To pay for his F-upped war, Trump wants cuts in the EPA, Education, Disaster Funding, TSA, Health. Budget lies also needed. 
Largest Military Request in Modern History
The Wall Street Journal reports Trump Seeks $1.5 Trillion for Military, the Largest Request in Modern History
President Trump on Friday released a summary of his budget proposal for the 2027 fiscal year, seeking $1.5 trillion in military spending, by far the largest dollar amount in modern history.
The proposal for military spending included $1.1 trillion for the Defense Department for the next fiscal year, as well as another $350 billion for critical munitions, an effort to expand the military industrial base and other matters. Trump promised a $1.5 trillion military request in January, before the U.S. launched large-scale strikes on Iran.
The Pentagon portion of the request includes funding to boost manufacturing of munitions, a priority of Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg. The Pentagon request calls for buying 34 ships, including funding for a new class of battleship named after Trump and new frigates, both announced last year. In all, the administration wants $65.8 billion for shipbuilding. The defense request also includes money to build the Golden Dome missile shield championed by Trump.
Most By Over $500 Billion!
Proposed Cuts
- Nondefense Spending: A 10% reduction of nondefense spending to about $660 billion in fiscal year 2027, followed by additional cuts in subsequent years.
- Federal Emergency Management Agency: The administration wants forcing states and local governments to address their own disasters.
- Cybersecurity including elections: The administration would cut $707 million from DHS’s cybersecurity agency and end its election security work.
- TSA: Re-privatize the Transportation Security Administration by forcing small airports to hire private security contractors.
- Department of Health and Human Services: A reduction of $15.8 billion or 12.5% from the 2026 enacted level.
Budget Lies Make Up the Difference
- In 2026, the budget estimates the U.S. will take in over $406 billion in tariff revenue, more than double the $194 billion that the government received from tariffs in 2025.
- The budget forecasts that annual tariff revenue will reach $500 billion by 2029.
- In 2026, the Yale Budget Lab estimates that Trump’s current tariffs would bring in just over $171 billion—less than half of the Trump administration’s estimate.
- In 2029, Yale estimates tariff revenue would be $193 billion under current policies, a far cry from the half-trillion that Trump’s team expects.
Trump did not include refunds of tariffs ordered by the International Court of Trade.
And he assumes replacement tariffs will make up any deficits. The problem is the replacement tariffs absolutely will not provide Trump’s nonsensical estimates.
And those tariffs are themselves constitutionally questionable.
Additional Budget Cut Details
My synopsis of cuts was highlights only. Here are additional details.
Sen. Patty Murray, (D., Wash.), said military funding comes at the expense of medical research. “Our national defense budget should not be dictated by a president who is sending servicemembers into harm’s way in reckless foreign wars,” she said.
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Wow. What continued (but expected) hubris.
Bear in mind the Golden Dome will easily cost 10 if not 50 times whatever down payment Trump requests. Destroyers named after Trump! Sheesh.
While I sympathize with some nondefense cuts, the package as a whole is fiscally insane.
Expect a midterm Republican washout. I will discuss how big in a post coming up soon.
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They’re destroying the country.
Trump is accelerating it.
then he can have a real parade.
The TACO king and foreign queen
did so want a birthday parade
with beautiful tanks and solders who prance
right down the promenade
but our soldiers fight they dont prance
our tanks are just tanks
and millions came out to show
Americas might comes
from our laws and our rights
and our great dislike of kings you know.
Waste of money.
Even a very advanced shield would have difficulty with:
1. Hypersonic weapons
2. Saturation attacks (many missiles at once)
3. Decoys and countermeasures
4. Advanced nuclear powers
Countries like Russia and China design missiles specifically to defeat missile defense systems
Golden Dome is destined to be an expensive failure simply because the other side will not sit idly by like blocks of wood while the US acquires a defensive capability that renders their offense ineffective. That would give the US a first strike capability against them. Golden Dome will provoke an offensive nuclear arms race that will leave everyone less secure and poorer. The only winner will be the MIC.
The bond market has a serious problem.
We have a debt bubble in this country, given the federal debt and interest cost trajectory. Interest on federal debt is now the #2 biggest item in the Federal budget behind SS which is mostly funded through SS taxes. We’ll pay over $1.2 trillion for federal interest costs this year, and we’ll borrow every dime of that. How long can that continue? America has been financially hollowed out by our Congress and presidents. The American standard of living is slipping which is why houses, cars, trucks, insurance and food now costs so much. 30% of America lives in an inflationary depression. The hammer will come down on America within the next 10 years.
Agent Krasnov guides the US down Gorbachev’s path.
Meanwhile back at the ranch, the US is going bankrupt with roughly $5 trillion in revenue and $7 plus trillion in spending to be increased by Trump if he gets his way. We make zero progress toward fiscal health with Trumps proposal, rather it is another kick at the can down the road that makes the decision to fiscal sanity even more difficult when made, if ever. Assuming an $8 trillion spend in the next year maybe two, and zero GDP growth, a real possibility with the current fiscal situation and consequences of Trump’s war already baked into the cake, $3 trillion spending needs cut, or needs raised in revenue, or some combination to maintain status quo. That is not a one and done, it must be the norm going forward. The problem compounds with higher debt burden and service and escalates even more with higher interest rates. The US fails from within if we do not bite that bullet and do it now or very soon.
I really do not believe voters or their representatives understand the gravity of our fiscal situation. Fixing the problem as it stands now will result in recession, possibly depression before things get better. The country did this a century ago following WW1 and the Spanish Flu pandemic and ushered in the roaring twenties over a roughly year and a half period. We can and must do it again.
US institutions are broken. Chump didn’t break them. They were broken long before he became president in ‘16. He was elected as a solution by some to fix it. To others his election was a symptom of what was wrong with America.
Trump is what a corrupt and to its core a rotten system vomits up when it’s political, and economic elites rip off the middle class and working classes and the society didn’t listen to its constructive critics such as JFK, RFK, MLK, Fred Hampton, Malcolm X, but instead to Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy to just say no to drugs and buy into the ‘84 campaign slogan It’s Morning in America when we were in fact a debtor nation that had been a creditor nation. A nation with a winnowing middle class. A nation that looked away at Iran-Contra as an error of foreign policy and honored a traitorous Lt. Colonel in the White House basement that somehow magically engineered it, an S&L scandal that preceded and begot the 2009 monetary crises, 300 marines needlessly killed in Beirut because of Zionist Israel.
https://youtu.be/pUMqic2IcWA?si=c2_TEBJqCSoiH6jz
As a people we have lost the ability to have introspection about ourselves, our communities, our nation otherwise we wouldn’t keep fighting wars that are nonsensical, depend upon a stock market that is rigged in the vain attempt to keep the top 10% buying bobbles and trinkets, have record homelessness, have a dysfunctional educational system, our youth with little hope of a better future
You’re not wrong. The Great Depression was largely a liquidation of debt bubble built up during the Roaring 20s. That liquidation, through payments and bankruptcies, went on for over 20 years. That’s how long it took to bring down the debt bubble. The debt bubble is much worse now…over 400% of GDP, not 270% of GDP like in 1930. Now we have credit cards and student loans and thousand-dollar-a-month car payments. When ai really kicks in and we lose truck driving jobs, high school teachers, lawyers, software engineers, accountants….what will happen to house prices and used car prices when the defaults ramp up?
The Great Depression effects were ameliorated by ‘36 but Roosevelt in ‘38 had raised taxes, sterilized the gold reserves and the Federal Reserve tightened credit because economists were worried about inflation so the US experienced a recession while a depression was still ongoing.
In essence rearming America in preparation for what would become WW II started another recovery, and the attack on Pearl Harbor ended the Depression so Keynes was correct that government spending could end or at minimum greatly reduce the effects of a deflationary cycle.Keynes did not have a devastating war, however, as part of the solution for the Great Depression.
It was contraction of government spending, $18,85 billion in 1919 to $6,36, $5.06, and $3.29 billion in the following years respectively that pulled us from the 1919 recession. From 1929 through 1938, spending increased every year from $3.127 billion to $6.85 billion, with a peak in 1936 at $8.228 billion. The increased government spending contributed to extending the depression by diverting resources from the productive private sector by taxing and borrowing from it. Absent the ‘government help’, it took about a year and a half to heal the earlier recession.
I am not saying that the civil works were a waste; to the contrary many stand today as contributors to our economy, most notably the flood control/irrigation/power generation of the dams and they likely would never have been built without government programs. To say they assisted with the recovery is a stretch in my mind.
GDP was $104.556 billion in 1929, and it took till 1941 to exceed the number driven by WW2 preparations. Spending on arming for war did little for infrastructure advancement for the citizen as it did not build dams, roads or the like. It wasn’t until WW2 was over that serious advancement for the common citizen commenced. During that time government spending went from a peak in 1945 of $92.7 to a minimum of $29.77 in 1948, another example of a time when shrinking government spending is associated with meaningful economic growth.
Spending money on wealth consuming war is not contributor to economic growth in the long run, especially when your economy is already swirling in a flushing toilet.
This war and the demands for ever more military spending is a continuation of enriching Israels theocracy over America and its citizens.
Israels citizens have received over $100,000 per person over the last 20 years. They receive free healthcare and free higher education. While Americans are stuck in a healthcare system that benefits insurance companies and an educational system that creates debt slaves.
Israel has also stated that it is not sending its ground troops to Iran. They are leaving our brave men and women to die for them.
The Department of War Crimes should not receive any funds until the war criminals at the top are apprehended, tried and ?????????????
It is completely outrageous that we do Israel’s bidding at our cost in dollars and blood.
The Israeli censors are very heavy-handed and jail or revoke visas of anyone, including journalists, who report the truth about incoming Iranian missiles. The only time they are allowed to report is if the missiles kill innocent civilians at non-military sites. That said, I heard a report that 80% of Iran’s missiles are now getting through Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’.
Fuck Trump and his request for more money. “Defense” should be cut so they can’t start any more wars.
+100
Agreed, The US should just sit on de fence and let Israel wither and die.
“While I sympathize with some nondefense cuts, the package as a whole is fiscally insane.”
I suspect a majority of US citizens agree.
I’m not a Trump guy, but I believe Iran was a serious problem….So the war has hobbled them for the next 10 or 20 years. Hopefully the Islamic fascists will be gone soon so there’s more peace in the region. Iran didn’t just attack Israel….they attacked Muslim countries in the Gulf, and when they closed the Strait, that was an act of war. Islam is a negative force in the Middle East. They think they’re going to paradise when they are martyred.
I don’t care about the Middle East
How about life here in the Midwest
Plenty problems here more “serious”
When you cannot stop the Government from blowing the Loot?….. Maybe you buy a Defense Contractor ETF ? ……….You can’t change the current ….so Go with the Flow.
The cost of this war is a fraction of what would be spent once Iran developed their nuclear weapons. One downside is that Iran likely believed it needed the nuclear deterrent to assume full control over Hormuz. But now, seeing that no other nation is willing or able to help the US keep the Straight open, Iran has concluded that it can take Hormuz now. They are imposing transit fees to ensure safe passage, just like their proxy, the Houthis, have been doing in the Red Sea for months. This will result in permanently higher fuel costs, unless the US can impose a military solution, which is difficult to do with all the cheerleaders demanding an end to the war. This will mean only higher oil prices and more war later once Iran uses the Billions it will receive to finally get nuclear weapons and replenish their drones and ballistic missiles. Then the real costs will be revealed.
But Trump said Iran’s Nuclear capability was annihilated last July.
Maybe Steve is smart enough to realize Trump is a complete and total moron and that only an idiot would believe what he says?!
Steve, since you can divine the future as to the definitive costs to us if we dont kill a whole bunch more of the little people why dont you enlighten us on some stock tips?
I’m one of the few here who agree with you. Trump will back out of the war and Ameicans are against the war. So what we should do is arm the people with automatic rifles with plenty of ammo so they can topple the regime in a civil war. I think that’s the best we can hope for. The Strait will be re-opened, one way or another. Closing it is an act of war against the world.
Iran’s Zarif Wants a Bilateral Reset With U.S. That the Gulf Can’t AcceptFormer FM’s terms for ending the war leave out the states that absorbed the most damage.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/03/iran-zarif-united-states-war-gulf-states-damage/
U.S.-Iran War Is Stranding Sailors In The Strait Of Hormuz
https://www.jalopnik.com/2139587/us-iran-war-stranding-sailors-strait-of-hormuz/
The Leviathan natural gas field ~130km offshore Haifa, Israel has restarted operations as of the 2nd of April.
Chevron owns 39.66%
New/Med energy owns 45.34%
Ratio energy owns 15%
Iran is no longer considered a threat.
I wonder if Israel will use the funds to pay the US back for the war they suckered Trump into? Nope, guess not!
A corrupt, degenerate, insane p.o.s.
You have accurately described politicians across the planet.
The Pentagon has failed eight consecutive audits. They cannot tell their auditors where they money goes. There seems to be no penalty for failing audits, so why should they make a serious effort to pass?
Until they can pass an audit, their budget should not be increased by even one cent.
Hitler’s Personality…. Lacked Empathy: often extreme actions against perceived enemies.
Manipulative: Manipulated public opinion with shrewd complex techniques.
Superficial: gave charismatic speeches while hiding his aggressive goals.
Impulsive : Impulsive decisions, particularly with military strategy.
Often Ignored Norms: blatant disregard for human ethics.
Whom can you think of today who is doing a repeat performance?
All of congressional republicans? All of the senate republicans?
The president and his sycophants?
this is a long time in the making. The republican political machine. Organized by the very wealthy with general aligning goals. Money power religion. Lots of money combined with citizen united / judges suggested by the federalist society and heritage foundation. conservative media shaping conservative voters beliefs. Why do you think they wont pass any laws on / fb/ x tictoc / ai anything that can be used as a tool to sway votes. Along the way Everyone got their hands out to make or graft money. From trump at the top / corporations / influencers/ media / congressmen/ to tarrio selling tee shirts.
Less government less people holding anyone accountable.
That is the republican party. So dont just blame the bad apples at the top keep working down to the bottom of the barrel to the state level. Look into operation red map. gerrymandering starts at the state and local level.
In the 20 or 30 years ive been following politics it has not been about policy with the republican party. Its been the same culture war / god/ guns/ immigration/ gays / abortion / small government etc all the same talking ole talking points. Cant solve a problem though. Always a bad guy keeping them from success. Usually dems/ immigrants gays. Somebody besides their own policies do not really reflect the views of the middle of the road voter. . . Look what happened with abortion. Oh most of the voters are ok with some of abortion.
Dont get me wrong i dont have a problem with republican voters and i try to look independently at any issue. I just think they are getting abused by the people who represent them. Now shapers have poked the dog so many times they got trump. I think the republican voter is starting to realize maybe the politicians dont represent their interest.
Ps sorry for the rant.
Good rant it is. And I had/have neighbors that are all about most of what you note… The Fox/Church sheeple are frightening to me.
then move to the west side of chicago where you will fit in and feel safe there. bring a bulletbroof vest and a 9mm with a clip and leave the crucifix at home , you won’t need it.
Hitler: Volkswagen and Autobahn
Trump: Trumpcoin
One more: going against the advice of his generals.
Hitler was a loud psychopath just like Trump….but Hitler killed a lot of Germans, and Trump has avoided killing Americans so far.
Should anyone be surprised? Typical Trump in negotiating mode. Ask for something absurd, act like it’s normal, then back off by half. Same ole same ole
It’s not working with Iran. They rejected his absurd 15 point proposal, so he asked for a 48 hour cease fire.
They told him to pound sand. They know his promises mean nothing.
Defense contractors have a long, documented history of billing the Pentagon for overvalued products, often engaging in severe price gouging for spare parts and weapons systems. Reviews have found markup profits as high as 4,436% to 9,380% on some items, such as helicopter and aircraft parts.
EASY – – Markup profits up another 50%.
Thanks, Commander in Chief. Remember? I bought 200 Million $Trump meme.
The Government spends money like it grows on all their Taxpayers Trees? Military Contractors even supplied a toilet seat and only charged — $6 Million Dollars ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4cVaybsz6Q
Ah, the ‘good ‘ol days’. Remember a few decades back when we had powerful and profound Speakers of the House? Like Tip O’Neal and such. Now we have weak childish bumbling Trump serving Keystone Cops:
To wit:
“Last Friday, Speaker Mike Johnson indignantly dismissed a Senate-passed bill deal to reopen the Homeland Security Department without funding for immigration enforcement as a “joke.”
By Wednesday, he was jointly issuing a news release with the Senate leader endorsing it.
But early Thursday morning, he declined to bring it up in the House, punting a chance to try to reopen the department until at least mid-April and avoiding the risk that hard-right Republicans would either block it or threaten to oust him for doing so. Then, he spent much of the afternoon huddled in a heated conference call with his angry G.O.P. colleagues, privately trying to persuade them to eventually embrace the deal, which he had decried as “ridiculousness” just days before.
That, too, apparently failed; there were no plans for the House to quickly reconvene, and by Thursday evening, it was not clear when or even whether Mr. Johnson might bring the bill up.
Mr. Johnson’s contortions on the homeland security measure over the last several days reflect his weak hold on his tiny and fractious majority, a persistent vulnerability that has characterized his tenure in what is supposed to be the most powerful job in Congress.
They were the whipsawing moves of a leader who derives his influence nearly entirely from President Trump and defers to him routinely, and who must live in constant fear of being thrown overboard by restive Republicans who have shown they are more than willing to oust a speaker who compromises with Democrats to get something done.”
Pentagon Pete’s Own Troops Ridicule His Rebrand With Dark New Nickname
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pete-hegseths-own-troops-ridicule-his-rebrand-with-dark-new-nickname/
Good article. McNamera’s highest achievement was the Ford Falcon.
As I have often said, the only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is the way(s) they want to spend us into complete and total bankruptcy. One side typically favors defense spending while the other likes social programs.
Of course in the end (which will come)it is a distinction without a difference.
My suggestion would be to freeze defense at current levels and cut all other budgets by 10%.
No, not a distinction without a difference. Social programs fund much needed help for the desperately poor. It helps families with sick children, provides food to those who would otherwise go without, and all kinds of other wonderful things. Military spending kills people and makes wealthy shareholders in the MIC even wealthier. Fascinated you didn’t know that.
I would cut the military budget by 95%. The USA is protected by the two oceans, and a friendly Mexico and Canada. I would also crush healthcare costs through a massive national purchasing program. After those two cuts, I would raise taxes high enough that we wouldn’t have a budget deficit at all.
Money going in at the lower end of the economy trickles up and is turned over and taxed many times before it ends up as a treasury in some fat cats portfolio.
Cut the military budget. All they do is make enemies.
They are very good at killing children, especially little girls 150 at a time.
More money to buy new weapons? Not needed because China is not going to sell gallium, tungsten and REEs to the US and its allies for military production. So I wonder where these fresh funds will go. To hookers in Dubai taking care of tens of US thousands ground forces? Or to Iran to release US pilots?
I’m from Australia. We’ll sell you gallium and tungsten if you want it.
But King Chaos has the time, & wants the money, to reopen Alcatraz.
‘the notorious prison closed more than 60 years ago due to its crumbling infrastructure and high maintenance costs.”
Shirley, it’ll be cheaper now…
Trump wants $152 million to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz as a secure prison | CNN Politics
When midterms roll around…
it should be remembered:
the Republicans put all their eggs into this one basket case.
My fear when reading this is always the same–that even a portion of the increase gets approved but inevitably the cuts never materialize, the endless (growing) deficit. It’s almost as reliable as Old Faithful–spending increases pass, cuts get pushed out, reduced or axed.
Why would you ever cut spending when you can cut revenues? You make everyone happy! It’s not like anyone is going to hold their politicians accountable.
Baby boomers’s big efff youu to the next generations on their way out…the worst generation ever. What a shame!
PS – Been reading you for 15+ years now, Mish. I appreciate your commentary immensely. But I HAD to post this.
Sometimes I wonder if there is a hidden hand that dictates all of this. It seems that it is time to have another world war. In preparation, Russia is being forced into China’s corner, so the two sides will be roughly equal. Now the spending on arms is ramping up.
I do realize that a dominant species has to control its own population, since it cannot be controlled by predators. Also, because we are smart enough to have figured hygiene out, micro-organisms can’t do the job of controlling our numbers. So it seems that war is the only option.
Continued explosion of our numbers without the selective pressure imposed by war would probably lead to a drastic decline in average intelligence, I suppose. So maybe it is for the best.
I hope President Trump understands his place in the scheme of things. I hope Bill Gates and Elon Musk are on the job, too.
And what about Obi Wan Kenobi?
Hopefully, one day, you come to understand that human population growth is declining very rapidly even in Africa and S. America. It is in actual decline in most of Europe and Asia.
Thanks for drawing that to my attention, but I think it is only INTELLIGENT humans whose populations are declining. I have been to funerals of people who were retarded, but not bad people (otherwise I wouldn’t have been there), and have been astonished by how many relatives showed up. I think that is the explanation for the continued population growth in Africa. I don’t have any view about Latin America.
Your klan hood is showing.
Wow, a well-spoken bigot bot.
Excellent! This bodes very well for Huntsville 🚀
Dude, traffic’s already a nightmare and space command hasn’t even arrived yet.
As today. see debt to penny…
2026-04-01 39, 016 trln
2025-04-02, 36,214 trln
usa deficit is $2.8 trln
BREAKING: Another US Jet Lost: A-10 Warthog Attack Plane Crashes Near Strait of Hormuz After Iran F-15 ‘Strike’
Need $500 billion to replace all the planes falling out of the sky
Money printer go…brrrrrrrr
But just think of all the Keynesian stimulus we’re getting from the lost planes! It’s a win!
did you read the post,??
dont worry .. MONEY BE A PLENTY!
Trump should be wing walking on every one of them.
Since DT changed the department of defense to the department of war, I suggest changing the word Defense to the word War in all above instances. I think people would look at it more closely if they knew all these dollars going to war spending.
Taco and his partners in crime should be required to take a basic economics course. Of course, none of them are capable of understanding it.
A virus or an armed robber does not need to understand a balance sheet.
Deficits don’t matter dontcha know, at least according to Cheney type chickenhawks.
Sums where we are and how we got here. Clinton has been our Only fiscal conservative
Do you think we’re going to try to do something stupid this weekend? or more stupid as the case may be ?
seems like things are lining up, let me put on my tin foil hat and I’ll get back to you, lol.
“Something stupid”. We’re not just trying, we’re doing it. Every .. freaking .. day.
Gonna try and let Jesus out on Sunday.
6 years ago, the land of the free banned people from attending worship services on Easter and arrested a few who did so anyway. Anything is possible these days.
Who was President when that happened?
Yes…and who were the governors…mayors…the cops…the corps… the karens ….
A very lost opportunity to stick it all up their fing @sses
aren’t we still working on getting last year’s budget passed?
how.many lobster tails for Pete will that buy?
This absolute tragedy brought to you by MAGA voters.
Watching that fool Joe Rogan do the surprised Pikachu face now is repulsive.
=This absolute tragedy brought to you by MAGA voters.
SORRY PUMPKIN. it seems you are not USa citizen
USA congress votes for money. president just executes!
we will see HOW TOUGH DEMS ARE!
Completely misplaced priorities.
I can’t believe ADDING $1/2 Trillion in spending to a budget that NEEDED HUGE CUTS ANYWAY!
These Defense Contractors and Military gun-ho nuts are like coke addicts. Just can’t get enough. And can’t get enough of other people’s lives. F’ Trump’s bone spur lies; get his fat ass out there on the lines.
Parallels? I don’t recall the details, but if I recall wasn’t Great Britan’s demise attributed to massive war debts crippling the country early last century??
BTW, Where TF is Musk and DOGE on this? F’, he needs an army of chainsaws for the OLD Defense Budget!
I’m not sure why Americans ever believed putting someone so erratic in charge was a good idea—beyond the fact that their preferred side won. In the long run, though, it’s a loss for everyone.
MAGA voters were already losers. They were just trying to bring the majority winners down to their level of ignorance and misery. And they picked the right man for the job!
Canadian Prepper says this is preperation for military takeover of US government.
Rubio made an asinine comment that if Iran had spent its money on its people and infrastructure instead of missiles and drones, it would have been better off. (Same could be said for the U.S., huh?)
WRONG. If Iran did not have anti-air capability or offensive capability, the U.S. and Israel would have been carpet bombing all of Iran right now with thousands of huge gravity bombs instead of the stand off weapons it is forced to use right now.
The damage to Iran would have been far worse by now if Iran had not made those investments. It’s was their wisest spending ever.
It is the United States that would have been better off without spending $200 billion (or more) on this foolish war of choice and spending it on U.S. infrastructure instead.
downvoted by a MAGA no doubt
I’m a maga voter, i upvoted you. what you said wasn’t wrong. what is wrong in the comment and elsewhere in this section is the notion that preposterous wastes of money and deficits didn’t occur prior and that program x/y/z would have been a better spend. . the entire thing is a trainwreck enabled by printed money
so Maga is a failure then? Nothing has changed at all.
Hillary Clinton still not locked up and supports the Iran War.
Trumps grift is as bad or worse than any of the democrats.
nothing any of them do is determined by the consent of the governed.
time to find a new movement I would think.
No new movement needed. Just pass the cups of poisoned kool-aide!
The F15 chasing and unsuccessfully downing a drone in Iraq sums up the efforts in this war. The US is always close to its goals and never reaches them despite all of the circus acts attempted.
The goal is to maximize shareholder value in Lockheed-Martin. This war is an amazing success.
Balls on the 1 yard, but can’t punch it in lol