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“Obviously, it takes money to kill bad guys,” said Pete Hegseth, when asked about the funding request.
Since World War II, the U.S. has rarely, if ever, attacked so many places. “All war. All the time. Everywhere,” one source put it.
“My kids’ kids, and probably their kids, are going to be paying for this,” said one official briefed on the U.S war on Iran.
Despite attempts by Trump to claim otherwise, the U.S. military was responsible for killing at least 175 in a strike on a school in Iran.
“It would be inappropriate to comment given the incident is under investigation,” CENTCOM told The Intercept.
“The administration doesn’t have a clue. They do not have an actual, real rationale, endgame, or plan for the aftermath of this.”
Two government officials told The Intercept that the joint U.S.–Ecuador military action won’t just be a one-off raid.
Israel’s plan to strike Iran would put American lives at risk, Rubio said. Rather than confronting Israel, the U.S. joined their war.
An Intercept analysis finds that every single Board of Peace member state has been rebuked for human rights violations.
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Eschewing a U.S.-style double-tap strike, the Cuban government rescued survivors.
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Federal agents have reportedly been leaving “death cards” at the sites of immigration raids and assaults.
Law enforcement sources told The Intercept that Noem’s tale about a cannibal was a fabrication.
The amount of military forces gathering near Iran dwarfs even the monthslong build-up before the U.S. coup in Venezuela.
The Trump administration is sending more troops to a region where U.S. military presence has coincided with increased violence.
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