Iran War | Political & Economic Impacts

[altmin]

1 week = ~50% of US AID annual budget.

 

[altmin]

“I'm just saying they don't need to have 30 dolls. They can have three. They don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five.”
 -President Meathead

Good to know!

"People don't need to buy 10 gallons of gas, they can have one or two at a time..."

 

[gregh1]

A reddit post about a bluesky post about a Twitter tweet which was quote-tweeting the news article. Inception!

Something recent in the reddit post though (yes I drifted there) was this tracker

US Military Cost: Iran Conflict 2024

Estimated US military spending on the Iran conflict since April 2024. Operations, weapons, air defense, and military aid.

iranwarcost.com

 

[Batt Boy]

Trump administration estimates Iran war cost at over $11 billion in six days, source says

Officials from President Donald Trump's administration estimated during a congressional briefing this week that the ‌first six days of the war on Iran had cost the United States at least $11.3 billion, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

yet we have to cut food assistance and I still don't have healthcare insurance

 

[Ddseddse]

Dude's title is"US Special Envoy For Peace Missions"?

14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. Newspeak wasinvented by Orwell, in 1984, as the official language of Ingsoc, English Socialism. But elements of Ur-Fascism are common to different forms of dictatorship. All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning. But we must be ready to identify other kinds of Newspeak, even if they take the apparently innocent form of a popular talk show. -Umberto Eco, Ur-Fascism, June 22, 1995

 

[nycfan]

Team Trump needs to start lifting the fog of the Iran war for the US public

Somewhere between the White House and the Pentagon, the nation’s leaders need to start giving the public a regular, clear, concrete sense of how Operation Epic Fury is proceeding.

nypost.com

“… Everyone knows the president’s communications style won’t change: He’s going to sound definitive even when he’s just making a minor point, and share the possibilities — many of them actually quite remote — that he weighing as he speaks.

He’ll chat with one reporter or another, saying (as Wednesday with Axios) that there’s “practically nothing left to target” in Iran, and “Any time I want it to end, it will end” — all of which is true in some sense, but none of which adds up to It’ll all be over next week.

His underlings have a duty to provide the context and the concretes beyond those remarks.

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But this is America’s war not the administration’s private war, and Americans need to know more.

A public that feels it’s being leveled with, as much as possible, will be a lot more patient than one that feels needlessly kept in the dark.…”

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Talk about a low bar for the President’s communications.

 

[nycfan]

Seems like we would have planned for that prior to launching this attack.

 

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