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Their wordsAny company planning such a project needs to believe that its contracts, and the political and social stability required to preserve them, will last for a decade or more.
Their wordsVenezuela is shaping up to be the most extensive of the Trump administration's corrupt schemes, further proof of something I've written before: American foreign policy is being hijacked for the benefit of Trump, his family and his business partners, to the detriment of American security and prosperity.
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