Coles Street Pothole12h ago

Twenty years of the Global War on Terror cost the United States $8 trillion dollars. It's not just the cost of bombs and soldiers, but also the long-term costs, such as VA health care for wounded and disabled vets, the cost of borrowing to finance the war, and so on.

If we had not invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, we'd be $8 trillion ahead. That's enough to run the United States federal government for a year.

https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar#

Costs of the 20-year war on terror: $8 trillion and 900,000 deaths

A report from the Costs of War project at Brown University revealed that 20 years of post-9/11 wars have cost the U.S. an estimated $8 trillion and have killed more than 900,000 people.

Brown University
Show threadSara8h ago
@ColesStreetPothole hell we're still paying medical costs for damage my dad and uncles took during Vietnam
Show threadColes Street Pothole
@sarae war on terror costs will peak in 2050. 😩
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Show threadSara7h ago

@ColesStreetPothole IDK, my military cousins are getting deployed this week

so maybe we'll just kill everyone instead

since that seems to be this administration's preferred way to address healthcare costs