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Trump's about-face on Ukraine is the most shameful evolution of foreign policy since the US attacked Japan at Pearl Harbor.

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Please keep speaking out on this capitulation to Putin. Your voice is respected and your intimate knowledge of Russian society and government is invaluable.

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#thebetterhalfofamerica supports Ukraine and freedom and democracy and truth.

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I’m asking my friends to join me in writing to our elected representatives to protest this reversal. This is a good piece to share. Can you consider to write/ record piece specific to writing electeds to make it even easier to give people talking points specific to this moment at hand?

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Mike, I am going to write over the weekend that not only are there moral connections between democracy versus autocracy. There are also deeply biblical reasons. Judaism is deeply a deification of the rule of law and principle versus the deification of power. Keep up the good work.

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Ambassador McFaul, I totally subscribe to what you outlined in your video. However, I just finished watching this evening’s Washington Week (02/21/2025) with Jeffrey Goldberg, Peter Baker, Susan Glasser and Jonathan Lemire. I took from their discussion that the US commitment to NATO - Article 5 - is over and that in trump’s view, Ukraine falls within Russia’s sphere of influence (and therefore the US will no longer support Ukraine’s war effort). Hardly a peep out of leading Democrats - Obama, Biden, Harris, Schumer, Jeffries or anyone else, that I am aware of.

Speaking personally I am so *%#@&^! LIVID I am sputtering for words. WHAT TO DO?!!! I already donate to RAZOM and several other humanitarian organizations. I plan to attend the demonstration on Monday 02/24. I feel helpless and hopeless in the face of trump’s abandonment of Ukraine.

What can I offer my young Ukrainian refugee friend, here as a parolee under the auspices of the USCIS Humanitarian Parole program, Uniting for Ukraine (U4U)?

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