The episode covers escalating military and economic tensions amid the six-month-long war with Iran, highlighting U.S. missile stockpile depletion, diplomatic efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, soaring oil profits, a deadly drone incident in Russia, worsening child malnutrition in Afg
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