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Perpetual War for Perpetual Fleece

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JD Breen
Aug 29, 2022
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Atlanta, GA

August 29, 2022

Rahm Emmanuel famously advised governments to “never let a serious crisis go to waste.”

He needn’t have worried. They rarely do, even if they create the “crisis” of which to take advantage. Which they usually do.

It’s one of the few things the State does well. And it’s gotten better at it in recent years. External threats and int…

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