Imagine how many children could be lifted out of poverty. How many bridges and roads could be repaired. But no, that’s for suckers, right?
If you are thinking about just straight money sure, but we run on debt. If the US Treasury bonds kept getting sold off because everyone was buying gold to trade oil in Chinese yuan America was going to go bankrupt. That would make more starving kids. This was an attempt to keep the debt machine going for a little while longer before the end. America feeds it’s people with debt, not cash right now.
Hey, you could just not attack and cost 0. But USA likes wars, likes killing people and complain about the costs.
I bet the decimal is at least one place to the right.
Even if that weren’t a blatant lie, that’s only the direct cost of the operation. Not what it cost the country (through the massive fuel cost increases and the knock on effect to the cost of everything else from that, the fertilizer shortages and upcoming food price hike with the subpar harvest, etc)
And what do we have to show for it? That’s what I thought….
Lol you weren’t supposed to benefit from this. They were. And they did.
#WeCouldHaveHadHealthCare
FWIW we’ve been seeing that amount be advertised for months. So either people talking about the fact that “the war having cost $40bn so far” were wrong months ago, or this number is under-evaluated for political reasons. Or both.
I don’t understand why people think this is a good use of their tax money. Everyone complains about state taxes when it is much less and pays for everything you see and use. Then you have federal taxes which are a massive black hole.
Seems cheap for the amount of hardware expended. I would not be surprised if there is another set of books involved.
I have no sympathy for Americans caring about the tax payer cost while ignoring their complicity in imperialist wars (yes, it is plural). If you are not protesting as hard the annexation and extraction of Venezuela’s oil, the embargo of Cuba (shit, I am getting tired of listing crimes against humanity), you are not protesting war, you are protesting losing and you should not expect anyone in the world to feel sorry for you.
This is what we expect from Americans though. They decry the loss of American lives, even when those specific persons were involved in murdering people who aren’t and don’t want to be American.
You’ll notice that people from other places don’t talk that way. Europeans don’t talk about “French lives,” Japanese don’t talk about “Japanese lives,” and Iranians don’t talk about “Iranian lives.” It’s a uniquely American thing and it’s all about an ingrained sense of American exceptionalism.
Remember this number when they say they can’t afford any social programs …
They can’t afford any social program after all the money they spend on this war.
Taxpayers: “$37.5b 😵💫”
Heggy: “$37.5b so far!”
Australia’s total NBN build out cost ~US$36 billion (AU$51 billion) for comparison. That’s including rolling parts of it out twice since we half-arsed some of it the first time.
And yet Hegseth still has his job. I want my money back.
Everyone is focusing on the taxpayer cost, which is of course exorbitant. But try instead thinking about how many private jets the weapon manufacturers and politicians in their pocket are getting out of it.
Or, how many innocent children died for that.
