Topic: costs of war

Donald Trump during a press conference at the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey, July 8, 2026. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The tyrant's playbook

Andrea Mazzarino
As crew members stand on the deck, the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford heads to the Norfolk, Va., naval station on Friday, April 14, 2017 after almost a week of builder's trials during which the ships systems were tested. (Bill Tiernan/The Virginian-Pilot via AP) (AP)

Bearing witness to the costs of war

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com
US Army 2nd Battalion, 10th Regiment, 10th Brigade UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters take off during a joint US-Romanian air assault exercise at the Mihail Kogalniceanu airbase, eastern Romania, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) (AP)

William D. Hartung