From the Archive: Through the Lens of Ukraine: The Escalating Dangers of Trump Foreign Policy

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 5 August 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Over three years later, and the fallout of Trump's Ukraine scandal is just as important as ever. Today's From the Archive comes from November 2019, and deals with how the scandal damaged US national security. Original Description: With all eyes on the impeachment hearings this week, we take a step back to reframe the discussion about Trump shake-down of the Ukrainian government in terms of the damage that was done to U.S. national security interests and those of our allies. Congress voted money to Ukraine not as a gift, but to enable them to defend against an active invasion by Russia. Withholding that money put lives and Ukraine’s stability at risk. The case is just one illustration of a broader series of decisions by the Trump team that have put America and Americans in danger—from the green light given to the Turks to invade Syria thereby strengthening ISIS, Russia, Iran and the Syrians to seeking to cut a deal and leave Afghanistan to the Taliban, from bungling the North Korea negotiation to gift after gift after gift given to the Russians. We discuss with Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, one of the top Democratic foreign policy leaders and thinkers in Washington. Don’t miss this special episode of DSR. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.0	Today's from the archive episode comes all the way from November of 2019,
1:09.0	where Senator Chris Murphy joins David to talk about Trump's shakedown of the Ukrainian government
1:13.0	and its effects on U.S. national security.
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