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A deadly force is brewing — and it’s not caused by the climate.

A deadly force, intensifying as it goes, claiming lives and destabilizing nations. Hurricane Melissa’s assault on the Caribbean was devastating. So is Donald Trump’s extrajudicial bombing campaign.

When Melissa hit Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic, we saw heart-rending pictures of homes underwater, families wading through muck, and hospitals with their roofs blown off. The compassion we felt was real, the urgency high, and for a news cycle or two, the media made the world pay attention.

But not too far from Melissa’s flood zone, another kind of disaster has been unfolding in comparative media quiet. This one is caused not by climate, but by our autocratic president, who gave us two month’s........

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