Everyone asked the same question: “Why did you come anyway

In Trabzon I met Tony, a 60-year-old retired English college lecturer, now an expat here. He said we Yanks had stood beside his Brits many times, and they would stand by us now. He said we should just wipe out the nest of vipers. Then he told me the United States would have been better off if we had never left the British Empire. ................
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