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Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire | Politico - 11 Jan 2017 |

Merkel, who has served as an election observer in Ukrainian presidential elections dating back to 1993, noted there's some irony in Ukraine and Russia taking opposite sides in the 2016 presidential race, given that past Ukrainian elections were widely viewed in Washington's foreign policy community as proxy wars between the U.S. and Russia.

"Now, it seems that a U.S. election may have been seen as a surrogate battle by those in Kiev and Moscow," Merkel said.

DOJ's Inspector General Report on Russia Delayed as Steele Found Credible | BooMan23 - 9 July 2019 | ⁉️

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