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The one question no one seems to be asking Donald Trump

War as Budget, Budget as WarThe Reporting, Stripped DownThe source argues that Donald Trump is normalizing a rolling cycle of threats, interventions, and open-ended militarism, with Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Greenland, and Somalia all treated as interchangeable theaters. It also ties that posture to a ballooning Pentagon budget, fossil-fuel politics, climate damage, and the grotesque concentration of wealth embodied by Elon Musk’s billionaire status. The piece’s main claim is clear: this is not drift. It is a governing logic.Who Holds PowerThe actual institutional power sits with the presidency…

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