the country's caught in a kind of tug-of-war on the front lines between russia and the european union, nato allies and the u.s. the ukraine is in the midst of a post-revolutionary environment in which they've already gotten sucked into american politics before. plus this previous russian stooge leader of ukraine was paying donald trump's campaign chair paul manafort tons of money. imagine how this looks from the ukrainian side of things. here's the new president of ukraine, who it appears is basically being extorted by the u.s., and donald trump has essentially tried to get the ukrainian president to do a thing that would in any other circumstance be viewed as unacceptable, a demerit on the global stage, ginning up an investigation into a political rival. the president's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, has also admitted he asked ukraine to investigate joe biden. and while the united states is putting all this pressure on the ukrainian president to do this corrupt thing for president trump, what hangs in the balance is hundreds of millions of dollars for military aid which