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Trump threatens to bomb an Iranian bridge or power plant every time Iran fires at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz. (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 38 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Marco Rubio says Iran doesn't have civilian infrastructure because Iran only spends money on its military. If Iran has no infrastructure, then what is the US attacking? The US attacked the largest civilian bridge in Iran, 'B1 bridge', which was constructed starting in 2015.

Pete Hegseth testified before congress yesterday to request $37.5 billion additional funding for the Iran war on top of the regular Pentagon budget. The proposed 2027 military budget is $1.5 trillion dollars, almost double the military budget of 2026.

The propaganda narrative doesn't make sense on face value. "We have to bomb Iran because Iran doesn't build any new civilian infrastructure" What are you bombing? "We're bombing Iran's new civilian infrastructure."

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    I wanna know where all that money goes because it doesn't seem to go to soldiers, equipment, or munitions. I know the defense industry is the griftiest grift industry but like jesus christ lol the appearance is honestly like they turn on the money printer and dump it into a fire as if that's going to beat Iran

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    the appearance is honestly like they turn on the money printer and dump it into a fire

    Major General Cameron Holt once said this of China: “In purchasing power parity, they spend about one dollar to our 20 dollars to get to the same capability.”

    https://www.twz.com/china-acquiring-new-weapons-five-times-faster-than-u-s-warns-top-official

    The US is absolutely just dumping all their money into a fire.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Honestly it just appears even worse than that. Like a 1:100 ratio or even worse. It really does seem like the U.S. just burns its entire treasury every year in some sort of sacrifice to mammon and every bit of actual military operation that happens squeaks by on a shoestring budget 1/15th of the stated spending

    I know the pentagon keeps failing audits and it's the griftiest shit ever, it's still just staggering to see the scale and disparity between money spent and what the u.s. actually seems to get out of it

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Overpriced supplies and overpriced "services". It's an ecosystem of corruption.

    Kind of like the local business with super overpriced stuff that makes its money by guilt tripping people into "buying local", only scaled up to the size and scope of the whole country.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    It's simple. If you classify all bridges and power plants as military infrastructure, then both statements ("Iran spends only on it's military" and "We will bomb a bridge for every ship attacked") are not contradictory statements.

    I mean, it's a monstrous position to take, but that hasn't stopped the whitehouse the thousands of times before from taking monstrous positions.

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