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The 20-year cost of US forces occupying Afghanistan is frequently put at about 1 trillion USD. The current GDP of Afghanistan is about 70 billion USD (Wikipedi
by ramblenode 5y ago
The 20-year cost of US forces occupying Afghanistan is frequently put at about 1 trillion USD.
The current GDP of Afghanistan is about 70 billion USD (Wikipedia).
So you would need to have taxed Afghanistan about 70% their yearly GDP for the last 20 years just to pay for the occupation.
Needless to say, people don't typically appreciate having to pay their occupiers.