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Pennies compared to what it has cost us: $25bn or $1 trillion: How much has Iran war really cost the US? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/30/25bn-or-1-tr

• SilverElfin 5mo ago
  It could be worth it if the cost is on the lower end of that. Iran is a major source of instability in the world through all the proxy groups they support. And they have a theocratic authoritarian government that isn’t great for Iranians either. Someone put together a list of what has been achieved: https://xcancel.com/mdubowitz/status/2047489126602088842 https://xcancel.com/mdubowitz/status/2047489126602088842 Although if the cost is $1 trillion maybe it’s not worth it.
  • techblueberry 5mo ago
    On the one hand this may have been the time to do it, there was a confluence of factors that seemed to make Iran vulnerable. But it seems weird to take a victory lap on most of the objectives. No one thought the USA was incapable of bombing Iran back to the Stone Age. So while I think some of the points about the region abandoning Iran are cogent, it wasn’t the first year after starting the war anyone was worried about, it was the next twenty.