EA on Australia’s ABC: Trump, Russia, and the Bounty on US Troops in Afghanistan

Posted by Scott Lucas | Jun 29, 2020 | 0

Donald Trump with US troops at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, November 28, 2019 (Tom Brenner/Reuters)

Did Donald Trump protect President Vladimir Putin over any US response to a Russian bounty for the Taliban’s killing of US troops in Afghanistan?

Or was Trump ignorant of the US intelligence on the Russian scheme, discussed in a high-level White House meeting in late March?

I discuss the case and the possibilities with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Beverley O’Connor on Monday:

Watch from 20:58

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Scott Lucas is Professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin; Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Birmingham; and editor-in-chief of EA WorldView.He is a specialist in US and British foreign policy and international relations, especially the Middle East and Iran. Formerly he worked as a journalist in the US, writing for newspapers including the Guardian and The Independent and was an essayist for The New Statesman before he founded EA WorldView in November 2008.

EA on Australia’s ABC: Trump, Russia, and the Bounty on US Troops in Afghanistan

Donald Trump with US troops at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, November 28, 2019 (Tom Brenner/Reuters)

Did Donald Trump protect President Vladimir Putin over any US response to a Russian bounty for the Taliban’s killing of US troops in Afghanistan?

Watch from 20:58

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