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Inside the Trump trick: The trillion-dollar potential hoax behind new drama

War, Shortages, and the Old Grift of Manufactured UrgencyThe “Crisis” Is Doing Political WorkThe reporting starts with a familiar Washington drama: Trump is said to be furious that his Iran war has burned through U.S. missile stockpiles, while the Pentagon scrambles and cable news treats the shortage as the headline. That is the surface. The political story is underneath it. A White House that chose escalation is now using the consequences of escalation to justify more spending, fewer limits, and less scrutiny.Power Sat Where It Always DoesThis was not an accident distributed evenly across…

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