine was an independent state.” This, Sanger writes, meant Trump’s view of Ukraine was “essentially identical” to that of self-proclaimed dictator Putin.
It's also in the same line of Trump’s words in support of Putin, including a stunning promise to “encourage Russia to do what the hell they want” to US Nato allies he deems financially delinquent.
The book appears with the Ukraine war grinding into its third year but US military aid to Kyiv blocked by far-right Republicans in the US House, acting in accordance with Trump’s wishes to put his personal gain over US interests.
According to Fiona Hills, Trump “idolises” Putin for his autocratic leadership and longevity in power. That view, Hill said, contributed to Trump’s furious rejection of intelligence agencies’ conclusion that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Trump win.
Hill’s words to Sanger about Trump’s view of Ukraine, though brief, seem guaranteed only to add to such worries.
The result of growing qualms about Trump, his attitude to Russia and other idiosyncrasies, Hill said in February, “is that [European leaders] have started to lose faith in the United States. And it’s very distressing to hear.”
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