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“I’m old enough to remember a time when the USA was respected. It isn’t any more which is very sad.”
Comment: Me too. But in reality, the USA as it was simply no longer exists. What is NOT getting respected anymore is really the world gov’t, not the USA, but nobody KNOWS that.
The world gov’t (bankers) have infiltrated and absorbed the USA, (and the original US dollar) changed it all, and still doing business illegally as “US Gov’t”