BuzzFeed - Rob Kim / Getty Images WASHINGTON â There aren't many more incongruous places for an antiwar Democratic presidential candidate who supports leaving Bashar al-Assad in power and developing closer ties with Venezuela to appear than the annual forum for the Foreign Policy Initiative, a hawkish right-leaning Washington think tank. But this is precisely where Lincoln Chafee, the former Rhode Island senator and governor who is currently polling at 0.2% in the most recent Real Clear Politics average, spent his Thursday afternoon. Chafee, who arrived at the conference a couple hours in advance of his onstage conversation with FPI policy director David Adesnik, treated the crowd to a full look at his foreign policy positions which are to the left of likely every single other person running for president. Chafee used to be a Republican and switched parties in 2007. Chafee supports lifting sanctions against Russia in response to its hostilities in Ukraine. He openly states that Sy
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