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Geopolitical Blundering Corrupt Ukrainians "cover[ed] up for what the Bidens and perhaps other senior Obama officials had done... [to] impeached Trump... the people of Ukraine will come out much the worse for both of their efforts"

The critically acclaimed author of The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, Lee Smith, who worked in media for over twenty years, writing about foreign policy, has been a frequent guest on television on national and international, including Fox News, CNN and France 24 wrote corrupt Ukrainians "cover[ed] up for what the Bidens and perhaps other senior Obama officials had done in Ukraine... [to] impeached Trump... the people of Ukraine will come out much the worse for both of their efforts ": By tying itself to an American administration that had shown itself to be reckless and dangerous, the Ukrainians made a geopolitical blunder that statesmen will study for years to come: A buffer state had staked its future on a distant power that had simply seen it as an instrument to annoy its powerful neighbor with no attachment to any larger strategic concept that it was willing to support. Russia th