Cost of Trump’s Iran war is now estimated to be $500 million a day (www.independent.co.uk)
from throws_lemy@reddthat.com to world@lemmy.world on 07 Apr 17:23
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atropa@piefed.social on 07 Apr 17:35 next collapse

Low on amo and rockets

Tja@programming.dev on 07 Apr 17:58 next collapse

Does that include losses (1 AWACS, at least 5 F15)?

frongt@lemmy.zip on 07 Apr 18:27 collapse

The article answers that question.

Hubi@feddit.org on 07 Apr 18:01 next collapse

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.

frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io on 07 Apr 17:53 next collapse

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

Jhex@lemmy.world on 07 Apr 19:18 collapse

or the next generations of terrorist going against Americans around the world

Hello_there@fedia.io on 07 Apr 18:17 next collapse

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.

smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works on 07 Apr 18:28 next collapse

$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.

massive_bereavement@fedia.io on 07 Apr 19:09 collapse

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.

Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 07 Apr 18:41 next collapse

The “Fuck you, peasants” war

homes@piefed.world on 07 Apr 18:52 next collapse

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

wirebeads@lemmy.ca on 07 Apr 19:00 next collapse

lol @american healthcare.

classic@fedia.io on 07 Apr 19:42 collapse

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

CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de on 07 Apr 19:38 collapse

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.