Exit by U.S. ambassador to Ukraine signals Trump's failure
By Trudy Rubin / The Philadelphia Inquirer
In his third phone call with Vladimir Putin, President Trump once again bowed to the Russian leader over ending Moscow’s war on Ukraine. The great dealmaker let the Kremlin boss set all the terms.
Trump’s mishandling of Putin was well summed up in an interview I did (before Monday’s Trump-Putin phone call) with the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink, one of the best-informed and most dedicated foreign service professionals I have met over decades of foreign reporting.
Brink, who had worked for five presidents and served in Kyiv for three years, recently quit and retired because she felt she could no longer implement White House policy on Ukraine.
“I resigned,” she said, “because the Trump administration’s policy put pressure on the victim, Ukraine, and let the aggressor, Russia, off the hook. This is not the way to end the war in a just and lasting way.”
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