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Related: About this forumWhy this conflict could cost hundreds of billions - Al Jazeera English
The US and Israeli war in Iran is costing millions of dollars a day and is expected to cost hundreds of billions of dollars over the several weeks the Trump administration estimates it will take.
John Hendren reports on the financial cost of the war in Iran. - 03/02/2026.
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Why this conflict could cost hundreds of billions - Al Jazeera English (Original Post)
Rhiannon12866
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Klarkashton
(5,157 posts)1. It certainly will.
Bibi still gets his take.of the US Treasury regardless.
Bayard
(29,275 posts)2. I predict we will foot the entire bill for this fiasco,
While losing every kind of benefit here at home, and gas prices going through the roof.
Rhiannon12866
(253,727 posts)3. Gas prices finally got just below $3 a gallon here in Northern New York
Marie Marie
(11,156 posts)4. Just another redistribution of wealth - from the taxpayers to the
MIC and the war profiteers. Soldiers lives are just an expendable cost of doing business. DRAFT BARRON.