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KoKo

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4. Not much different from Obama having to deal with RW NutJobs in Congress or the
Sat Apr 5, 2014, 02:38 PM
Apr 2014

NeoCons that infest our Foreign Policy.

Politicians have to deal with those influences. Obama has Wall Street Big Money shaping his policy just as Putin has his Russian Oligarchs to deal with along with the Gas & Oil business and the Western Companies that drill.

So...I just can't put this all on Putin as the next "Stalin in waiting" any more than Obama is Bush II.

Just saying....

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