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JUSTICE MALALA: Hello Donald, bye-bye Bad Vlad
Put bluntly, South Africa will have to play Trump’s game if it wants to have any chance of beating unemployment and attracting investment
14 November 2024 - 05:00
If you listen to most US leaders, policymakers and analysts, you will quickly conclude that Russia and its leader, Vladimir Putin, are the country’s greatest enemy. Just five months ago President Joe Biden branded Putin a dictator, saying on June 6: “I’ve known [Putin] for over 40 years — he’s concerned me for 40 years ... He’s not a decent man — he’s a dictator.”
At a fundraiser in San Francisco in February, Biden insulted Putin and said he might set off a nuclear war: “We have a crazy SOB, that guy Putin and others and we always have to be worried about a nuclear conflict.”..
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