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Are you suggesting I have no shared interest with Italy? All but my

immediate family still lives there, and I pay taxes there, so yes I have a shared interest. And with maintaining a solid relationship with all of Europe for that matter.

But the source you cited suggested they would go on their own, that wasn't me calling for it. And if they do, WTF could the U.S. do to stop them? But maybe if they claim they will, the U.S. will back off their pushing them to pay their "fair share", and being mean to Angela about being dependent and funding the very beast we consider a "shared interest"? If that's just a bluff, it seems like a pretty weak hand to play to me.

But yeah, I get that it's easier to just dismiss me as a Trump Nationalist.

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Posted: 07/18/2018 at 2:04PM

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