• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
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    26 minutes ago

    If the pentagon says something in 2026 I’m going to assu.e it’s either completely false or exaggerated in some way.

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      19 minutes ago

      100%

      Either it cost way more and they are hiding it. Or it cost less, and they stole the difference.

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    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.

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    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.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    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

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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    and yet, they STILL can’t get universal healthcare. one war, a few weeks, $25B. Fuckwits.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      11 hours ago

      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.

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    pretty sure its more than that. 90bn in a month was spent on having luxury/bougie vacation experience for hesgeth and the top brass on the military.