How to Lose Wars and Tank the Economy

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Aug 27, 202626:18News & Politics

From the trade war with Canada to the literal war with Iran, US foreign policy seems to have become “flail at whatever Trump says to flail at, no matter the cost.” But the American people are the ones left holding that b...

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