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NuclearDem

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23. Given that he's KGB and has invaded two former Soviet republics so far

Tue May 10, 2016, 05:41 PM

May 2016

I'm just going to go ahead and lump him in with his Soviet predecessors where he wants to be.

He's even picking up where they left off, with propping up a puppet regime by bombing Muslim insurgents.

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