• chauncey [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    The post 9/11 US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are estimated to have cost around $8 trillion dollars.

    $8 trillion divided by 22 years divided by 365 days is $1 billion per day.

    And the state I live in is talking about budgetary cuts.

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

    • kristina [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      we currently have 582,000 homeless people. instead of doing war for the past 22 years we could have just given them 13 million USD each

    • krolden@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Isn't that the amount of money that was missing from the pentagons budget when a missile plane flew into it?