Operation Epic Fury, Brought To You By Nicotine

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Traders on Kalshi and Polymarket probably didn’t have “nicotine” listed on their mention markets for the Department of War (DoW) briefing last Wednesday by Pete Hegseth and General “Raizin” Caine. While speaking to the press about the two-week ceasefire in Iran, Caine quipped that U.S. forces enacting Operation Epic Fury had consumed over six million meals, 950,000 gallons of coffee, two million energy drinks and “a lot of nicotine.”

It was a funny and revealing moment for the well-respected Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to share offhand that American troops and the high command are guzzling a consumer product that still incenses certain regulators and prohibitionist politicians. France now threatens jail time for nicotine pouch use, as well as Costa Rica—both countries are treating nicotine as dangerous, begging the question of how Tucker Carlson is alive when he professes to routinely taking nicotine. (RELATED: Tucker........

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