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By contrast, Putin and Xi Jinping, like all autocrats, are only interested in expanding their power to feed their enormous egos. Trump was, of course, of the same stripe but he ran into a country with strong democratic traditions and institutions. But people all over have the same capability of being fooled so he’s still dangerous.

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Granted, these days they don’t always turn out the way we wish them to but that’s our goal. Recently, we usually go in overestimating our ability to change things for the better. Only in simple cases, like Grenada, does it work. But it worked during WW II, where we played a major role in ridding the world of Fascism at that time.

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