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Trump’s clash with Canada is his latest imperialistic embarrassment | Sidney Blumenthal

Venezuela can be 53rd." The room greeted several of his remarks with dead silence. Then, at his peak euphoria, he flew off to Mar-a-Lago to plan his attack on Iran, which took place 27 days later.

Trump’s clash with Canada is his latest imperialistic embarrassment | Sidney Blumenthal

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Venezuela can be 53rd." The room greeted several of his remarks with dead silence.

Then, at his peak euphoria, he flew off to Mar-a-Lago to plan his attack on Iran, which took place 27 days later.

His schemes of aggrandizement operating by threat and force are justified by no larger rationale, nothing as exalted as "the white man's burden", marauding wherever and however he can to seize resources.

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Venezuela can be 53rd." The room greeted several of his remarks with dead silence. Then, at his peak euphoria, he flew off to Mar-a-Lago to plan his attack on Iran, which took place 27 days later. His schemes of aggrandizement operating by threat and force are justified by no larger rationale, nothing as exalted as "the white man's burden", marauding wherever and however he can to seize resources.

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We're going to buy it," Donald Trump reportedly told the annual black-tie dinner on 1 February of the private Alfalfa Club, an assemblage of prominent Washington figures, a number of whom he had publicly humiliated, and others he was investigating or suing. "It's never been my intention to make Greenland the 51st state. "So many people in the room I hate," he said in a display of honesty.

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