The author also speculates that maybe President Trump is personally profiting from using the MOAB. That shows a complete lack of understanding along with advanced paranoia. This is not a production weapon like TLAM, where we are likely to order more as replacements when they are used. We only built 17, back in 2003, and the unused 15 have been in storage since then. There is no reason to believe we will replace one or that any private company would profit beyond a trivial amount if we did build a few more.
The article’s a word salad consisting of every Prog meme for the last ten years. It’s indicative of nothing more than the author’s inability to draft an original sentence.