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Keep your enemies close and publicly betray your friends

aka the Trump Doctrine

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Alex Friedman
Feb 28, 2025
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Welcome back to Hot Tip, and Slava Ukraini, my friends. I write to you deeply horrified in a deeply unfunny way about what transpired today in the Oval Office, which reporters are calling “remarkable,” and “extraordinary,” but that I will instead call “a clusterfuck so incredibly clusterfucked I am more embarrassed and ashamed to be an American than I e…

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