Trump confirms he will ask Congress for $200bn to fund war on Iran, calling it ‘a small price to pay’ – US politics live
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/mar/19/donald-trump-iran-bondi-epstein-mullin-japan-takaichi-save-voter-id-latest-news-updates
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BigMacHole@thelemmy.club · 70 pts · 163d
Good! I LOVE eliminating my CHILDRENS SCHOOL MEALS so we can fund ANOTHER War!
-Fiscally Responsible Republicans who voted for Trump to AVOID War!
CameronDev@programming.dev · 64 pts · 163d
~$570 per person. And that's the starting amount, it'll go up.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 163d
These figures don't count a lot of legacy costs to these conflicts either. Which skyrocket with injuries to soldiers and the like.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 163d
They also don't count the economic and social costs of the long-term fuel and food shortages and supply chain disruptions this war will cause.
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 25 pts · 163d
But just think of the profits for department of war contractors like open ai, nvidia, and palantir.
CameronDev@programming.dev · 21 pts · 163d
Not to mention the traditional crowd (Lockheed, Boeing etc)
Nvidia has a lot to learn, GPUs are buy once, cry once. Munitions are disposable, and need to be replaced. When nvidia manages to fit a H100 in the body of a missile, the real money printing begins :)
kautau@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 163d
And the oil companies! Their profits are skyrocketing
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 163d
But we don't have the money for universal health care, aids research, or educations...bcz we need to blow up more elementary schools.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 32 pts · 163d
And yet, Americans still aren't ready to do anything to stop this fucker.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 163d
What do you suggest? How are we to "stop this fucker," right now? 2024 was the time to do that, and we decided to let the most unpopular person we could find run a status quo campaign as a continuation of an unpopular administration.
Zirconium@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 163d
I've been able to get involved and in touch with people who help run 50501 locally, it's hard work for little payoff. In order to plan for a general strike and protest would take weeks in advance, we're just now getting organized and mobilized (especially in a southern city where the economy hasn't been impacted too bad). People really underestimate the work and time it takes to get anything done
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 163d
Thanks for your effort. Organization is the ONLY thing we can do that will help right now, other than creating new types of social media, long story though don't want to get into it right now. Fediverse could work, but new types, with better rules fairly enforced and immune to government and business hooks.
mrdown@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 163d
The time was after vietnam. Not a single war criminal should have gotten away from war of agressions.
darkdemize@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 163d
I believe you mean the DNC decided, because I never wanted Harris or Biden before her. I voted for them, but only because there was no better option after the sham primaries we were handed.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 163d
Don't blame me either, I voted for kodos too.
Those same ivy league aristocrats are still in control of the party. And the sheep still trust them, and they've armies of chatbots and trolls to drown out criticism on mainline social media. With plenty of real people sincerely thinking it's my fault for not believing hard enough.
SulaymanF@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 163d
Put more pressure on Congress. They really aren’t getting enough lately, honestly. They could assert their war powers at any moment.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 163d
There is a an epidemic of lead deficiency in this country that's for sure.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 5 pts · 163d
biden was the best president of my lifetime. realize any followup is going to result in me demanding you rank carter through trump. so you can't use unpopular compared to imaginary presidents.
bufalo1973@piefed.social · 3 pts · 163d
Maybe bulldoze the White House with him inside? Or Mar-a-lago?
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 163d
It's all written down in something called the law. Just apply it.
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 163d
When there is nothing else to do then, guillotines. If you dont they will and they already are.
slackassassin@piefed.social · 3 pts · 163d
How practical, realistic, and modern.
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 163d
Not ACTUAL guillotines, obviously. Use some modern equivalents. Though at this rate we may be back in the age of using them
slackassassin@piefed.social · 4 pts · 163d
Be the change you want to see I guess.
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 163d
Im not in the US
slackassassin@piefed.social · 4 pts · 163d
Makes sense.
StillAlive@piefed.world · 6 pts · 163d
Why are you expecting them to do anything? They let this guy win a second time. They're fucking morons. They're not going to do anything.
I had most of US related news blocked but then this fucker had to go and start a war in the Middle East and now my country on the other side of the planet is bearing the brunt of it.
Fuck Americans.
Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 162d
While true, there are more victims in that statement than people who made this happen.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 26 pts · 163d
The military budget is already damn near $1 trillion. Go fuck yourself with a rusty spoon
Sunshine@piefed.ca · 8 pts · 163d
Trump proposes massive increase in 2027 defense spending to $1.5 trillion
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 163d
recruitment/military almost always downsize when a dem is in power, but it was immediately reversed when trump became the president the first time.
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com · 23 pts · 163d
Fund it yourself Donnie, I want no part of this epstien fury bullshit.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 163d
200 billion taxpayer dollars and many American soldiers' lives, is a small price to pay in service to the Epstein class!
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 163d
How many trillions did we end up spending in Iraq again? Look at what we got for it. Nothing. Except hate.
TwinTitans@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 163d
Imagine the improvement in your entire country’s lives if you put that into healthcare instead of….this.
SulaymanF@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 163d
USAID was a miniscule amount of money but “too much” to spend, and this endless war is a small price to pay?
Avicenna@programming.dev · 12 pts · 163d
That is probably about the same amount of money Ukraine receives in 3-5 years as aid to fight Russia. MF gonna give it all to Netanyahu to turn kids lives into living hell.
mrdown@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 163d
Yet Zelesnky still support this war. With how long this war will last Ukraine may lose the war to the russian invaders
dude@lemmings.world · 6 pts · 163d
How does he support it? He did not start it and if Russia just pulled their troops back to their own country borders, the war would have been over today. It’s the Russian soldiers on the Ukrainian soil, not the other way round
mrdown@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 163d
He support the war on iran who benefits the russian invaders because the usa is always going to backstab all the other allies to protect Israel
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca · 0 pts · 162d
You're surprised that Zelensky isn't upset that the arms supplier to his invader is being attacked? Why would he be?
mrdown@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 162d
Russia already moved away from Iran drones. They was given the tech and Russia are now manufacturing their own drones based on the Geran. Now look at the consequence on Ukraine: Israel got prioritized for defense and both Iran and Russia are exporting more oils and get new revenus
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca · 0 pts · 162d
Israel has been prioritized for defense for the last 80 years, and Trump has been expressing reluctance to support Ukraine for the duration of the fight. So, except for the Russian cash flow, which is significant, what has actually changed?
mrdown@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
This is the mother of all wars for Israel and the current war is going to involve to the most serious regional war since 76 that is the huge difference.
Even under democrats , Israel will still be prioritized and all defense equipment would be rerouted to Israel
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca · 0 pts · 162d
So, again, for Zelensky, what has changed?
mrdown@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
Even less resources for Ukraine to defend itself. More profits for Russia to continue the war of aggression effort with the easing up of the sanctions on it by the USA
Avicenna@programming.dev · -2 pts · 163d
Well, we all know why Zelensky supports this war. People who are not able to see anything other than black and white deny the possibility that a country fighting against fascism might be enlisting bad allies to do it but that is what is happening here. Asking one fascist to save you from another fascist only saves the day and probably comes with alot of strings attached that likely empowers the other fascist.
mrdown@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 163d
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 163d
Then he can pay it. Literally, he's fleeced that much in bribes in the last few months alone. He acted without approval from Congress. This is his war. If he needs more money to stop Israel from releasing footage of him raping children, he can pull himself up by his bootstraps and sell a few Trump towers.
Eddbopkins@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 163d
You can't trust the trump administration with this kind of money, look at chick who got fired from ICE she stole 125million and put it into some company her people own. You can't trust these people with anything.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 162d
He should pay out of his own pocket if he had no approval for starting this stupid act of aggression.
Ilixtze@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 163d
200 billion dollars for pitting the whole world on a blackout like Cuba? what a bargain!
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 163d
"small price to pay to distract the media from reporitng epstein files, which i am definitely in it, but dont want the people to see how depraved i am and my billionaire friends"- TRUMP.
carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 162d
Can I have $200 billion? I have an important proposal for a special military operation to free Ohio from the tyranny of corn
Javi@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 162d
Can't tell if this is political commentary on the corn lobbyists and the power they wield in America, or if it's a jab at Ohio for being nothing but corn fields.
carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 162d
Yes