U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has flooded the zone with nominations for key national security positions that raise questions even among longtime Republican foreign-policy hands about the U.S. approach in a second Trump administration.

Trump campaigned on promises to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, to start a global trade war, to use the U.S. military in controversial and even illegal ways to enforce his immigration plans at home, and to use the Justice Department to settle personal scores. His early picks for top posts bear out plans to make those promises reality, and some of them have sparked concern even in a Washington that will be entirely in Republican hands.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has flooded the zone with nominations for key national security positions that raise questions even among longtime Republican foreign-policy hands about the U.S. approach in a second Trump administration.

Trump campaigned on promises to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, to start a global trade war, to use the U.S. military in controversial and even illegal ways to enforce his immigration plans at home, and to use the Justice Department to settle personal scores. His early picks for top posts bear out plans to make those........

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