Mr. Trump has managed to say both “Crimea has been taken” and Putin is “not going into Ukraine.” I will not attempt to untangle the contradictions contained therein, but I will point out for the Republican presidential nominee that Crimea is, in fact, Ukrainian territory. Either Mr. Trump’s unnamed, unknown, unsourced foreign policy advisors are not serving him well or he has an agenda that does not include support for the people of Ukraine or the basic, long-held protection of the sovereign borders of Europe.
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Gerry Connolly: Trump and Crimea – from Russia with Love
I do not particularly care that Donald Trump personally admires Vladimir Putin. Everyone needs a role model. However, Mr. Trump's stunning naiveté of the crisis in Ukraine has allowed him to adopt policies that are so foreign they are almost Russian.