🚨🇺🇸 The Pentagon says the Iran war cost $29 billion... Analysts say: try $1 trillion!
Linda Blimes at the Harvard Kennedy School laid out some troubling math.
The $29B only covers current munitions and operations.
The real bill compounds for years through replacement costs (Tomahawks valued at $2M each now cost $3.5M to replace), facility repairs spanning 4-5 years, weapons restocking with higher-tech systems, and veterans' care for 55,000 troops potentially exposed to hazards.
Add the global economic damage.
Oil locked around $100/barrel.
Gas potentially hitting $5/gallon nationally.
Bush fired his economic adviser for predicting Iraq would cost $200 billion.
The actual price was $5 trillion.
Wars always cost more than promised.
The receipts arrive later, on the backs of the people who never got asked.
Source: CNN
🇺🇸 Consumer sentiment just hit 47.6. That is the lowest number ever recorded. Not the lowest since 2008. Not the lowest since COVID. The lowest in the history of the index.
The S&P 500 is 3% from its all-time high.
Both of those things are true simultaneously. And that tells you everything about whose economy this actually is.
Since the 2020 pandemic, consumer sentiment has collapsed 50%. During the same period, the stock market has returned 205%.
Those two lines don't just diverge. They go in opposite directions at roughly the same speed.
@KobeissiLetter
پاکستان نے خود کو منوانے کا ایک ناقابل یقین کام کیا ہے، یہ اس کا نقطہ عروج ہے۔ چاہے معاہدہ ہو یا معاہدہ نہ ہو، تب بھی امریکہ اور ایران کو اسلام آباد میں اکٹھا کرنا پاکستان کی جیت اور ایک بہت بڑی فتح ہے۔ امریکی پروفیسر اور سکیورٹی امور کی ماہر کرسٹین فیئر کا تبصرہ
آؤ پاکستانیو اس باپ کی ہم آواز بنیں
یہ شخص بہاولپور کا ہے
یہ باپ پچھلے ڈیڑھ سال سے اپنی نوجوان بیٹی کی تلاش میں رو رہا ہ اسے پتہ بھی ہے کس نے اغوا کیا، پھر بھی کوئی ایکشن نہیں ہوا
آؤ ہم اس کی آواز ہر جگہ پہنچائیں ہم فضولیات کو پھیلاتے ہیں اسکی آواز کو پھیلانا ہمارا مقصد ہے انشااللہ حکام نوٹس لیں گے
🇱🇧🇮🇱 Israel launched more than 100 strikes in just ten minutes across Lebanon.
Over 250 people have already been killed and 1,200 wounded, with the number likely to rise as many civilians are still buried under the rubble.
Heartbreaking!