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Trumps asks if the West has the will to survive

By Reuters
07 July 2017   |   9:05 am
At a speech in Warsaw, Poland, the U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday (July 6) that the defence of the West ultimately rests on the will of its people to prevail and questioned whether the West has the will to survive.

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