By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American)
Donald Trump, the president who promised no more “stupid” foreign wars, as Vice President J.D. Vance called them, spent $11.3 billion of taxpayer money in the first six days of the war against Iran.
If that rate held through today, then the war has cost almost $25 billion.
The New York Times’ report on the almost $2 billion per day price tag comes after news that U.S. forces expended almost $6 billion on munitions in the war’s first two days.
The Times reported that Pentagon officials delivered the bad news about the war’s cost to lawmakers on Tuesday behind closed doors. Worse still, that figure doesn’t include the full cost of it.
The estimate did not include many of the costs associated with the operation, such as the buildup of military hardware and personnel ahead of the first strikes. For that reason, lawmakers expect the number to grow considerably as the Pentagon continues to calculate the costs that accumulated just in the first week.
As The New American reported yesterday, the Times also disclosed how much money the Israeli-driven war cost in munitions the first 48 hours: $5.6 billion…
Read the rest here: https://thenewamerican.com/world-news/middle-east/report-six-day-cost-of-iran-war-11b-plus-info-disinters-vances-denouncing-stupid-wars/
