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    Was Obama Too Soft on Russia?

    President Trump is not the first to make this claim.
    by Krishnadev Calamur Feb 15, 2017 4 minutes
    Source: Sputnik Photo Agency / Reuters

    President Trump on Thursday appeared to suggest that his immediate predecessor’s Russia policy resulted in Russian’s invasion and annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014.

    As a candidate, Donald Trump suggested he would recognize the annexation—a position his spokesman, Sean Spicer, contradicted Tuesday when he said Trump “expects the Russian government to … return Crimea.” But leaving aside confusion about the current administration’s Russia policy, is Trump right about the previous one’s?

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