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Pakistan: The Subtext of Trump's New Year's Tweet

Jan 2, 2018 | 22:52 GMT

(Stratfor)

An end to America's longest running war isn't getting any closer. The antagonism between the United States and Pakistan -- the two most consequential foreign actors in Afghanistan -- continues to grow. On Jan. 1, U.S. president Donald Trump fired off his first tweet of 2018, saying that the United States has received nothing but "lies & deceit" in return for the over $33 billion in aid it has provided to Pakistan over the past 16 years. Later that day, the White House announced it would continue withholding $255 million in foreign military financing that had been designated for Pakistan in 2016, but not delivered....

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