Thanks to a newly released trove of US official correspondence, the world now knows just how clumsily the Trump administration tried to get Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to serve its political ends. Perhaps the embarrassment will finally teach the Americans a lesson: This kind of meddling in foreign governments’ affairs will do you no good.
The messages, made public as part of a congressional impeachment inquiry, illustrate the lengths to which top US diplomats went in pursuing their goal: extracting a public pledge from Zelenskiy to investigate whether Ukraine had interfered in the 2016 US election with the aim of helping …read more
Source:: Gulf times
