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The language of numbers is a useful tool for helping think about big things.

Try asking this at your table: How much money would you guess that the nation of Iran has invested over forty years in the singular effort to destroy Israel? How many people would you guess have been involved – full time – in this “Project” ???

I put these two questions into an AI-bot to crunch the numbers. Here are some results:

For comparison, that “investment” represents the sum of three years’ wages for every Iranian family. It could have fed every Iranian for six........

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