GOP Platform & Russia

In a shift, Republican platform doesn't call for arming Ukraine against Russia, spurring outrage

http://www.latimes.com/world/la-na-pol-ukraine-gop-20160720-snap-story.html?utm_source=jolt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Jolt08152016&utm_term=Jolt

Excerpt: For decades, Republican doctrine has viewed Russia as a power to mistrust. But in Donald Trump’s GOP, Moscow’s sins seem to matter less.

The platform written at the GOP convention in Cleveland this week eliminated references to arming Ukraine in its fight with Russia, which seized the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and has supported separatists in eastern Ukraine.

Many in the party’s foreign policy establishment are outraged.

They note that Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, had worked as a consultant for the now-ousted pro-Russian government in Ukraine.