opelmanta1900 wrote:right... biden was leveraging the aid against an ally for financial gain... you seem to have your priorities out of whack...
also, we know FOR FACT that biden threatened to withhold aid to the ukraine if they didn't do what he said... we know that FOR FACT... we can disagree on his motives, but we know FOR FACT that he threatened to withhold aid in order to force the ukrainian governments hand on something that was absolutely none of our business...
re-read the context of what was happening in Ukraine at the time...a revolution was underway for power in Ukraine...the Russians had recently annexed Crimea, an important port for the economy of Ukraine ...the G8 expelled Russia because of this...Russian influence in Ukraine was on the rise...
the entire Western world was concerned that cronies of deposed PM Yanukovych, who fled to Russia, was acting against the will of the people ... the Ukrainian prosecutor, Shokin, who was charged with preventing corruption was turning a blind eye, essentially giving the country over to corruption...
Biden was speaking on behalf of not just the US, but the entire western democratic world, when he threatened to withhold Ukrainian aid, since there was no guarantee it would not fall into corrupt hands...by then the investigation into Burisma, Hunter Biden's company had been over for more than a year with no evidence that Joe Biden's son was involved in any corruption...
very different motive between Biden's and Trump's similar behavior...
just a thought....Trump's threat to withhold military aid would jeopardize US interests in helping Ukraine ward off Russian backed rebels who are still fighting the democratically elected govt., and is antithetical to US foreign policy to support Ukraine's military to fight off Russian aggression...
my opinion: no surprise that Trump would do anything that may help Russia in Ukraine...secondary motive? wonder if there's a hidden transcript of a phone conversation between Trump and Putin, where Vlad suggests Trump should end aid to Ukraine to further Russia's effort to regain control of that country