US President Donald Trump will give Ukraine much more support than his predecessor Barack Obama. There are two reasons for this: awareness of the degree of the Russian threat, as well as a desire to extinguish a series of scandals about the ties between the owner of the White House and the Kremlin.
Such an opinion on the air "The Observer. LIVE "said American political scientist, director of the non-governmental organization For a free Ukraine Jason Smart.
"The US will support Ukraine more now than with Obama. Trump understands the risk of Russia ... this threat. He understands that this is a country that is fighting against peaceful Ukraine, "he said..
At the same time, Smart stressed that the US president was in a very difficult situation. This is due to the FBI investigation regarding the cooperation of Trump companies with the Russian Federation.
"They have now opened a new investigation. For him, this is a huge scandal and he needs to do something to show that he is not pro-Russian, but, on the contrary, he is against Russia, "said the political scientist..
Smart said that the press in the US is full of headlines about Trump's cooperation with the Russian Federation in the past, and this strikes a blow to his reputation. The situation is developing in this way, the studio guest continued, which significantly increased the chance of giving to Kiev American lethal weapons.
"If he gives a weapon that will kill the Russians, it will show for sure that he is not for Russia ... For him it is politically important in the US to do something urgently to show that he is not pro-Russian, but pro-European, pro-Ukrainian," added the political scientist.
As reported by the "Observer", in the United States did not cease talking about the possible impeachment of Trump because of the scandal surrounding the investigation of his team's relations with Russia.
A new wave of charges was born in an article in The New York Times. It claims that the owner of the White House allegedly asked former FBI director James Komi to stop the investigation against Michael Flynn, a former presidential adviser suspected of having ties to Moscow.
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