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On the recordMarch 8, 2017
To what extent is Russia and, for that matter, other hostile powers in the old world aiming to tie down the United States, our attention, and our resources in the new world so we cannot project power and influence into the old world?
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Tom Cotton
Republican · Arkansas

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Cotton questions Russia's strategic intentions towards the U.S. in Latin America.

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