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Today is the day—The Trillion Dollar War Machine is out! Pick up your copy at the link in bio or below 👇
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Ben Freeman
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Ben Freeman
@BenFreemanDC
Director, Democratizing Foreign Policy @quincyinst. Foreign influence, $ in politics. Co-author of The Trillion Dollar War Machine (order at link in bio).
Washington, D.C. Katılım Mayıs 2011
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Trump's decision to go to war can't be understood by looking at U.S. national security interests.
The best explanation is to examine Israel's strong desire to drag the U.S. into this war and the control that pro-Israel donors hold over American foreign policy.
We are in the grip of a foreign power. [link below]
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One of the debaters is from an org that has accepted more money from Pentagon contractors than any other think tank in the U.S. The other is from a think tank that has taken $0 from them.
Tune in to see if you can figure out who's who!
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The Quincy Institute’s @tparsi and the Atlantic Council’s @MatthewKroenig will join FP Live today at 12:00PM ET for a debate about the justifications for the Iran war. Tune in here: foreignpolicy.com/live/kroenig-p…
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@sfrantzman Is it now? How do you know this? I've shared a lot of meals with active-duty service members (will be dining with some tonight, in fact) and can't recall lobster tail ever being on the menu.
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@BenFreemanDC The lobster is for the troops. It’s interesting how American soldiers eating lobster is seen as a problem among some
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American families: we're struggling to put food on the table
Hegseth: let them eat lobster
Nick Cleveland-Stout@nick_clevelands
Hegseth spent $7 million of taxpayer money on lobster tail just before millions of Americans lost SNAP benefits
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I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
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The United States alone comprises about 40% of world military spending. Including our treaty allies, it’s about 67%.
If that’s not enough, we have a strategy problem, not a spending problem.
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EXCLUSIVE-AS MANY AS 150 U.S. TROOPS WOUNDED SO FAR IN IRAN WAR, TWO SOURCES FAMILIAR WITH THE MATTER TELL REUTERS
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.@SenBlumenthal remarks after Iran briefing: "I emerged from this briefing dissatisfied and angry frankly that I have for any past briefing in my 15 years in the Senate.. We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran."
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Dozens of senior national security officials turned Pentagon contractor executives flock to the secretive Bohemian Grove every summer, according to membership and camp attendance lists. Recognize any of these names?
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“I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us.”
-Alex Karp, CEO of a company building AI systems for U.S. military and intelligence agencies.
This is the worldview shaping the new military-tech complex🧵
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Podcast: BILL HARTUNG & BEN FREEMAN-TRILLION DOLLAR WAR MACHINE-Trump likes using it - Links to podcast, articles: bit.ly/4suILHO - any time at ApplePodcasts, YouTube. & terrencemcnally.net - Sun 3/8 8pPT at ProgressiveVoicesNetwork on TuneI
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It took the US 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban, but only 9 days to replace Khamenei with Khamenei
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"The central assumption underpinning President Trump’s diplomacy with Iran and his subsequent warmaking was that Tehran was on the verge of collapse...One week in, it seems clear that that assumption was wrong."
- QI's @tparsi in @nytopinion today
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Capitol Hill Republicans are about to confront a staggering price tag for Trump’s Middle East war.
Some GOP lawmakers are hearing estimates that the Pentagon is spending as much as $2 billion a day.
politico.com/news/2026/03/0…
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If the think tank @CSIS was really concerned about munitions supplies, they could have pointed out that giant defense contractors like Lockheed and RTX were spending way more on stock buybacks than R&D.
But contractors are CSIS' funders, so here we are.
readsludge.com/2026/03/05/def…
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"The big takeaway from these numbers is that the new war in Iran is very unpopular. Not merely negative-number-so-what unpopular, but worst-ever-support-for-war-when-it-started unpopular." @gelliottmorris
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Quoted in this piece on how think tank experts pushing for investment in missile production and defense are often funded by Lockeed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon
David Moore@ppolitics
Experts with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (@CSIS) will appear on your media and say they're concerned about munitions stockpiles. They won't say that the defense contractors that give them millions spent lavishly on stock buybacks. readsludge.com/2026/03/05/def…
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