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Endnotes<br />
1 Allison Quinn, “Vladimir Putin: 'We don't want the USSR back but no one believes us,”<br />
London Telegraph, December 21, 2015.<br />
2 Fiona Hill, “This Is What Putin Really Wants,” National Interest, February 24, 2015.<br />
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/what-putin-really-wants-12311<br />
3 John McCain, “Obama Has Made America Look Weak,” New York Times, March 14, 2014.<br />
4 “Joint Statement from the Department of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of<br />
National Intelligence on Election Security,” Director of National Intelligence, October 7,<br />
2016. https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/215-press-releases-<br />
2016/1423-joint-dhs-odni-election-security-statement<br />
5 Will Dunham, “Kerry condemns Russia's 'incredible act of aggression' in Ukraine,” Reuters,<br />
March 2, 2014. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-usa-kerryidUSBREA210DG20140302<br />
6 Stephen Pifer, “George W. Bush Was Tough on Russia? Give Me a Break, Politico, March<br />
24, 2016. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/03/bush-georgia-obamaukraine-104929<br />
7 Putin almost certainly considers the Baltic states as falling within Russia’s sphere of<br />
influence and greatly resents decisions by Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia to join the EU<br />
and NATO. There have been growing concerns by Baltic leaders that Russia could<br />
attempt incursions into their states similar to its 2014 intervention in Ukraine. These<br />
concerns have been amplified by a growing number of naval incidents in the Baltic Sea<br />
between Russian and NATO vessels and violations of Baltic airspace by Russian fighters.<br />
8 See David Albright, Andrea Stricker, and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini, “Analysis of the<br />
IAEA’s Report on the PMD of Iran’s Nuclear Program,” Institute for Science and<br />
International Security, December 8, 2015. http://isis-online.org/isisreports/detail/analysis-of-the-iaeas-report-on-the-pmd-of-irans-nuclear-program/8<br />
9 For more on the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, see Fred Fleitz, “Obamabomb: A Dangerous<br />
and Growing National Security Fraud,” Center for Security Policy, 2016.<br />
10 This was actually not the first example of Syrian chemical weapons use in 2013 – there was<br />
credible evidence of this in April 2013 but the Obama administration did not act on this<br />
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