> "Yes, I was wrong to hope President #Trump would normalize relations with #Russia.  Perhaps Trump intended to do so, until the men in black knocked on his door and told him that he was not allowed to takeaway the enemy that justified the power and profit of the military/security complex."

–Paul Craig Roberts

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