U.S. may already have spent as much as $31 billion on five-week conflict, think-tank estimates
  • kreskin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    15 hours ago

    And thats not even counting the reparations trump agreed to-- to rebuild everything trump and Israel have blown up.

    • Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Oh but I’m sure that will be offset by the tiny fraction of the straight of Hormuz tolls Iran collects that we are begging negotiating for.

    • Dholi@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      It was all planned for Jared Kushner to leech off of the infrastructure development and repair contracts in Israel and the land they just stole from Palestine and Lebanon.

  • Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
    83·
    2 days ago

    Seems like they did not include the damage to infrastructure in the surrounding countries and the economic losses worldwide. This reads more like military expenditure to me. The actual cost of this war is MUCH higher.

  • Smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    471·
    2 days ago

    $500M/day would represent roughly 1000 megawatts of solar farm, per day. Depending on where said farms are located that could power at least 250,000 homes. For the next 25 years. Per day.

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      The batteries to support them unfortunately cost an order of magnitude more and you kinda need to smooth out all that generation.

      Would still be a hell of an investment into energy security, not just sustainability.

      • kunaltyagi@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        So instead of 1000 farms, setup 91 farms and 91 battery backups (equal to 910 farms). That still a lot of investment into the future

    • massive_bereavement@fedia.io
      15·
      1 day ago

      A steady demand and generation would eventually drive down the costs (unless there’s a resource scarcity), generating jobs, related industries and r&d.
      In addition, it would also drive down power costs and with it make power-intensive production cheaper, which might retrofit into solar generation costs.

      And the longer I think of this make-believe magical world where politicians do sensible things that help us, the angrier I get on our shitty reality.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    1 day ago

    And thats why they need to cut NASA’s science budget next year, so they can fund a few weeks of war with Iran.

    Science is great and all, but have you heard of bombing people for no reason?

  • krashmo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    1 day ago

    If we can only comprehend war in economic terms then we have already lost everything that makes a society worth preserving.

    • classic@fedia.io
      23·
      1 day ago

      I don’t need healthcare. A shareholder somewhere getting wealtḧier is its own reward thankyouverymuch

  • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
    19·
    2 days ago

    And that doesn’t even include the cost of a caring for a new cohort of traumatized service members with inadequate counseling support and fewer resources for jobs and housing back home

  • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    This could fund so much daycare and healthcare and food and housing assistance…

  • Hello_there@fedia.io
    131·
    2 days ago

    Cost of residential solar install in CA is 30k.
    $500M/$30k= 16,666 solar installs on homes a day. Around 60,000 people a day. Getting free energy for the next 20 years.

  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    There’s some estimates that are considerably higher. Some of the official estimates calculate the cost of the object at the cost at the time of acquisition ie in 2010 a tomahawk cost $10 million but today it will cost $20 million (numbers only for example). Or they used v1 bombs at $100k but they retired them and will replace them with v2 at $400k.

    The math is wobbly, to say the least.