For days now, Ukraine has been on the front pages of our newspapers and in the lead stories on our news networks. Normally, that would be good news, but not so much in this case. Unfortunately, Ukraine has become a political football in the U.S. as the 2020 presidential election draws nearer.
At the center of the news is a July 25 telephone conversation between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy in which the U.S. president – directly after hearing from Mr. Zelenskyy that Kyiv is ready to buy more Javelins – appears to be pressuring the Ukrainian president into doing him a “favor.” Mr. Trump says he would like Mr. Zelenskyy to find out what happened with CrowdStrike (an Internet security company that looked into the hack of the Democratic National Committee’s servers back in 2016 and determined that two groups connected to the Russian government were responsible), adding that it’s believed Ukraine has one of the servers.