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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