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Feel like I just left a foreign policy class at the former Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs...thanks for the brilliant context.

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"honey traps to meet every conceivable Republican sexual taste"—are there enough hookers in Russia to meet that need?

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Hey, new girl here. You've got a real talent for writing pieces that are lengthy and information-dense yet eminently readable (and with just the right dash of off-color zingers to tie it together).

"Insult" is English-language medical argot for anything that causes damage, physical and/or mental, to the body.

A stroke / ischemic event is just one of innumerably many "insults" to the human organism; I wonder whether there's a good story behind the migration of this word into Russian specifically to mean just that one.

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Unable to grasp the difference between a military alliance for common defense and one of his golf resorts, the President of the United States simply does not understand why other countries refuse to pay dues directly to him, so he has made no secret of his desire to pull as many resources away from the pact as he can, with or without the assent of our partners or even of our own government.

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