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War, Distraction and the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal (6/18/26)
David Rothkopf argues that Donald Trump’s military confrontations with Venezuela and Iran were not primarily driven by national-security concerns, but by a political need to divert attention from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. The opinion column portrays the operations as “wars of distraction,” claiming the administration repeatedly shifted its stated justifications because neither country presented the imminent threat the White House alleged. Rothkopf contends that the Venezuela intervention amounted to an unlawful resource-driven shakedown, while the Iran war produced heavy casualties…
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