WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Republican senator on Thursday sought to assure Australia that the United States remains a staunch ally following a tense discussion between President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, urged Trump in a letter sent Wednesday to respond decisively to what McCain described as Russian President “Vladimir Putin’s violent campaign to destabilize and dismember the sovereign nation of Ukraine.”
McCain said Putin “will not stop unless and until he meets a strong and determined response” and the senator urged Trump to supply Ukraine with defensive lethal assistance …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
