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This is the sort of language usually reserve for adversaries, not allies. It sounds like Trump’s personal lawyer is threatening a foreign elected leader to get him to investigate his boss’ main political rival. This tweet is not really about Kolomoyski, it’s about Biden.
The extraordinary thing here is that everyone watching Ukraine expected president-elect Zelensky’s first major foreign policy test to come from Russia which is waging a war there. Instead we are seeing an undiplomatic onslaught from an ostensible friend, the US. How sad.
This is Giuliani twisting the arm of a small country reliant on the US for diplomatic and military support against Russia. He’s signaling that our support is conditional on how Ukraine treats Trump’s supposed “enemies.” Ukraine is now being bullied by both Russia and the US.
There is overwhelming support for integration into NATO & the EU in Ukraine according to opinion polls, the former because of Russia’s war. But if the US continues to be a bad faith actor and doesn’t reel Giuliani in that could change & what a huge win for Moscow that would be
