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• Thursday, October 12th 2017 - 12:04 UTC

  Obama officials treated “special relationship with Britain as a joke” and liked to refer to Falklands as Malvinas

  

  The so-called special relationship between the United States and United Kingdom was regarded as a joke by Obama administration officials, a former government aide has said. Jeremy Shapiro, who served as an adviser in the US state department under Barack Obama, said the relationship was “unrequited.”