Subject: Fiona Hill and what Russia wants
From Tiedrich:

on October 14, 2019, Hill testified before a closed-door joint Congressional meeting of Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs. here’s a lovely passage from that testimony.

“And the Russians at this particular juncture were signaling very strongly that they wanted to somehow make some very strange swap arrangement between Venezuela and Ukraine…. You know, you have your Monroe doctrine. You want us out of your backyard. Well, you know, we have our own version of this. You’re in our backyard in Ukraine….”