In the past few days, renewed fighting has broken out in southeastern Ukraine. It’s Donald Trump’s second major foreign-policy test as president. (The first was last weekend’s U.S. Special Operations raid against al-Qaeda.)This escalation is not surprising. For weeks, Ukrainian forces have been strengthening their positions around Russia’s separatist enclave in Ukraine. Fearful that Trump might accept Putin’s annexation of Ukrainian territory as part of some misconceived deal, Ukraine sought to show its teeth. The Russians, however, have not sat idle. In a clear escalation since Trump’s initial phone call with Putin, pro-Russian separatists and their Russian military allies have …read more
Source: National Review
