▲ 50 ▼ The conflict with Iran is the most expensive “per-day” war in U.S. history, with daily spending nearly tripling that of the Iraq War (thelemmy.club) submitted 3 months ago by Innerworld@lemmy.world to c/dataisbeautiful@lemmy.world 4 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (2 children) Is this inflation adjusted? permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 7 points 3 months ago* That's the question. With 1970s money we're looking at either $1tn or $8tn for that war. It'd be stupid if this wasn't an adjusted number. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Innerworld@lemmy.world [S] 3 points 3 months ago No mention of inflation from the source. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 7 points 3 months ago* That's the question. With 1970s money we're looking at either $1tn or $8tn for that war. It'd be stupid if this wasn't an adjusted number. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Innerworld@lemmy.world [S] 3 points 3 months ago No mention of inflation from the source. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] skhayfa@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago How about the cost for the attacked countries? 1 million lives lost in Iraq and for the US Secretary of state that price was worth it. permalink fedilink source
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