There was no excuse for Congress’ ignorance of Ukraine. Here is a guide to help.
At
Wednesday’s debut of the impeachment hearings there was one issue upon
which both sides of the aisle seemed to agree, and it was a comic-book
caricature of reality.
House
Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff led off the proceedings
with this: “In 2014, Russia invaded a United States ally, Ukraine, to
reverse that nation’s embrace of the West, and to fulfill Vladimir
Putin’s desire to rebuild a Russian empire…”
Five
years ago, when Ukraine first came into the news, those Americans who
thought Ukraine was an island in the Pacific can perhaps be forgiven.
That members of the House Intelligence Committee don’t know — or pretend
not to know — more accurate information about Ukraine is a scandal, and
a consequential one.
As Professor Stephen Cohen has warned, if the impeachment process does
not deal in objective fact, already high tensions with Russia are likely
to become even more dangerous.
So here is a kind of primer for those who might be interested in some Ukraine history:
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