CL Iran's twelfth night of strikes came with a figure that makes a hearing necessary: thirty seven billion dollars was put to a defense secretary, who could not account for how it had been spent. Committees will study the tab. The war will continue to run up the bill.-- CL

MB Trump has scrapped his own nuclear rules for the Saudis. Airstrikes now run in three languages at once. Zelensky just fired the general who stood between him and his own army. Officials keep insisting it's all under control, at exactly the volume that says it isn't., MB-- MB