{
  "id": 4585847,
  "title": "Trump following a long US tradition of losing a pointless war",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/trump-following-a-long-us-tradition-of-losing-a-pointless-war",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-31T05:52:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Asia Times",
    "slug": "asia-times",
    "url": "https://asiatimes.com/2026/08/trump-following-a-long-us-tradition-of-losing-a-pointless-war/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "I was born on July 20, 1944, in the midst of World War II. My father had just returned from Burma where he had been operations officer for the 1st Air Commandos in the China-India-Burma Theater. I, of course, remember nothing about that war — except that my father (on extremely rare occasions) would barely […] The post Trump following a long US tradition of losing a pointless war appeared first…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}