A former US diplomat who was in charge of relations with Russia during the George W. Bush administration questioned President Donald Trump's motives to call his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky a "dictator without elections" and blame him for Russia's invasion as geopolitical tensions continue to rise.
"Where is he going with this?" said Thomas Graham, who was in charge of US-Russia relations at the National Security Council during the mentioned Republican government. "I think he's misrepresenting the situation in Ukraine, and I don't know what he hopes to get by that. Is this a way to sort of prepare the ground for the American public to accept basically a capitulation to Putin?" added Graham, now working at the Council on Foreign Relations.
