So after spending 100s of billions of dollars to kill several thousand Iranians, the big achievement of this war will have been...
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The status quo ante bellum
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No, there’s a 10 point plan. He promises that plan existed before starting the war. And nearly every one of them is being agreed upon by Iran. And NO, you don’t need to see the list. Trust the Cheeto in chief that there will be piece in the Middle East now.
Think of the defense contractors, though, who get contracts to replenish all those missiles. They will be happy ...
Thank goodness it's TACO Tuesday
I figured this was coming tonight with his bluster this morning about destroying their 'civilization'.
He always goes super extreme BS before he does a 180.
I’m so ready for that Big Beautiful Obituary.
The best obituary, everyone is saying it.
Agrees with who? Didn't the Iranians stop engaging with him?
Looks like he had Pakistan write a Twitter post proposing a 2 week delay. Apparently that's what we call an agreement these days.
Israel ignores the ceasefire, as usual.
We're a few years away from presidents starting their speeches with "make sure you like and subscribe so you don't miss any of my speeches..."
So, what will he do next to distract from the Epstein files, which he demanded be released before he was elected?
Taco
Is anyone surprised? He knew from the start US wasn't going to attack but he nevertheless spent hundreds of thousands of tax dollars so that he could pretend it was real by sending B52 bombers on flight. What a wussy spending all that money to save face rather than improve health care and homelessness.
hundreds of thousands
Tens of billions.
The rescue of the second downed F-15 pilot cost $2 billion alone.
The cost of the 850 Tomahawk missiles fired on Iran was another $2 billion.
The US lost an E-3 worth $500 million, as well as several fighter jets, Reaper drones, transport planes and Black Hawk helicopters.
And that's just the big "consumables", the cost of all the other bombs and missiles and the entire logistics pipeline comes on top.
If you add the cost of the closed Strait of Hormuz to the taxpayer, we're talking hundreds of billions.
I was just talking about the last farce where B52s took flight so that Trump could pretend "he was just about to do what he promised had Pakistan not interfered"