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Dalton: We’ve Gotten Ourselves Into a Forever War
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A candidate calling the Iran conflict a forever war highlights prolonged geopolitical risk, supporting oil risk premia and defense spending.
Forever-war framing keeps geopolitical risk in focus
Escalation or ceasefire developments
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Bale Dalton, US Navy Reserve Captain, Democratic Nominee for Florida's 7th Congressional and former NASA Chief of Staff, says the war with Iran has become a “forever war” with no strategic value or defined end state. Dalton says deploying a third aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East puts
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