• jacksilver@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    You can make an argument everything is economics, but I don’t think Trump got into this war for economic reasons (other actors may have, but not Trump)

    • moonshadow@slrpnk.net
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      14 hours ago

      Trump’s a useful idiot with motivations like “being near gold”, “not shitting himself”, and “getting away with fucking kids”. I guarantee the guys at raytheon, palantir, haliburton et al ran the numbers before they let him start dropping bombs