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If there was any doubt that U.S. President Donald Trump is operating outside all norms of law and common sense, he put it to rest this week with a letter to the prime minister of Norway. “Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace,” Trump wrote. “The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.”

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Add to that Trump’s billion-dollar grift known as the “Board of Peace” with a membership fee of US$1 billion and an invite list that includes Russian President Vladimir Putin, and world leaders are realizing (if they hadn’t already) that they are dealing not with a rational actor, but an egomaniacal gangster. Trump will do and say whatever he wants. His word is meaningless, and any deals he makes can be changed on a dime.

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