How much has this cost the USA? How much would NHS style healthcare cost?
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A fraction of what your regular military budget is. Hell, a fraction of what the government already pays for healthcare.
The money was never the problem.
Nope, cruelty was always the point.
But think of the poor insurance shareholders!
I do.
How much has this cost the USA?
When you consider how much we'd lose continuing to fight the war, it's a net gain.
The cost was bombing Iran to begin with, not paying reparations for the damage done.
I meant the whole thing. It’s been one huge needless fuck up from start to finish.
Needed to do something to distract from the epstein files, they were getting to much attention.
and it worked.
Whens the last time you saw media mention epstein? now that they've been spoonfed their constant IV of controversy with regards to the baseless attack on Iran?
The market manipulation with constant monday/friday announcements were just a happy bonus for their benefactors.. and whens the last time you saw media mention this, either?
and it worked
The CBS buyout and the AI infestation of media has done more to quell Epstein talk than the war.
What we're experiencing outside a few niche social media holdouts is an automated smothering of discourse.
now that they’ve been spoonfed their constant IV of controversy with regards to the baseless attack on Iran?
You can trace this kind of journalism back to the Clinton Administration. It's not new.
What is new is the gobbling up of public broadcasters and news outlets and media feeds.
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It's nice to know they were able to spend my tax dollars rebuilding Iran after they spent my tax dollars destroying Iran. I'm very happy the prices on everything went up so they could do that.
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And Iran thinks he will pay? Lol a Trump never pays his debts.
Trump is a lot more generous when it's not his money. He'll pay.
He treats our money like it's his.
See, that’s the thing though - he doesn’t. He never pays his own debts and never spends a dollar he doesn’t have to when it comes to his own money. When it comes to taxpayer money though? He’ll firehose that shit in whatever direction he feels like.
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That's a good idea! Trump should get a loan to pay that himself. Maybe a 50year loan? A Wargage! It's a mortgage for wars. Let's say you can't pay right now, but you would really like to get rid of some country. You get a Wargage and just pay the minimum for 50 years! Get your family members into it to help you and you could own a war in no time! We just need a billion down payment and some collateral.
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He never pays with his money, this isn't his money and if gas prices go down a fairly large percentage of americans will say "we kicked Iran's ass".
It is to be paid by the Gulf coast coalition, so yes, Iran will see the money.
Regardless of where the money comes from, handing over $300 billion to Iran after we attacked them is a bad look.
I can’t fathom there being a good look at the end of this. The decapitation strike was stupidly underbaked, the later attacks were poorly orchestrated, the broad lack of planning seemed almost intentional. We spent money to lose money, and kill children.
Honestly, I’m seeing a lot of parallels with the Russia/georgia/ukraine situation with the US/venezuela/iran
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We raped Iran, and then paid them off to shut them up. Yep, Trump definitely negotiated this.
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Hm, so the teabaggers kept going on and on (and on) about Obama's deal and now DonOLD is talking about 300 billion in reparations?
Unfortunately they won't care about the $300 billion at all, because it'll never appear on Fox News or their safe spaces on social media. At most they've already signaled it will be completely lied about as an "investment fund" that will imply some value in return without promising, follow-up or accountability.
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For reparations NOW. That's IF we stop bombing them NOW. THIS price will only go UP.
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Remember when those cocksuckers complained about democrats giving Iran their own money back in exchange for a nuclear agreement? Now we’re giving them half a trillion just so they’ll go back to the status quo from a year ago?
Remember when they illegally sold weapons to Iran so they could illegally fund Contras in Central America?
As they should. The US owes them reparations.
It will go from out of the pockets of the US working class, into the pockets of the politicians who serve the US ruling class and the into the hands of the government of Iran who will promise to serve the interests of the US ruling class.
This isn’t progress for the workers of the world. This is the US ruling class trying to secure their economic position in the region, and the working class in the US and abroad will pay - it might not be felt immediately, but every advance of US imperialism means the lowering of the quality of life for all working class people.
We need to unite as a class internationally.
For fucks sake, why the fuck does anyone believe this will hold until its supposed to be signed on Friday
So.. that's 1500 dollars per American household.
Will Trump try to pay them with crypto?
Vice President JD Vance all but confirmed a detail being floated as part of the tentative U.S.-Iran peace deal: Iranian access to $300 billion in reconstruction funds.
“That’s the sort of thing they could have access to, funded by the Gulf coast coalition, so long as they honor their end of the obligation,” Vance said.
And ~~Mexico~~ the Gulf coast will pay for it!
So now can we call it? The american empire is done, please just lets call it.
Wait until you see how much Cuba is going to cost.
The Shart of the Deal.
Vance’s admission contradicts what he said on Friday, when he claimed in an X post that Iran would not be “receiving any cash, and no funds are being released simply for signing a deal or attending a meeting.” In addition to the U.S. and its allies paying $300 billion in reconstruction funds, Iran reports that the U.S. has agreed to release $25 billion in frozen Iranian assets.
Dump has always been a terrible business man. He's a leech.
So the IRGC and the Islamic Republic are still in place, and not only that, America is paying them to stay in place. Properly worst of both worlds lol.
So the IRGC and the Islamic Republic are still in place
American bombs killed a lot of them. We killed a lot of their wives and kids and friends and neighbors, too. We obliterated their homes and hospitals and highways, which will mean a wave of excess deaths come winter. And we killed a lot of the moderate diplomats interested in peaceful negotiations, so we've set the stage for wars to come.
America is paying them to stay in place.
America is paying them to replace all the shit we broke, in the hopes we can once against get access to cheap oil.
The alternative was to keep exchanging salvos - a la Russia/Ukraine - for an indefinite future period in the hopes that... ??? All the conservative Islamists in Iran will... ??? And then we can impose a new regime in Tehran at gunpoint, like we did so successfully in Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya and Syria?
It doesn't matter how much they say they're going to pay. We're just going to get another turn of the wheel: we'll be right on the cusp of a deal, then Israel will murder a few thousand people and literally blow the deal up. The war continues but we're still in a ceasefire, the Straight is open but nobody's allowed through, Iran's military capabilities have been completely destroyed but they're still launching missiles. Give it two more weeks and we'll be right on the cusp of a deal with another jaw-dropping offer for Iran that won't matter because they know we'll just turn the wheel again.
Interesting that Vance is finally in the news now that he said he wants to run for president...
I take pictures of insects to deal with this perpetual nonsense. In the forest things make sense again: https://www.smetterling.eu/, enjoy.
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Trump: Your dealmaker abilities are laughable. You can't predict even a half-step forward. But I can. Look: I sign peace with Iran and ditch Israel who made things complicated a few times recently. That ditching with pay itself in a year max!
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