"It's a military exercise, okay?"
🌏 21 dead officially acknowledged
🌏 81 US aircraft lost or damaged
🌏 Camp Buehring abandoned — troops fled into the Kuwaiti desert
🌏 Patriot stocks down from ~3,100 to ~800
🌏 $43.6 billion spent — running $246 million a day
Trump called it an exercise because "war" is a word that requires accountability, and "exercise" is a word that doesn't.
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