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Dear Editor,
As our hearts break for the people of Ukraine, it is imperative that we wrap our heads around the fact that this is the price of supporting a president who stridently promoted “America First.” This is the price of supporting a president who cast doubt on America’s commitment to NATO and weakened its deterrent strength. This is the price of supporting a president and his enablers who divided us here at home and made us weak in the eyes of adversaries. This is the price of supporting a president who accepted Russian interference in our elections and chose to support “Vladimir Putin’s “account of that election over the findings of our CIA. This is also the price of letting a president get away with holding military aid to Ukraine hostage to his attempt to get political dirt on an election rival. And this is the price of supporting a president who aligned himself with aggressive authoritarians and actively promoted selfishness and self-interest here at home and before the United Nations. While some may say that such a view is just “Monday morning quarterbacking,” the facts are that many steeped in foreign policy warned at the time of the risks Trump was creating by ripping up foreign policy agreements”, casting doubt on our commitment to allies, and cozying up to authoritarians like Putin, China’s Xi Jinping, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. casting doubt on our commitment to allies, and cozying up to authoritarians like Putin, China’s Xi Jinping, Turkey’s Erdogan and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.
Bruce Dawson
Taylorville
