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A Brief Russia-Ukraine Timeline

2016 - Russia helps Trump get elected with an internet trolling farm and fake Facebook accounts. 2016 - Trump says NATO is obsolete. 2016 - Trump hires campaign manager Paul Manafort, who previously worked for Putin's puppet governor of Ukraine. 2018 - During a NATO meeting, John Bolton, National Security Advisor under Trump, fears that Trump came close to announcing he was going to pull the US out of NATO. 2018 - Trump says NATO is as bad as NAFTA. 2019 - Trump privately tells his advisers he want to pull the US out of NATO. Word gets out. Both Republicans and Democrats in both the House and the Senate start legislation to stop Trump from leaving NATO. 2019 - Trump abandons our allies, the Syrian Kurds. Russian troops move into one of our former military bases in Syria. Syria, a Russian ally, regains some of its territory. 2019 - Trump's Defense Secretary, Jim Mattis, resigns in protest of Trump's decision to abandon the Syrian Kurds. 2019 - Trump withholds military assistance to Ukraine to pressure Ukraine to publicly announce an investigation of the Bidens. Ukraine is fighting Russian-backed rebels. 2020 - Russia again uses fake internet posters and Facebook accounts to help Trump win reelection. 2020 - Trump loses the election, ending the threat that he will pull the US out of NATO. 2022 - Russia, which fears Ukraine may now still join a NATO that still has the US in it because Trump is gone, invades Ukraine.

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