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yurbud

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6. he is a demagogue not a martyr

Reply to TomCADem (Original post)

Sat Apr 8, 2017, 12:27 PM

Apr 2017

You don't stop the bipartisan foreign policy consensus on something as big as control of Eurasia without risking your life.

Trump said what people wanted to hear (or if you like, what Russia wanted him to say), but has no conviction about anything and certainly not enough to risk his life.

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