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THIS STORY IS SCORED

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Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0

The logic here runs on one gear: whatever happens, someone else owes us for it, and the bill is retroactive by generations. Note the construction — should, and will — which is how a man converts a wish into a prophecy without passing through the tedious stage of asking anyone. A president who cannot get a word like conflagration past the spellcheck is nevertheless confident he can dun the entire community of nations, none of whom have signed anything, for a war he is simultaneously calling a scam. If it is a scam, it is unclear why the world should pay for it; if the world should pay for it, it is unclear why it is a scam.