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What could you buy with the money spent by the US during the Iran war's first week? (apnews.com)

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[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Decent food in schools? Affordable health care for all? Paying us all back the tariffs? Refund gutted federal departments like CISA? So many things come to mind. Literally anything would have been better than that.

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Funny how much obvious social infrastructure projects they chose to avoid. Best they could do is 'roads'