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This ancient city could hardly be a more fitting setting for what has become an old-fashioned battle for respect.

The reference hardly seems accidental: Netflix was criticized for paying fake heiress Anna Sorokin a hefty fee for the rights to adapt her life story into “Inventing Anna.”

But Wednesday night with the NBA’s trade deadline a little more than a half a day away, a center did appear — and there was hardly any magic involved.

But that is hardly a US takeover, something that would require a large-scale military intervention in the Middle East - the sort of thing Trump has long told voters he wants to avoid.

For an art form hardly accepting of understatement, such a slogan is insurgent understatement.