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Published on June 14, 2018 by Gary Grappo

Trump in Ottawa and Singapore: The World Turned Upside Down

Published first at Fair Observer on June 13, 2018

The American president hasn’t just turned his back on and disparaged his country’s strongest allies — he embraced one of its worst sworn enemies. Legend has it that in 1781, at the formal surrender ceremony following George Washington and the American revolutionaries’ decisive defeat of the British Army under Lord General Charles Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia, […]

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