This walks through the Iran trade scandal the way you'd walk through an architecture review: inputs, outputs, dependencies, and what happens when monitoring goes dark. DOJ Public Integrity reduced to 2 people, CFTC investigation closed, SEC enforcement director forced out, then six fresh Polymarket wallets cash out $1.2M on a classified military operation and someone loads $580M in oil futures right before a market-moving Truth Social post.
This was clearly on the horizon 12+ months past when the safeguards were being gutted.
Timothy D. Snyder and that circle of American historians were calling it out even before, on the basis of close reading the Project 2025 document and other signs.
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Timothy D. Snyder and that circle of American historians were calling it out even before, on the basis of close reading the Project 2025 document and other signs.