'Imagine All the Better Things That Could Have Been Done': Trump Has Blown $37.5 Billion on Iran War | Common Dreams

https://www.commondreams.org/news/cost-of-the-iran-war

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JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 13d (1 reply)

The entire AI industry: 'hold my beer'

Sir_Ious@feddit.org · 9 pts · 13d

It's a competition who can wreak more havoc in a limited amount of time: a government armed with plenty of weapons and jolly little morals, or a water-, energy- and land-wasting slop industry. The jury's still out, but it's a neck-and-neck race, and results heavily depend on who we manage to stop first.

cristian64@reddthat.com · 11 pts · 13d

All that money spent on murdering Iranians, starting with the little kids in the school.

Zier@fedia.io · 8 pts · 13d

People need food, shelter, affordable rent, higher wages, healthcare. Republicans are idiots who HATE Americans. People over profits.

DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 13d (2 replies)

… and this is just the cost of spending, what about the cost to repair military bases, lost equipment, lost planes… How much all really cost?

justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io · 5 pts · 13d

That the US used several decades of ammunition production to achieve nothing yet.

Polyphilic@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 13d

Trillions

mulcahey@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 9d (1 reply)

it's this expensive and the US hasn't even (officially) put any boots on the ground. They've spent all of that on... what? Bombs, sailors, gas, and AI kickbacks from war profiteers? What a colossal waste

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 9d

My generations future was foreclosed for it as it was for the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.

I am not worth a social safety net, I am worth less than senseless pointless violence to my society which is one of the reasons the coming collapse doesn't keep me up at night because the collapse already arrived for me...

JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 13d
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