US President Donald Trump is willing to sacrifice Ukraine in exchange for lucrative oil and gas deals with Russia, but this bargain is bound to backfire spectacularly.
US President Donald Trump is willing to sacrifice Ukraine in exchange for lucrative oil and gas deals with Russia, but this bargain is bound to backfire spectacularly. Vladimir Putin has a long record of betraying his business partners, and once he gets what he wants from Trump, Europe will be his next target. NEW YORK—US President Donald Trump and his cronies are eager to normalize relations with Russia in exchange forlucrative oil deals. In doing so, they are advancing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s strategy of systematically isolating Ukraine by making its defense so costly that popular support for the country in Europe evaporates.