Since 9/11, America has started wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya,and Somalia; the U.S. has conducted counter-terrorism operations in 82 countries, and drops a bomb on someone somewhere on Earth every 12 minutes. The U.S. has killed bare minimum of 801,0000 people (for every civilian bombed or shot, 4 die from war-related hunger and disease) and made 37,000 refugees at a cost of 6.4 trillion dollars. The World Bank estimates that we could eliminate world hunger for $7 billion a year. In other words, for the cost of GWOT, we could've ended world hunger for the next 914 years. But where would be the profit in that? Costs of War
War has always been profitable 36 days after becoming US President, Joe Biden bombs Syria US President Joe Biden on Thursday directed US military airstrikes in eastern Syria against facilities belonging to what the Pentagon said were Iran-backed militia, in a calibrated response to rocket attacks against U.S. targets in Iraq.
It's always made me wonder just how much war mongering legislators make UNDER the table on war contracts----contracts known and contracts unknown. Decisions also involve the pentagon in major ways.($)
The Military industrial complex as Eisenhower called it and Smedley Butler had previously warned about.
