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The White House is showing its true colors on Ukraine. While imposing biting trade tariffs on 185 countries this week, the Trump administration quietly lifted travel sanctions on one of Vladimir Putin’s closest advisers so he could come to Washington for talks. Kirill Dmitriev is the Russian president’s money man as head of the country’s sovereign wealth fund. He was making the first visit by a Russian official to the US capital since Putin’s invasion of Ukraine three years ago. This was the latest sign that President Donald Trump dreams of a new US business relationship with Russia — even as he launches a trade war against the wealthier and more diverse economies of US allies. But the visit was not the only tell about Trump’s position this week. The president also laid into Zelensky, accusing him of sabotaging the latest draft of a long-delayed agreement that would give the…