Fighting erupted in Ukraine after many months of uneasy but consistent calm after Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the U.S. and Russian presidents, finally spoke for the first time last weekend by telephone. Instantly, the Trump White House is faced with one of the tough foreign policy questions that proved quite beyond Barack Obama's capacities. By most accounts, Ukraine wasn't a major topic during the Trump–Putin exchange, but Trump has a major policy judgment on his hands now.
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