🌐 Global Economy 4d ago · Menzie Chinn

Mr. Trump on the US-Iran War

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Speaking at a rally in Nebraska (NYT), regarding the Iranians:
“They could take out a city,” he said. “Let them take — Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.”

One could take this as just further random ruminations, but it strikes me that the president has in principle access to the entire output of the US intelligence community (even if he doesn’t seemingly heed the warnings).
At a time when counterterrorism resources have been redirected to immigration control, or re

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