The “politics of personal destruction” is a term that originated in the US three decades ago during the Clinton era. The coinage was resurrected more recently in 2017 by Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi in her criticism of Republican rhetoric during the Trump years. Yet while the term is originally American, there is one country where such politics has reached its apogee: Ukraine.
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Adrian Karatnycky: Naftogaz drama highlights Ukraine’s politics of personal destruction
Naftogaz CEO Andriy Kobolyev answers journalists' questions at a press briefing in Kyiv on Dec. 31, 2019.