Unspecified Ukraine Worrying
False and toxic narrative redux
No one who uses monotonic logics in ultra-competitive Ukraine-style politics is ever allowed to take something back. Once you've said something, that's it. It’s stuck to your ass forever.
That’s one reason why the May 26, 2020 statement written and signed by seven former American ambassadors to Ukraine is ridiculous.
The letter, which appeared on the website of the Atlantic Council, did not specify what prompted concern among the former ambassadors. But John Herbst, the U.S. envoy to Kyiv from 2003 to 2006 and now director of the think tank’s Eurasia Center, said it was motivated by leaked recordings of years-old phone conversations between then-Vice President Joe Biden and Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine’s president at the time. - Washington Post, May 26
A second reason is because there are at least eight hours of these unflattering secretly recorded conversations. Think of it as the Ukrainian audio version of Wikileaks. I won’t talk about the third and fourth reasons.
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