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1 week = ~50% of US AID annual budget.
Iran War | Political & Economic Impacts
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1 week = ~50% of US AID annual budget.
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"People don't need to buy 10 gallons of gas, they can have one or two at a time..."
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
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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.
yet we have to cut food assistance and I still don't have healthcare insurance
Ddseddse
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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
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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.
They're in dire straits.
That ain't workin', that's the way you do it
Get your money for nothin', get your chicks for free
tarheelbillie
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They’re the lucky ones.
bassydude77
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The ability to say, literally, anything but the truth is remarkable and so many of those in the Administration have that "skill."
Turd Ferguson
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Trump is the dumbest and most vile President we have ever had.
Duke Mu
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Indpendents voted for Obama (2008, 2012 and Biden (2020).
Dems need better leaders (not Schumer, Jeffries) and POTUS candidates - maybe Beshear?
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Duke Mu
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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.
“… 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.
…
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.…”
——
Talk about a low bar for the President’s communications.
Tell yet another lie? They don't know how to lift the fog they created and are in.
This is all about the Straits of Hormuz and drone wars.
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IMO Hegseth is going to be the fall guy for all this and be blamed for "bad advice" -- probably sooner rather than later