Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers
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I don’t think we ever seen this level of naked corruption.
I’m sure they had similar levels of corruption in the Roman, French, Russian, and Germanic empires … riiiiight before they collapsed, too.
Well, similar levels of naked corruption in what they were doing, but probably not in how much they were profiting.