The Trumpian Doom Loop and How the Iran War Speeds It Up

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Reed Galen discusses the impact of the Iran conflict on the US economy, politics, and society.

Before you do anything else, like, subscribe, and rate The Home Front 5 stars! Today, Reed Galen discusses the impact of the Iran conflict on the US economy, politics, and society, highlighting the costs of war and political priorities and why wanting to spend money at home, here in the USA, is not socialism, but commonsense. Articles Mentioned My Original Commentary How Much Tax Money Pays Interest on Our Debt John Della Volpe's Article on Younger Americans and Iran Cost of Tomahawk Missiles Costs to Send a Child K-12 Other Links Reed Galen on Substack - The Home Front - https://reedgalen.substack.com/ Tomahawk Missile - Raytheon - https://www.rtx.com/ US Navy Missile Operations - https://www.navy.mil/ Understanding US Military Spending - Congressional Budget Office - https://www.cbo.gov/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Reed Galen

Topics covered

• Iran conflict
• US economy
• politics
• society
• cost of war
• political priorities

Keywords

• Iran conflict
• US economy
• politics
• cost of war
• political priorities
• Tomahawk missiles
• military spending

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Raytheon, US Navy, Congressional Budget Office

Places: USA

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