Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Bob Murphy argues that Trump's aggressive foreign policy moves are best understood not as incompetence or corruption, but as a desperate strategic gamble by a national security establishment that believes America's window of global dominance is closing — drawing a parallel to Japan's decision to attack Pearl Harbor.

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