Paul
Goble
Staunton, August 1 – Ukrainian Interior
Minister Arsen Avakov and former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk have
denounced the declaration by Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for
president, that he is prepared to recognize the Russian seizure of Ukraine’s
Crimea as “shameful” and a demonstration that he is “a dangerous marginal.”
Trump’s “shameful declaration,”
Avakov said on Facebook, shows that Trump is “dangerous not only for Ukraine
but also for the US.” No one who is prepared to recognize Putin’s aggression
can be “a guarantor of democratic freedoms in the US and the world” (facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1096263383797100&set=a.382483715175074.91896.100002403454361&type=3&theater).
Yatsenyuk was even blunter in his
Facebook assessment of Trump’s comments during his interview on foreign policy (facebook.com/yatsenyuk.arseniy/posts/696167553870716
and uaposition.com/latest-news/yatsenyuk-on-trumps-crimea-statement-breach-of-moral-and-civilized-principles/).
”Donald Trump`s recent comments regarding
Crimea and Putin during his ABC interview go beyond any form of domestic
political campaigning. An official candidate for the United States presidential
election has challenged the very values of the free world, civilized world
order and international law,” the former prime minister said.
The Republican candidate’s statement “can
hardly be called ignorance. It is a breach of moral and civilized principles,”
Yatsenyuk wrote. “What Donald Trump said about Crimea today, he might tomorrow extend
to some other part of the world – in Europe, Asia or the Americas.” And that
makes it worrisome for everyone.
“The United States is the leader of the free world,”
the Ukrainian leader said. “Without [its] leadership and the alliance, the free
world will be destroyed by the likes of Putin, Le Pen, Assad, Kim Jong Un and
other dictators, demagogues and populists.”
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