{"id":1363815,"date":"2022-03-08T07:56:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T12:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1363815"},"modified":"2022-03-08T08:01:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T13:01:27","slug":"americans-abandoned-again-as-biden-admin-ends-diplomatic-presence-in-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-abandoned-again-as-biden-admin-ends-diplomatic-presence-in-kyiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Abandoned Again as Biden Admin Ends Diplomatic Presence in Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famericans-abandoned-again-as-biden-admin-ends-diplomatic-presence-in-kyiv%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1363815&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Those who don\u2019t learn from history are said to be condemned to repeat it. In Ukraine, President Joe Biden\u2019s administration has condemned\u00a0<em>others<\/em> to repeat it, instead.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it\u2019s been reported that roughly five Americans in pre-trial detention in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv have been largely abandoned by the United States, given the lack of diplomatic presence in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Now, from afar, the State Department is requesting the individuals, including one facing charges that are potentially politically motivated, be released from detention as worries mount about what might happen to them if guards stop reporting to work or if Russia takes over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/leak-reveals-what-biden-plans-to-do-if-russia-captures-kyiv-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">capital city<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The situation mimics that of Afghanistan \u2014 if on a smaller scale \u2014 where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pentagon-confirms-439-americans-remain-trapped-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hundreds of Americans<\/a> were abandoned by the Biden administration during the chaotic withdrawal from the country last August.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/ukraine-prisons-state-department-russia-82ec6c99-5c08-45e7-b122-3238fb02cba8.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axios<\/a> reported Foggy Bottom\u2019s move to ask Ukraine to release the five Americans in pre-trial detention in Kyiv, all of whom have been charged but not tried or convicted.<\/p>\n<div id=\"in-article-trending\" class=\"in-article-more inner-content\">\n<p>Trending:<\/p>\n<div class=\"in-article-more-right\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/american-brutal-reaction-gas-prices-bidens-america-sick-stomach\/\" data-type=\"Internal link\" data-type-location=\"in-content-trending\">American Has Brutal Reaction to Gas Prices in Biden&#8217;s America: &#8216;Sick to My Stomach&#8217;<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to Axios\u2019 Zachary Besu, Washington was \u201cfearing for their safety as Russian forces continue their assault on the capital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith conditions growing more desperate by the day, any way out for these Americans is highly uncertain. Two former Marines the U.S. has said are wrongfully detained in Russia may also face additional danger as tensions with Moscow spiral,\u201d Besu added.<\/p>\n<p>The request was made in a diplomatic note from the State Department to the government of Ukraine on Wednesday, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>However, it\u2019s going to be difficult for American diplomats to check on the detainees still left in Kyiv, since American diplomats have been relocated <em>out of<\/em>\u00a0Kyiv. In February, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/russia-ukraine-news-us-tells-americans-leave-now-lviv-braces-for-evacuees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS reported<\/a>, the Biden administration evacuated the U.S. diplomatic presence, moving to the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\" class=\"one-half\">\n<p>Is Joe Biden partially responsible for the invasion of Ukraine?<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results\">\n<p>\nYes: 99% (493 Votes)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNo: 1% (6 Votes)\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>While it\u2019s unclear from the Axios report what work was done before the invasion or while the U.S. Embassy was still in Kyiv, that would have been the time to do it. No such luck.<\/p>\n<p>Among those still being held in pre-trial detention is North Dakota businessman Kurt Groszhans, who, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvrr.com\/2022\/03\/04\/war-in-ukraine-complicates-path-home-for-groszhans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Associated Press<\/a>, stands accused of conspiring to kill Roman Leshchenko, his former business partner and the current Ukrainian minister of agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>However, Groszhans\u2019 family says the charges stem not from an assassination plot but the fact he accused Leshchenko of corruption publicly. This isn\u2019t exactly an implausible theory; while we\u2019re all putting Ukrainian flags on our Facebook and Twitter profiles, let\u2019s not forget the political infrastructure in Ukraine is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/future-development\/2019\/10\/31\/fighting-corruption-in-ukraine-usaids-strategy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">astoundingly crooked<\/a> for a democratic nation.<\/p>\n<p>Since January, when worries were ratcheting up that Russia would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/president-zelenskyy-reveals-true-feelings-worlds-response-ukraine-invasion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">invade Ukraine<\/a>, Groszhans\u2019 family has been asking the State Department to get him released, Axios reported. Now, they\u2019re warning he could be left behind, deprived of food and heat if prison guards don\u2019t show up to work or the Russians take over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur concern is that the State Department is not advocating for his release because it would be inferring that Ukraine is engaged in corrupt activities right at a time when State is focused on being as supportive as possible of Ukraine against the Russians,\u201d Groszhans\u2019 sister said in a statement, according to Axios.<\/p>\n<div id=\"in-article-related\" class=\"in-article-more inner-content\">\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n<div class=\"in-article-more-right\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/even-worlds-biggest-electric-car-mogul-pushing-biden-oil-production-immediately\/\" data-type=\"Internal link\" data-type-location=\"in-content-related\">Even the World&#8217;s Biggest Electric Car Mogul Is Pushing Biden to Up Oil Production &#8216;Immediately&#8217;<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe support the Ukrainian people against Russia as well, but our brother is a sitting duck in that prison and we need him to be released so at least he can try to survive on his own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both of North Dakota\u2019s Senators \u2014 Republicans Kevin Cramer and John Hoeven \u2014 said they had contacted both the State Department and the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States to ask for Groszhans\u2019 release, Axios reported.<\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s any way of judging of how U.S. prisoners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wild-video-ukraine-aa-missile-allegedly-strikes-russias-fearsome-hind-helicopter-violent-head-hitt-head-hit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in Ukraine<\/a> will be treated if the Russians do take over the country, one need only to look toward the situation for Trevor Reed and Paul Whelan, former Marines imprisoned in Russia whom the United States considers to be \u201cunlawfully detained.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whelan is serving a 16-year sentence on espionage charges after a trial in 2020 that has been denounced by U.S. officials as unfair, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/19\/politics\/paul-whelan-three-years-detained-russia\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>. A Michigan businessman who was arrested in 2018 while in Moscow to attend a wedding, he is being held in a labor camp hundreds of miles east of Moscow, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/now\/war-ukraine-may-stall-talks-235915109.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Detroit Free Press<\/a> report from March 1.<\/p>\n<p>Reed \u2014 who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/family-ex-marine-russian-prison-announce-going-hunger-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allegedly fought with<\/a> police officers in Russia while drunk in 2019 \u2014 is currently serving a nine-year sentence in a remote penal colony in Russia where he\u2019s been out of direct communication with his family for eight months now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/amid-war-ukraine-us-marine-detained-russia-faces\/story?id=83227483\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News<\/a> reported last week that his family believes his health is \u201cdangerously deteriorating,\u201d with reports he may have contracted tuberculosis in December. He\u2019s been coughing up blood several times a day, he told an attorney who visited with him on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are desperately worried about Trevor\u2019s health \u2014 our son is out of time, and the [Biden] Administration needs to act now,\u201d his parents said in a statement, according to ABC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom one set of military parents to another \u2014 we need your help,\u201d the statement said, addressing President Biden and first lady Jill Biden. \u201cOnly you can save his life!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One shouldn\u2019t be too certain they would, considering the Americans who were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/revealed-biden-hiding-ruinous-left-behind-report-afghanistan-gop-american-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">left behind in Afghanistan<\/a> or the ones in pre-trial detention in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>This is arguably the most cowardly move the president has made when it comes to American presence abroad. While certainly not a human catastrophe on the scale as our chaotic withdrawal from Kabul, we also evacuated our staff from Kyiv before Russians even came close to the city in a war in which the United States isn\u2019t a combatant.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin likely wouldn\u2019t dare to treat whatever embassy staff remained behind the same way the Taliban would have treated the staff in Afghanistan \u2014 or how the Russians are treating civilians like Trevor Reed or Paul Whelan, who lacked the protection afforded diplomatic personnel. Nevertheless, withdraw we did.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the only hit to Biden himself for a stubborn refusal to learn from history will likely be a hit in the polls. The real suffering will be left, as always, to others.<\/p>\n<div id=\"author-info-44670\" class=\"author-info inner-content\">\n<div class=\"author-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/static.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/profile-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-meta-text\">\n<p>Contributor, Commentary<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-tabs\">\n<input type=\"radio\" name=\"ff-author-tab-44670\" value=\"summary-tab\" id=\"summary-tab-radio-44670\" checked \/><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-44670\">Summary<\/label><input type=\"radio\" name=\"ff-author-tab-44670\" value=\"more-info-tab\" id=\"more-info-tab-radio-44670\" \/><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-44670\">More<span class=\"rmation\"> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><input type=\"radio\" name=\"ff-author-tab-44670\" value=\"posts-tab\" id=\"posts-tab-radio-44670\" \/><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-44670\">Recent<span class=\"rmation\"> Posts<\/span><\/label><input type=\"radio\" name=\"ff-author-tab-44670\" value=\"contact-tab\" id=\"contact-tab-radio-44670\" \/><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-44670\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-tab summary-tab\">\n<p>C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-tab more-info-tab\">\n<p>\n C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he enjoys spending time with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBirthplace\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMorristown, New Jersey\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEducation\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCatholic University of America\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLanguages Spoken\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEnglish, Spanish\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTopics of Expertise\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAmerican Politics, World Politics, Culture\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who don\u2019t learn from history are said to be condemned to repeat it. In Ukraine, President Joe Biden\u2019s administration has condemned\u00a0others to repeat it, instead. 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