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Jiang speculates that generals may have leaked the top-secret plan after Trump accepted what they expected to be an obviously impossible uranium-seizure proposal, and that refusal to execute it may have led Peter Hexner to fire them.
"the question is, wait a minute here. This is a top secret military plan. How did the Washington Post get this? Well, the answer..."
"screwed, man. And they refused to carry it out. So Peter Hexner is like, well, then you're fired. Okay? And then Peter Hexner orders..."
A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
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