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We Have a Grudge Against Russia
The vast majority of Ethiopian Americans all live in Washington, D.C., L.A., and New York. If they all lived in Pennsylvania or Ohio, then every four years we might be treated to politicians going on about how America's national security depends on us turning the screws on Eritrea. Or take Russia. It might look like we have a grudge against Russia if you've turned on the TV over the last few years, but really until the media managed to convince half the people in the country that hating Vladimir Putin was the same thing as hating Donald Trump. And meaning I tend to like Russia. But then I was never a subject of the Soviet Empire.