President Trump’s stance on the Ukraine-Russian war prompted a Michigan woman to recently resign her role as U.S. Ambassador to Urkaine.

Bridget Brink, a native of East Grand Rapids, announced in April she would resign.

But it was only a few days ago she fully explained why in media interviews and an op-ed published in the Detroit Free Press.

Brink said it was all about the Trump administration’s tactics in trying to end the three-year-old war.

“Unfortunately, the policy since the beginning of the Trump administration has been to put pressure on the victim, Ukraine, rather than on the aggressor, Russia,” she wrote in the op-ed.

Brink is an East Grand Rapids High School graduate who later went on to earn a master’s degree in international relations and political theory from the London School of Economics.

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She began working for the U.S. Department of State in 1996 and served a variety of U.S. foreign policy roles in eastern European and western Asian countries.

Brink became the U.S. Ambassador to Slovakia in 2019 and then was appointed by former President Joe Biden as the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine in early 2022.

In her op-ed piece, Brink was blunt.

“I cannot stand by while a country is invaded, a democracy bombarded, and children killed with impunity. I believe that the only way to secure U.S. interests is to stand up for democracies and to stand against autocrats,” she wrote.

She went on to write: “Peace at any price is not peace at all ― it is appeasement. And history has taught us time and again that appeasement does not lead to safety, security or prosperity. It leads to more war and suffering.”

Her resignation comes as Trump continues an effort to broker a ceasefire between the two countries.

On Monday, he indicated Ukraine and Russian leaders would hold talks but it wasn’t clear when or how they would happen.

But even after speaking with both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday, both sides accused each other of launching attack drones overnight.

Brink said the war has left many thousands dead, including children.

In her op-ed, Brink talked about how her grandfather grew up in Charlotte and served in World War II.

“The America I love, the one our grandparents served, would never stand by and let such horrors happen.

“Or give up helping our friends. Or appease the aggressor,” she wrote.

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