Samantha Power: “I would never do anything that would infringe on U.S. sovereignty or that would interfere in any way with American law.”

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We are witnessing one of the worst and most costly foreign policy blunders in US history.

This is devastating, and it is ceding the field as well to the people's Republic of China, to the Russian Federation and other malign actors who would like nothing more than to see the US' ground game in American foreign policy -- the face…

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