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   > Trump seems to be keeping more quiet these days. I suspect he is getting   
   > a lot more flak than he (or the news) is letting on.   
      
   Sometime very recently, he held a meeting with Putin that ended in him   
   promising another kiss-up... the US removing itself from a list of   
   countries wanting to investigate Russia for war crimes... so he's not been   
   quiet enough.   
      
   > The other day it was mentioned here that we have a 'potential' order   
   > in to Lockheed Martin there to buy 88 F35 fighter jets, and we are   
   > under contract to buy the first 16, but the balance is still optional   
   > and the Prime Minister is talking about not buying the rest, which   
   > would cost L.M. $8.64 Billion. I may be wrong but I suspect that military   
   > contractors have a great deal of influence over the government there..   
      
   I have seen this one in the news.  Canada is on the hook for the first X   
   many, but can back out of the rest, costing Lockheed Martin a lot of   
   potential dough.  The military contractors have a lot of influence.  Since   
   Vietnam, and maybe before, they've got us stuck into a lot of wars and   
   conflicts.   
      
   > They also had the governor of Alaska on TV today basically saying that   
   > what's going on makes no sense at all. Our North and yours are very   
   > closely knit due to difficulties for both of them to get what they   
   > need without cooperating with each other.   
      
   There has been an unsubstantiated claim that Trump made a gaffe the other   
   day and reference Alaska as if it was not a state -- he supposedly talked   
   about making it the 52nd state after Canada.  That was on social media so   
   is probably a hoax.  Then again, maybe Putin has him convinced that it is   
   part of Russia and he needs to buy it from them (again).   
      
      
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