Is Trump Really Turning Into Obama?

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President Trump, after promising a radical break with the foreign policy of Barack Obama, is embracing key pillars of the former administration’s strategy, including suggesting that Israel curb construction of settlements, demanding that Russia withdraw from Crimea and threatening Iran with sanctions for ballistic-missile tests.

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Trump shifts to echo key parts of Obama foreign policy

The Trump administration demands that Russia withdraw from Crimea and threatens Iran with sanctions for its recent ballistic-missile tests.



By MARK LANDLER, PETER BAKER, and DAVID E. SANGER

The New York Times

President Trump, after promising a radical break with the foreign policy of Barack Obama, is embracing key pillars of the former administration’s strategy, including suggesting that Israel curb construction of settlements, demanding that Russia withdraw from Crimea and threatening Iran with sanctions for ballistic-missile tests.

In the most startling shift, the Trump White House issued an unexpected statement appealing to the Israeli government not to expand the construction of Jewish settlements beyond their current borders in east Jerusalem and the West Bank. Such expansion, it said, “may not be helpful in achieving” the goal of peace.

At the United Nations, Ambassador Nikki Haley said the U.S. would not…

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