Trump's Crimea proposal would end a decade of US resistance - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : And in 2020, Trump supported Morocco's 45-year claim to rule Western Sahara in exchange for Morocco's diplomatic recognition of Israel.
57% : Samuel Charap, an analyst and Ukraine specialist at the RAND Corp., said that Trump has a track record of granting recognition to long-disputed territorial claims.
50% : In July 2018, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued an official "Crimea Declaration" pledging that the nonrecognition policy would remain "until Ukraine's territorial integrity is restored." Now, in his effort to negotiate an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine, Trump is prepared to walk away from that declaration -- and more than a decade of U.S. policy.
34% : But Trump later appeared to draw a distinction between recognition of Crimea as Russian by Ukraine, where public opinion would make that step all but impossible, and by the United States.
32% : "Nobody is asking Zelenskyy to recognize Crimea as Russian Territory," Trump wrote.
28% : But Trump never followed through and even doubled down against Moscow.

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