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Jack Reed: “If there is an opportunity, he takes it.”

On the recordApril 27, 2015
If there is an opportunity, he takes it.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Reed comments on Putin's opportunistic nature in international affairs.

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