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, according to an expert analysis published Wednesday. Stephen Semler, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, produced the new cost estimate for the Popular Information newsletter. Accounting for armament use…
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That number will only go up with time, given how quagmire-esque it has already become.
The only question I really have is whether any Democrats running for Congress are interested in curbing presidential war powers. Because I don’t see any end for this in sight. Not in 2027. Not in 2029. Maybe in 2033, if we’re lucky.
Great job deflecting from an entirely Republican topic to bringing in the Democrats. Great stuff.
The United States is a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.