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Old 10-11-2019, 03:38 PM   #3876
Tyrone Slothrop
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Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same

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Let’s be clear, though, 45 betrayed the Kurds because Erdogan and Putin wanted him too. Is it out of his bizarre affinity for strongman or is there more going (some of which we don’t know about in part because Manafort chose to go to jail instead of cooperate)?
Or because he got tired of national security professionals telling him it was a bad idea, at the same time that national security professionals are screwing him by creating Ukrainian problems for him, and so he acted out.

As with trying to explain the results of the 2016 election, it's overdetermined.
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