A fraction of what your regular military budget is. Hell, a fraction of what the government already pays for healthcare.

Ask yourself one better: how much would Cuba style healthcare cost?

How much has this cost the USA?

When you consider how much we'd lose continuing to fight the war, it's a net gain.

The cost was bombing Iran to begin with, not paying reparations for the damage done.

It would cost the ultra wealthy the power they have over the proletariat.

Less than what taxpayers have paid directly to Trump organizations I'd imagine

The thing is, Congress is in bed with defense primes. This made them a lot of money. The american people on the other hand...

How much has this cost the USA?

Probably a lot on bombs, fuel, inflation etc. but this isn't really costing us anything. These were funds that Iran held in the US prior to trump pulling out of the iran deal the first time and were frozen because of sanctions. So it's more returning money that we stole rather then paying Iran with US taxpayer money.

Unfortunately they won't care about the $300 billion at all, because it'll never appear on Fox News or their safe spaces on social media. At most they've already signaled it will be completely lied about as an "investment fund" that will imply some value in return without promising, follow-up or accountability.

For reparations NOW. That's IF we stop bombing them NOW. THIS price will only go UP.

Art of the deal, indeed.

When do I get a refund for all the extra money I paid for fuel over the past few months? My job involves driving - I've put about 5,000 miles on my car since the beginning of April - so I'm definitely noticing the difference.

Looks like the Gulf petrostates will fund it

Trump is a lot more generous when it's not his money. He'll pay.

That's a good idea! Trump should get a loan to pay that himself. Maybe a 50year loan? A Wargage! It's a mortgage for wars. Let's say you can't pay right now, but you would really like to get rid of some country. You get a Wargage and just pay the minimum for 50 years! Get your family members into it to help you and you could own a war in no time! We just need a billion down payment and some collateral.

He never pays with his money, this isn't his money and if gas prices go down a fairly large percentage of americans will say "we kicked Iran's ass".

It's not Trump's money. He'd give them trillion's of US taxpayers' money if it made him look better.

Remember when they illegally sold weapons to Iran so they could illegally fund Contras in Central America?

Will Trump try to pay them with crypto?

That's some good photos, thanks for sharing.

So the IRGC and the Islamic Republic are still in place

American bombs killed a lot of them. We killed a lot of their wives and kids and friends and neighbors, too. We obliterated their homes and hospitals and highways, which will mean a wave of excess deaths come winter. And we killed a lot of the moderate diplomats interested in peaceful negotiations, so we've set the stage for wars to come.

America is paying them to stay in place.

America is paying them to replace all the shit we broke, in the hopes we can once against get access to cheap oil.

The alternative was to keep exchanging salvos - a la Russia/Ukraine - for an indefinite future period in the hopes that... ??? All the conservative Islamists in Iran will... ??? And then we can impose a new regime in Tehran at gunpoint, like we did so successfully in Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya and Syria?

More debt.

The amount of money the government prints and destroys is public information. You can't just raise the first one a ton without making people panic.

You can only do that so much before people stop trusting your currency. Up until recently, the Saudis sold oil exclusively for USD, now they've started selling it for other currencies including yuan.

China sells consumer goods to the US for USD. China gives that USD to the Saudis for oil. The Saudis give that USD back to the US in exchange for bombing civilians in Yemen. That's how things have worked for the past like 50 years.

If the USD (and the US) stops being seen as reliable, then eventually the whole thing falls apart, and we're seeing the first signs of that already. The Saudis will start telling us our bombs are too expensive and China will say the scraps of paper we give them aren't worth it. If we're not dropping bombs on behalf of oppressive monarchies in exchange for oil, and importing cheap goods from underpaid overseas workers, then what do we even have left, as a country?

It's probably for the best for the world in the long term that that system falls apart (provided Americans don't go apeshit and start WWIII, which is a big assumption), and in the very short term of course using the infinite money hack solves a lot of problems, but in the medium term, it's gonna be rocky.

Fortunately, there aren't any other major crises we've been kicking down the road for short term benefits that are going to reach a head in the near future, so we can focus excluively on that.

because it’s actually just a transfer of profit. to a corporation or seven. war is only ever about profit.

Debt isn't a problem until it suddenly is. That inflation you're brushing off can get worse, eventually to the point where they're printing money just to stay afloat. We're already at the point where $1 trillion goes to just paying the interest on the debt each year.

It's the same money that the board of peace is investing in Gaza rn

For this one thing yeah the small fraction of inflation wouldn't probably be noticeable. But you cannot do it for everything or every fraction adds up to a bunch.