“Every time Trump or members of his administration have lashed out at Europe, including Ukraine, Europeans have absorbed the blow with a forced smile and bent over backwards to flatter the White House.” (…)
“While a systemic answer to Europe’s security conundrum is not in sight, Europeans do have the levers to prevent Ukraine’s capitulation and create the conditions for a just peace.”
TIL about Craig Unger goodreads has some nice reviews:
“One of the things I found valuable about House of Trump, House of Putin is that Unger makes clear—if such a thing can be made clear—what a strange, amorphous organism Russian/Ukrainian organized crime can be: equal parts legitimate business and human trafficking, government influence and illegal money laundering, threats of blackmail whispered in darkness and bold murder on the daytime streets.”
I think many (should) know most of the story though. But like you say it’s circumstancial. You know what I’ve been thinking lately; what if it was FSB who ordered to off Epstein, afraid he might blow the whistle on this scandals? Wouldn’t be entirely wild anymore.
My bet is it was Trump himself who ordered Epstein to be killed. In the mid-November email leak, Epstein talked about having a “silver bullet” that could take down Trump. Nine months later, dude was dead.
Could be FSB though. We might never know.
It’s the interests of US democracy and western democracies to find out though. I hope someone like a journalist finds out. Trump must go.