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rampartc

(5,389 posts) Fri Sep 27, 2019, 03:50 AM Sep 2019

if so. with holding the money is contrary to usa vital interests.

if not, why is it in the budget?

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is the foreign aid to ukraine important to usa vital interests? (Original Post) rampartc Sep 2019 OP

so it becomes a slush fund that trump can use for opposition research rampartc Sep 2019 #2

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1. It WAS... back when Republicans not named Trump cared about opposing Russian interests.

Fri Sep 27, 2019, 03:51 AM

Sep 2019

But after Trump let Manafort modify the Republican platform to please Russia and none of them really objected... who fucking knows?!

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2. so it becomes a slush fund that trump can use for opposition research

Fri Sep 27, 2019, 03:58 AM

Sep 2019

personally, I don't care whose flag flies over crimea or donbas, but those are $Ms that should be spent on education and health care here at home.