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How a MAGA influencer with ties to Russia became Trump’s Arctic adviser

and abroad, it's not always clear where the administration's agenda ends and his own begins.

How a MAGA influencer with ties to Russia became Trump’s Arctic adviser

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and abroad, it's not always clear where the administration's agenda ends and his own begins.

As Thomas Dans holds forth in the U.S. and abroad, it's not always clear where the administration's agenda ends and his own begins.

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and abroad, it's not always clear where the administration's agenda ends and his own begins.

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