Thanks to a newly released trove of U.S. official correspondence, the world now knows just how clumsily the Trump administration tried to get Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to serve its political ends. Perhaps the embarrassment will finally teach the Americans a lesson: This kind of meddling in foreign governments’ affairs will do you no good.
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Leonid Bershidsky: US meddling in Ukraine is a disaster
US President Donald Trump listens as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to the press during a meeting in New York on September 25, 2019, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.