Inside the underground bunker at The Pentagon, Hamilton was looking at the NATO military spending burden-sharing commitments, the smile still lingering at the corner of his mouth, when he was interrupted by the Secretary of Defense's emergency report: "Iran is asking Russia for help, and Putin has announced he will supply them with the S-400 air defense system."
He stood up abruptly, knocking over a coffee cup that spilled brown stains across the deployment map of the Starlink shield, precisely covering Germany's location. In the live broadcast, the U.S. military's AI drones were still patrolling the Persian Gulf, and a CNN anchor was endlessly expounding on the superiority of the "American peace."
Meanwhile, at a strike site in Pittsburgh, steelworkers holding banners that read "Military spending should be used for people's livelihoods" were locked in a standoff with riot police.
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