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					Originally Posted by nightfighter  Pete, I read and consider your point of view often enough to almost know what rhetoric to expect in the New Posts every morning... But I had to take exception with your following post;
 Moscow first introduced "the concept of providing collective security in the Persian Gulf area" in July
 
 Believe nothing coming out of that country as long as Putin reigns. He is of same cloth as Stalin. Beware.... Not as large an economic potential problem as China, but we know who/what he is... Ex KGB, flying warplanes in the same skies as ours in support of Assad, after invading Ukraine despite the world's protests.
 |  I don’t disagree  
Though I would say Putin has far better apparatchik than Stalin  
I worry about our position in the world order that Trump is unknowingly throwing away.
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