Gregory's Servera year in Ukraine has already cost US more than a decade in Afghanistan
https://www.statista.com/chart/29375/us-military-aid-to-ukraine-compared-to-past-wars/
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 For perspective, Trumps *tax breaks* cost more per year than a decade of Afghanistan. Afghanistan was barely a war for the US: more a ticket to get an enabling AUMF for the big one and a disasterous experiment in "postwar" Neocon occupation. Boy Genius, Turd Blossom, and Rummy brought us the war crime in Iraq, costing about 20x Afghanistan in direct costs, and 25x the direct costs in indirect costs. @yogthos the chart shows (inflation-adjusted) *average* yearly spending, not “cost per decade”, thus your summary of it is incorrect. The Afghanistan operation lasted over two decades at varying levels of funding, totaling to over 2 trillion USD in spending by some accounts. It is still noteworthy that “no direct involvement” is more expensive than an average year of active involvement, although potentially understandable considering they’re facing a resourceful nation-state, not Taliban. @temochka this is just military aid excluding weapons and equipment, total cost of military aid is much higher. Meanwhile, the cost of footing the bill for the civilian economy is another 3 billion a month https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-12/ukraine-needs-at-least-3-billion-a-month-next-year-imf-says#xj4y7vzkg It's pretty clear that the costs involved here are absolutely astronomical. @yogthos according to this source, the total spending for 2022 is around $75 bil (https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-aid-has-us-sent-ukraine-here-are-six-charts) Still way under the total for the first decade in Afghanistan but seems to be above the average yearly spending during that war. |
@yogthos don't worry it's us, the Europeans who are paying it through US gas.