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Trump’s Attack on US Allies

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Jun 15, 2018
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Could this be “The Manchurian Candidate” in real life? The 1962 movie, released at the height of the Cold War, was the story of a captured US soldier who was brainwashed to obey Soviet/Chinese orders to carry out assassinations and enable the takeover of the US government by an extreme right-wing senator aiming to be a dictator.

Now there is Donald Trump…

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