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Trump has upended the long history of US investment in Ukraine's democracy

  • Written by Matthew Pauly, Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University

On a cold December night in 2016, Marie Yovanovitch, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, spoke to an anxious audience at a library in the southern Ukrainian port of Odessa. The audience was eager to hear what the recent election of Donald Trump might mean for their own security.

Yovanovitch had been my boss at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine 15 years...

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