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On the recordMarch 5, 2014
He reserves the right to resort to economic blackmail and, in Georgia in 2008, and now Ukraine, military intervention to keep his neighbors in line.
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Scott Perry
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Perry warns about Putin's tactics to maintain control over neighboring countries.

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