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Great analysis. Few are able to negotiate as Trump is with Putin and Xi. At least Bolton and Lindsey Graham aren’t involved we’d definitely be in a massive war. 🙏🇺🇸

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Ya. Normally graham goes with whoever is in charge including in 2017. Wonder what changed?

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Great analysis!

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Here is what I think Trump is doing (other than talking some typical trash)

A. The Russians are winning, and going to win

B. They will capture all of the areas that they consider "Russian" very soon.

C. Right when their victory is imminent, Trump's team will enter into talks to "end the bloodshed", and manage to come to a peace agreement, right when the Russians have completed their primary mission.

D. Everybody declares victory, nobody loses face, and the end.

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According to Russia that end is roughly a month away as they take more territory and have less need to negotiate anything

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He just made a big U-turn on a federal funding policy that, were it to have been thought through a little more, made absolute sense.

And if he had either the sanity or vanity of his convictions then he should have been more like Margaret Thatcher---who had balls!!!

.When ‘ol Maggie made a set of policies that were unpopular back in the day, her own ministers and others said that she needed to make a U-turn. She stood in front of all those powerful men and uttered a phrase for the ages: “The lady’s not for turning.”

And she meant it!

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Ah yes the glory days of the great Brutish Empire , when it could still pretend it had some influence in the world, led by hatchet faced harridan who gloriously won the great battle of the Falkland island ( or was there more than one?) A truly great accomplishment, that and accelerating its decline into the third world country it is now. Glory days indeed.

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Looks like the EU is fading into the abyss

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Given it seems to be the main source of truly anti-human values in the world (via the EU) and the enshrining of these in law, and then haranguing those nations that don’t acknowledge their “moral superiority” , the sooner the better.

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