#usa #israel #palestine #lebanon #iran #syria : #war / #militaryaid / #costsofwar / #taxpayer
„The Trump administration expects U.S. taxpayers to fund not only its own military adventurism but Israel’s as well.“
#usa #israel #palestine #lebanon #iran #syria : #war / #militaryaid / #costsofwar / #taxpayer
„The Trump administration expects U.S. taxpayers to fund not only its own military adventurism but Israel’s as well.“
#usa #israel #iran : #warofaggression / #costsofwar /
(„They got money for wars, but can‘t feed the poor“ - 2Pac)
https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-us-pentagon-972ec1bd956a2c3633e6ab7fff389791

A senior administration official says the Pentagon is seeking $200 billion in additional funds for the Iran war. The department sent the request to the White House, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private information. It’s an extraordinarily high number and comes on top of extra funding the Defense Department already received last year in President Donald Trump’s big tax cuts bill. Asked about the figure at a press conference Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not directly confirm the amount, saying it could change. Congress is bracing for a new spending request but it is unclear it would have support. Trump says it's a small price to pay for security.
#usa #israel #iran : #warofaggression / #costsofwar / #uno / #humanitarianaid
„The UN’s emergency relief chief on Wednesday condemned the “$1 billion-a-day” cost of the war in the #MiddleEast, at a time when humanitarian needs are soaring and aid funding is falling dangerously short.“
This would be a good time to remind everyone that #tax #dollars, #troop #casualties, and #oil #prices for #Americans are NOT the real #CostsOfWar! Iranians bear the real #costs when their #schools are bombed, their #leaders are killed, and their #country is ravaged for #generations. That #damage does not simply vanish as soon as we walk away. We should oppose #imperial #wars because of the #impacts on the real #victims, not the #minor #inconvenience to Americans.

#usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #armsexport / #costsofwar / #research / #brownuniversity / #university
„In the two years since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, the U.S. government has spent $21.7 billion on #militaryaid to Israel and $9.65 - $12.07 billion on related operations in the wider #MiddleEast, for a total of over $31 billion and counting.”
(You may take a look at the related papers, too)
Since October 7, 2023, over ten percent of the population of Gaza has been directly killed or injured in two years of Israel’s war in Gaza. In addition, writes political scientist Neta Crawford (Co-Founder, Costs of War and Professor, University of Oxford), “the destruction of infrastructure – including energy, water, sanitation, agriculture, housing, and healthcare – [has] rendered the conditions of life so difficult as to cause long term harm for the rest of the population.”
if you haven't read it, you should:
don't miss this report by the authoritative #CostsOfWar and #QuincyInstitute
From 2020 to 2024, private firms have received 2,400 BILLION $ in contracts from the Pentagon
se nessuno ve ne ha parlato, non lo perdete: il report dell'autorevole
#CostsOfWar e del #QuincyInstitute
dal 2020 al 2024,ben 2400 miliardi di $ del contribuente USA per le #armi sono andati ad aziende private, CINQUE di queste hanno ottenuto 771 MILIARDI
#CostsOfWar #CostsOfWarProject #GazaGenocide #Journalists
The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
BREAKING: More journalists have died in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023 than in both World Wars and other major wars, combined.
This includes the US Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, including the conflicts in Cambodia and Laos, the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan.
The Costs of War Project (#CostsOfWar) April 1, 2025
209 #journalists have now been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza, since October 2023.