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applegrove
applegrove's Journal
applegrove's Journal
October 5, 2015
Putin is doing what ISIS has done: trying to make themselves
INDISPENSABLE to people in their sphere of influence. Psychopaths love to run into a vacuum, a vacuum they may or may not have caused, and take over the Big Man/government role and become the 'source' of security to the local people. Indispensability is soon POWER. Poor Syria.