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2016 - Trump says NATO is obsolete.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.
29Alternet.org by Thom Hartmann / Aug 16, 2025 at 5:56 AM Is this article about Opinions? This is what happens when cynical, greedy, amoral billionaires and psychopaths run a country. The Times of London (Murdoch-owned) is reporting that billionaire Steve Witkoff, billionaire Donald Trump, and billionaire Vladimir Putin have worked out a model behind the scenes to solve the Ukraine problem: just make it like Gaza. They’re planning, according to this reporting, to fully respect the borders of Ukraine and the country’s sovereignty, but with one catch. Just like Israel did with Gaza, Ukraine can “self-govern” but all political and economic decisions will be made or approved by Moscow, all funds flowing through Moscow, just like the governments of Gaza and the West Bank are subservient to the whims of Netanyahu and the Israeli Knesset. It's essentially a plan to return Ukraine to the subordinate status it had when it was part of the old Soviet Union, which Putin appears committed ...
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