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  1. “Every year Pentagon contractors get more and more taxpayer dollars and then use some of that money to convince Congress to give them even more money next year. It’s a win-win-win for contractors, lobbyists, and Congress. The loser? American taxpayers who have to pay for this corrupt war profiteering.”

    truthout.org/articles/war-prof

    #Trump #GOP #DOD #CostofWar #iranwar #Israel #LockheedMartin #Pentagon #Military #WhiteHouse

  2. “Every year Pentagon contractors get more and more taxpayer dollars and then use some of that money to convince Congress to give them even more money next year. It’s a win-win-win for contractors, lobbyists, and Congress. The loser? American taxpayers who have to pay for this corrupt war profiteering.”

    truthout.org/articles/war-prof

    #Trump #GOP #DOD #CostofWar #iranwar #Israel #LockheedMartin #Pentagon #Military #WhiteHouse

  3. “Every year Pentagon contractors get more and more taxpayer dollars and then use some of that money to convince Congress to give them even more money next year. It’s a win-win-win for contractors, lobbyists, and Congress. The loser? American taxpayers who have to pay for this corrupt war profiteering.”

    truthout.org/articles/war-prof

    #Trump #GOP #DOD #CostofWar #iranwar #Israel #LockheedMartin #Pentagon #Military #WhiteHouse

  4. “Every year Pentagon contractors get more and more taxpayer dollars and then use some of that money to convince Congress to give them even more money next year. It’s a win-win-win for contractors, lobbyists, and Congress. The loser? American taxpayers who have to pay for this corrupt war profiteering.”

    truthout.org/articles/war-prof

    #Trump #GOP #DOD #CostofWar #iranwar #Israel #LockheedMartin #Pentagon #Military #WhiteHouse

  5. The Pentagon’s official estimate of the direct financial cost of the U.S. war on Iran is a nearly threefold undercount of the actual price tag of the war..

    Accounting for armament use, troop deployments, and other factors, Semler estimated that the U.S. government spent $71.8 billion on the Iran war over the course of 60 days — an average of $1.2 billion per day.

    The Pentagon’s $25 billion cost estimate suffers from “incomplete accounting of damaged or destroyed military assets, the exclusion of costs outside the department (including billions of dollars in State Department-funded military aid to Israel), and a flawed method for tracking munition expenditures.”

    truthout.org/articles/trumps-w

    #USPol #DOD #CostofWar #Iran #IranWar #Israel #Pentagon #PeteHegseth #Trump #GOP #War

  6. #usa #israel #iran : #warofaggression / #costofwar

    (The lives lost so far in this senseless war of aggression cannot be measured in monetary terms…)

    „A top Pentagon official on Wednesday said that the cost of the ongoing U.S. war with Iran is estimated to be $25 billion so far, as the conflict nears a 60-day mark.“

    nbcnews.com/politics/congress/

  7. [NYTimes-Gifted article]: How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War By Mark Mazzetti, Tyler Pager and Edward Wong Reporting from Washington

    In the lead-up to the U.S.-Israeli attack, President Trump downplayed the risks to the energy markets as a short-term concern that should not overshadow the mission to decapitate the Iranian regime.

    nytimes.com/2026/03/10/us/poli

    #iran #usIsraelWar #donaldtrump #costofwar

  8. The cost of this war: $1 billion a day AND Trump wants $50 billion more!

    The American people are on the hook for $1 billion a day on this AND NOW they want more! This Friday, Trump will submit a $50 billion supplemental to Congress. Another FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS.

    youtu.be/XtCIRG5nJ_0?si=Z6BngN

    Source: Al Jazeera English, March 5, 2026

    #iran #iranwar #epicfury #costofwar

  9. Tuesday, November 11, 2025

    Is Russia running out of money to continue the fight? -- "Destroying our memory": YouTube wipes Ukrainian channel honoring soldiers killed by Russia -- Explosion in Russian Black Sea port of Tuapse amid reported sea drone attack -- Gift for Putin: Czech public raises money for 1 Flamingo missile for Ukraine, Fire Point to provide 2 ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  10. Below is Brown University's Cost Of War project.

    One metric on Dick Cheney's legacy is deaths.
    Donald Trump as #45 & #47 is another.
    Political destabilisation of Europe following the wave of refugees from ISIS another.
    Another would be the money he made from invasions.

    A stinker.

    "An estimated 3.6-3.8 million people died indirectly in post-9/11 war zones, bringing the total death toll to at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting."

    #BrownUniversity #CostOfWar
    #DickCheney
    costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/co

  11. #Palestine #Gaza #Israel #USA #UN #genoside #CostOfWar #spending #BrownUniversity #paper

    "U.S. spending on Israel’s military operations and related U.S operations in the region total at least $22.76 billion and counting. This estimate is conservative; while it includes approved security assistance funding since October 7, 2023, supplemental funding for regional operations, and an estimated additional cost of operations, it does not include any other economic costs."

    watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pa

  12. New paper from Brown University's #CostOfWar project: Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Oracle received multi-billion dollar contracts to develop AI and data-driven warfare capabilities that use data collected from satellites, drones, surveillance cameras, smartphones, social media posts, email messages, etc. Their AI-enabled weapon systems are used in the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

    watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/fi

  13. "Every penny spent on war is money not spent on our schools, hospitals and crumbling public services."

    Peace & Justice Project responds to #Budget2023:
    bit.ly/PJPbudget2023response

    #CostOfWar #war #infrastructure