all flavors. How did a Polymarket user know that Lady Gaga, Cardi B, and Ricky MarEn would make surprise appearances during the Super Bowl halTime show, but that Drake and Travis ScoR wouldn’t? Shady bets on war are even stranger and more disturbing. They risk unleashing an enErely new kind of naEonal-security threat. The U.S. caught a break: The Venezuela and Iran strikes were not thwarted by insider traders whose bets could have prompted swiT retaliaEon. The next Eme, we may not be so lucky.
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The aRacks in Venezuela and Iran—like so many military campaigns—were conducted under the guise of secrecy. You don’t swoop in on an adversary when they know you are coming. The Venezuela raid was reportedly so confidenEal that Pentagon officials did not know about its exact Eming unEl a few hours before President Trump gave the orders. Any insiders who put money down on impending war may not have thought that they were giving anything away. An anonymous bet that reeks of insider trading is not always easy to spot in the moment. ATer the suspicious Polymarket bets on the Venezuela raid, the site’s forecast placed the odds that Maduro would be
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