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The Trump-Putin love story’s next chapter: selling out Ukraine | Sidney Blumenthal

The US president is portraying Zelenskyy as the villain as he strives for Russia’s approval If Donald Trump could, he would fly to Munich to sign away Ukraine to Vladimir Putin, and return to wave the document as “peace in our time”, hoping to claim at least the second Fifa peace prize. Whatever the complicated motives of Neville Chamberlain, his…

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The Guardian· Oct 23, 10:00 AMThe Trump-Putin love story’s next chapter: selling out Ukraine | Sidney Blumenthal

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