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There is no dispute that the Russian-initiated violence in eastern Ukraine and their activities designed to destabilize the government of Ukraine all suddenly ramped up after Trump's election victory and the subsequent phone conversation between Trump and Putin.

What we're left with is not knowing whether Trump gave some sort of signal to Putin, overt or otherwise, that he would not interfere with Putin's campaign to destroy democracy in Ukraine, or whether Putin just determined from their conversation that Trump was too weak ethically to resist Putin's aggression there.

Either way, it looks like Trump is giving Ukraine and its people over to the Imperial Russia ambitions of the Russian dictator.

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