His jaunty voice-over takes us through that long and winding journey, often pausing to fool us along the way the implication being that we, too, are his patsies, along with all the insurance companies, financial institutions, and officers of the law who fall prey to his wiles.

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Sooner or later a big enough fool will always come along.

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And now, along the southern edge of Russia itself, an array of tiny nations seems to be making a fool of the old imperial power and killing Russian civilians to boot.

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