Column: The first round of the Trump impeachment hearings was goons versus diplomats (via latimesopinion)
The current administration, it seems, has privatized statecraft in Ukraine. But don’t worry, my anti-corporate friends: This high-stakes diplomacy isn’t run by some monstrous global oligopoly like Ford Motor Company or even Facebook.Taking the wheel in Ukraine has been, no joke, the motley crew of that creepy little pop-and-pop, Fraud Guarantee.
“Irregular” was the word Kent and Taylor settled on to describe the channel by which “some Americans” — Giuliani and Trump, with the Fraud Guarantee goons — circumvented existing foreign policy and tried to broker their own far-fetched and dirty deals.When Kent chronicled how the Fraud G crew tried character assassination on his colleagues, he sounded incredulous.
Like so many of the rest of us, Taylor seems perpetually startled that this country is led by a man who puts his narrowest and most venal self-interest above all else. In addition to the inhumanity of suspending military support for Ukraine as it tries to counter Russia’s occupation — which Trump and company apparently did in hopes of digging up something on Biden and the Democrats — it’s also injurious to the interests of the United States, all its citizens and our allies in Europe.
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