by Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project:
(Sheerpost) Israel gets the war it wanted — and doesn’t have to foot the bill.
The bombs fall on Iran, the region slides closer to catastrophe, and the invoice lands on the desk of the American taxpayer.
Maybe the deliberate destruction of people’s lives doesn’t move Washington anymore. After decades of war, perhaps the human cost barely registers inside the machinery of empire. But the bill might.
Because this week the Pentagon went to U.S. Congress with the first tab from the war launched by the administration of Donald Trump: $11.3 billion in just six days — with no end in sight.
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Two days of war had already burned through $5.6 billion, according to reporting by Reuters. Less than a week later, the cost had doubled.
And the missiles are still flying.
This is what Trump’s foreign policy looks like when the slogans fade and the receipts arrive: a war without a plan, a conflict without an endpoint, and a price tag climbing by the hour.
Trump’s folly is now on full display.
The meter is running — and it’s running fast.
According to reporting by Reuters, the first two days of the war launched by the administration of Donald Trump against Iran cost the United States $5.6 billion. That figure alone would fund entire federal programs for a year. Instead, it vanished in 48 hours of missiles, bombs, and naval deployments.
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