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#335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump

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I Wish to Stop. She'd Leave Out Her Nursing Books

In 1983, we came extraordinarily close to a nuclear conflict. I was very lucky that the region that I grew up, County Durham, despite the massive decline, deindustrialization and the complete collapse of the local government system still maintain money for education. And they also paid for exchange programs with cities in Germany and France also in Russia. So it was an idea that I could go on exchanges, I could learn languages, I study German, I study French. The Soviets misread the intentions of a series of exercises, operation, airball archer that the United States was conducting. They actually thought that the U.S. might be preparing for first nuclear strike on that then set up a

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