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Latest Trump Putin Appeasement: Growing Hostility Toward Ukraine | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

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Published on Aug 31, 2019

Joy Reid notes Donald Trump's conveniently cancelled trip to Poland, where he would have also met with the leader of Ukraine,
as well as Trump's slowing of aid to Ukraine while he advocates for Vladimir Putin to have Russia's G8 status restored.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRQu6Y5CyF8

I hadn't seen before that in cancelling his trip to Poland he also cancelled a meeting with Ukraine's President Zelensky

Trump cancels visit to Poland due to Hurricane Dorian
Thus, the planned meeting with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is also canceled
12:24, 30 August 2019
https://112.international/politics/trump-cancels-visit-to-poland-due-to-hurricane-dorian-43100.html

From video:

Trump holds up Ukraine military aid meant to confront Russia
By CAITLIN EMMA and CONNOR O’BRIEN
08/28/2019 06:11 PM EDT
Updated 08/29/2019 03:40 PM EDT
The Trump administration is slow-walking $250 million in military assistance to Ukraine,
annoying lawmakers and advocates who argue the funding is critical to keeping Russia at bay.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/28/trump-ukraine-military-aid-russia-1689531

Joy says if Trump keeps blocking the aid to Ukraine until the end of September the money disappears. And Putin's smile widens.

See also:

US spies say Trump's G7 performance suggests he's either a 'Russian asset' or a 'useful idiot' for Putin
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=150849323

Senate tangles with Russia after Trump's overtures to Putin
[...]
Tensions between Russia and the Senate are rising after President Donald Trump's latest outreach to Moscow, with the
Kremlin barring senators in both parties from visiting and Democrats urging Trump to keep Russia out of the G-7.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=150794334

“Russia’s actions both in Ukraine and in other ways have clearly made it not
eligible for partnership in this group of like-minded countries,” Trudeau added
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=150782593

THE NATIONAL INTEREST 9:32 P.M.
Trump Went to the Mat for Putin at the G-7 Summit
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=150776513

Yes Trump is going bonkers and I expect he will go out loud criminally insane
[...]
It’s no joke, as former vice president Joe Biden would say. In the last week or so, we’ve witnessed President Trump deny there is a threat of recession; blame the Federal Reserve chairman for raising interest rates too high (!); deny, then admit and then finally reject consideration of cuts to either payroll taxes or a capital-gains taxes. We’ve seen him seriously consider “buying” Greenland, then cancel a trip to Denmark and then finally insult Denmark’s female prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, whom Trump characterized as “nasty” (his all-purpose insult to women who won’t do his bidding), and claimed that when she says his idea about purchasing Greenland was “absurd,” she is offending the United States. He’s called Jews disloyal on consecutive days and proclaimed himself the “chosen one” (or should it be “Chosen One”?), though he still insists the trade deficit means China has “sucked” hundreds of billions of dollars out of our economy. He insists that kicking Russia out of the Group of 8 for its invasion of Ukraine was an overreaction by President Barack Obama (I guess that is what he means), and should be reversed.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=150708068