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'World War III' Trends as Hawks Rejoice at Trump Decision to Assassinate Iranian Military Leader

Barnett Rubin, director of CIC’s Afghanistan-Pakistan Research Project, was quoted in a Common Dreams article about the assassination of Qassem Soleimani.

“I don’t see any way to stop what is coming, war from the Mediterranean to the Indus and harsh repression in the U.S. that may vitiate the 2020 election. This is the test for the Democrats: have our leaders learned anything since 2003? I fear the answer,” Rubin wrote on Twitter.

Read the full article at Common Dreams here.

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