Trump, Ukraine and Weaponized Diasporas

People forget today that a big chunk of the “intel” that helped boost RussiaGate was procured and spread around by Ukrainian-American political operatives.

I’ve been in Russia for the release of the Russian-language edition of Surveillance Valley and haven’t been able to follow the latest iteration of the Trump-Ukraine meddling scandal — this one about Hunter Biden’s shady work in Ukraine — as closely as I would like. But I’ve been watching the larger story around this develop for a few years now and one t…