Bernie Sanders acknowledged Thursday that most people have no idea what his foreign policy goals are, and the explanation he gave sounded a lot like President Obama.
“The United States cannot do it alone," Sanders said. "We cannot be the policemen of the world.”
That's something Obama has said before, and this isn't the only Sanders answer that sounds a little Obama-esque.
“We have got to work in strong coalition with the major powers of the world and with those Muslim countries that are prepared to stand up to take on terrorism," Sanders said.
Obama has been a big proponent of a coalition of nations engaged in attacking the Islamic State, the extremist group in Iraq and Syria that freely subjugates and murders people in the territory it controls.
But while Sanders seemed to rely on some Obama fundamentals for parts of his mini foreign policy speech, he also bungled other parts.
While he said North Korea represents the greatest threat to America, he didn't seem to know who led the nation.
This is working out well: Sanders: "North Korea is a very strange situation...It is run by a handful of dictators -- or maybe just one."— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) February 5, 2016
The answer Sanders gave to that question also broke with Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, who recently said Russia was the greatest threat to the United States.