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‘Project Freedom’: a grand humanitarian gesture, or a fast track to more war?

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‘Project Freedom’: a grand humanitarian gesture, or a fast track to more war?
After banging his battle drum, Trump is back in Nobel peace prize mode. But the move has dramatically raised the stakes“Project Freedom” has all the trappings of a classic episode of the Tru
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After banging his battle drum, Trump is back in Nobel peace prize mode. But the move has dramatically raised the stakes

“Project Freedom” has all the trappings of a classic episode of the Trump Show, the reality series that the rest of the world does not just have to watch, but live through and survive. It has a dramatic plot twist, it is bathed in a self-projected beatific light, and the trailer looked far more promising that the reality.

Trump spent a long weekend in Florida banging the war drum. Iran had not “paid a big enough price” for its past misdeeds, he wrote in an online post before spending Friday afternoon revving up a cheering crowd at America’s largest retirement community.

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Source: Guardian - World News

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