But hey! No money for healthcare, sorry.
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Just saw another article about how they're trying to cut SSI/SSDI payments for disabled people who live with their families.
The level of malice and greed from these politicians is astounding...
Which means it’s far more than that
I actually saw that number a good 3-4 weeks ago.
"Stop the count"
That sounds way low.
https://militaryspend.org/us-iran-war
Here's a more accurate estimation.
wow it's all in interceptors because they won't buy interceptor drones from ukrain and use missiles instead
Hey raytheon needs to get paid....
And obviously ignores indirect costs
The people can eat ballroom.
And even by war standards the us has kinda done nothing?
Bases in the area? Evacuated.
Allies in the area? Wishing they where not.
Friendly Oil infrastructure? On fire.
Iran's fighting capacity? Largely unchanged and now decentralized and acting independently (that is a bad thing for the us)
The strait? Now double closed.
Us image as a superpower? shattered.
The USA is utterly unmatched in its capability to destroy things militarily. But for nearly 80 years has been utterly incapable of fighting a war.
That's because winning wars is bad for business. If the war ends, who will keep buying the killing machines?
Yeah I was going to say they can't seem to hold territory at all, but this conflict showed they can't even degrade the military of a near modern nation anymore. The logistics of the us military have also seemed to collapse if the state of their ships and lack of advanced munitions are to go by.
and yet, they STILL can't get universal healthcare. Fuckwits.
they do just for military members and thier "tricareatops/dependapotamus"(a term use by former or current about spouses dating service member solely for this healthcare option) spouses and low costs, plus cheap housing loans.
$25 billion for the world not to pay attention what Israel does to Libanon is not that bad.
This is at most half the actual cost. The economic losses alone were estimated at like 600 billion. Its so dumb and there's nothing to show for it but a pile of dead children.
Is making Netanyahu happy worth any of this? But hey a lot of really shitty people are now richer.
Not quite nothing to show for it, Iran now controls the strait of hormuz
Assuming this is entirelly honest, this is only the direct costs of the US military action, not the military costs of Israel which the US subsidizes or indirect costs to American businesses and consumers due to higher energy costs as well as due to, higher in various production chains a lack or higher prices of things produced in plants in counries in the area which are US allies and hence were destroyed by Iran or which are exported in routes that go via the Strait.
And then on top of the above described costs for the US, all the non-military costs also apply to the rest of the World almost certainly adding up to many-fold the costs for the US. Even in an American-centric perspective the ill-will towards the US from this has future costs for the US in terms of missing international business opportunities and reduced preference abroad for American products.
Then on top of that there is additional damage to the image of the US at governmental level all over the World which can even accelerated the end of the Reserve Currency status for the USD, and which depending on much that's accelerated would mean Economic losses for the US next to which the $25 billion are a microscopic amount.
The whole thing is proper next level winning! /s
So much winning they will get sick of it
That means at least $50b
25 billion to cover up the pedo masterminds crimes to protect the pedo pres. Not one cent to help me out. Not one.
Oil and greater israel
Dept of War: It’s not a war! Don’t call it a war!
US-Iran War Cost Tracker
Ceasefire — Standby Costs Operation Epic Fury
Last updated: April 29, 2026 · Auto-refreshed from CSIS, Pentagon, and Penn Wharton models
Total Estimated Cost to US Taxpayers $31.63B
- 60 Days Since Start
- $2,025 Current Rate/sec
- $7.29M Current Rate/hour
- $175.00M Standby Rate/day
god damn. $2K a second??? that's what i get over a month!
pretty sure its more than that. 90bn was spent on having luxury/bougie vacation experience for hesgeth and the top brass on the military.
What are some comparable costs for domestic policies? A website said Medicare for all is 3.2T a year. Others?
Also costs entire world a shitton of money. We should all send invoices to Israel and US.
I presume that means cost the US military $25bil? It’s presumably also cost Iran, Israel, and everyone else in the world.
Epic fury...how about Epic fail 😅🤣....what a bunch of clowns.
But fuck thr poor
The guy said, "Right now, the war is costing us $25 billion" or something close to that. Is it just me, or is that weird phrasing? Wouldnt you say "The war cost us ... so far" rather than use the present tense "costing us"?
present perfect would be the pest tense.
Has cost us so far.
Remember, every single person in that administration is stupider than the stupidest person you have ever met. Reasonable syntax is a pretty huge ask here.
LOL.
Does that include damage from the Iranians? Because between the missile defense systems and base damage, Iran has probably caused more than 25B in damage itself.
Yeah, but we absolutely could not tolerate a funny laugh.
Things would be way worse if we had allowed that.
Thank God we dodged that bullet.
Complete lie. More like at least 100 billion if not more in direct costs. And of course that doesn't take into consideration the massive negative effects on the US economy.
Yeah uh, we should probably move the decimal one digit to the right for accuracy
If the pentagon says something in 2026 I'm going to assu.e it's either completely false or exaggerated in some way.
100%
Either it cost way more and they are hiding it. Or it cost less, and they stole the difference.
Worth spending LOL.
Seems like a waste to me.