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The War Is the Message: When Did We Stop Asking Why?

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Penn Station, Pa. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Not how a war is being fought. Not whether the munitions are precise enough, or the exit strategy coherent enough. But why? What is the actual goal? Is it achievable? And is there any path that doesn’t require killing people to get there? Somewhere along the way, this became an impolite question. The Iraq War — built on fabrications, sold with PowerPoint slides about weapons that didn’t …

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The Trump Administration is able to say on the same day that the targets are "almost complete" and that "the operation has only just begun," after having stated that the bombings could last up to 8 weeks or that they will not end until there is a government that collaborates with WashingtonTrump's objectives claims to have sunk 10 ships with mines in Ormuz and threaten Iran with "never seen consequences" if it does not remove the mines that it c…

·Spain
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Donald Trump has always measured the success of his mandate by the level of the stock exchange indexes and the progress of the economy, by the cost of gasoline. When the Dow Jones went into barrage on Monday and oil prices skyrocketed by the war against Iran, the President of the United States launched to proclaim a very close end to the conflict. But with turbulence in the calmest markets a day later, the messages in his administration are agai…

·Spain
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The US President is optimistic: the Iran war will soon end. That would also be helpful. Markets are panicking, the German economy is already hitting the conflict hard.

·Düsseldorf, Germany
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Over the past decade, Donald Trump has shown that he is a master at playing with the media, world leaders, opposition within his country and...

·Madrid, Spain
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Donald Trump declared on Monday that the war against Iran was almost over. Then no. The assault will continue. Through virulent statements and contradictory signals, the US president gave the impression of leading an orchestra without partition, in this second week of war.

·Montreal, Canada
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La Presse broke the news in Montreal, Canada on Monday, March 9, 2026.
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