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Moral Compass

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8. Putin's best investment
Fri Oct 13, 2017, 11:33 AM
Oct 2017

Trump has paid off handsomely.

Putin couldn't have been completely confident that Trump would destroy American hegemony. But he has.

This creates an unprecedented power vacuum that Russia and China are eager to fill and restores Russia to major power status even though their economy is tiny compared to well...almost any country.

In 8 months Trump has undone decades of U.S. efforts to dominate politically, militarily, and diplomatically the world. Our status is shrinking daily. A key indicator is that the planned UK visit has been scaled back and Trump will not be meeting the Queen.

Sounds trivial but it that is of enormous significance.

The only thing that keeps us in the game at all is our enormous military Our military is small in number of personnel, but very, very large in high tech weaponry including a huge nuclear arsenal.

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