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post 10000227868 Yesterday, 01:36 PM
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Pentagon seeks $80 billion from Congress for Iran war

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has told senators it needs roughly $80 billion, mostly to cover the cost of the U.S. war against Iran, adding to what is already a sizable military spending boost being sought by President Donald Trump.

The White House Office of Management and Budget has yet to make a formal request to Congress. But Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been making the rounds on Capitol Hill, including Monday evening.

A top deputy defense secretary told senators about the Iran funding request last week, according to two people familiar with the situation but not authorized to discuss it publicly.The Wall Street Journal first reported on the developments.

The push for billions of dollars in Iran war funding comes at a fraught political moment. Lawmakers are skeptical of the deal Trump struck with Iran to bring an end to the war, and wary of next steps. The White House has requested a remarkable $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon — a nearly 50% increase over the current fiscal year’s funding levels.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he’s expecting a supplemental spending request from the administration for the war, and when it arrives, “we’ll work through it and see where the votes are.”“We need to make sure we’re doing everything we can to replenish, resupply a lot our munitions that have been depleted — not only just with what’s happening with Iran, but prior to that,” said Thune, R-S.D


https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-costs-trump-senate-hegseth-4648071a31afceaa55638c69ea021fd8
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Should never have left the Gold Standard lads, the way they print it now. Terrible.
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Wars cost money. Shocker.

I would pay attention to how much of this new money request gets into the budget and then doesn't leave the following years. They need to increase military budget due the previous half decade+ of inflation eroding how far the dollars go. This is a way justify the increase with a somewhat reasonable excuse.
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You mean for Israel.

The money is for Israel.
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Originally Posted By Ironmanlet⏩
You mean for Israel.

The money is for Israel.
How much money does Israel receive each year? What are they obligated to spend that money on?

Vast majority of it goes back to buying military equipment from the US. I find it interesting that somehow this is completely forgotten, or somehow the connection isn't made when it comes to public discourse. It used to be a major hot button talking point a decade or so back. What happened?
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You work all year to.get 100,000 and they take 30,000 off the top. You have to pay all your living expenses with 70,000 and any money left over for vacation just to relax you so you can wage slave another year


Meanwhile they just print 80,000,000,000 from the sky like it's nothing. Don't worry your grand kids will pay it back
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Originally Posted By Papi_Chulo⏩
You work all year to.get 100,000 and they take 30,000 off the top. You have to pay all your living expenses with 70,000 and any money left over for vacation just to relax you so you can wage slave another year


Meanwhile they just print 80,000,000,000 from the sky like it's nothing. Don't worry your grand kids will pay it back
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Originally Posted By JeepBruh⏩
How much money does Israel receive each year? What are they obligated to spend that money on?

Vast majority of it goes back to buying military equipment from the US. I find it interesting that somehow this is completely forgotten, or somehow the connection isn't made when it comes to public discourse. It used to be a major hot button talking point a decade or so back. What happened?
By “military equipment from the US” you mean defense contractor companies. Like, you and I are not getting that money.

The point of war is money at the tax payers expense. Nothing else.

The only thing that happens during war is a lot of people die, and a lot of money moves.


There is nothing virtuous or positive about this man. Just death funded by you and me so billionaires can be richer.
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Originally Posted By havoc00⏩
Brutal
When Bibi needs money Congress will literally come into work at midnight to approve printing billions

When the social security pyramid funds are running dry all of a sudden it's we need a balanced budget, we need to raise the age limit, keep them working until they're 75 ect

What happened to just printing that money? You just did it for Israel two weeks ago
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Meanwhile were told ss is insolvent

I swear to god these mfers
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Originally Posted By wasp9166⏩
Meanwhile were told ss is insolvent

I swear to god these mfers
Literally a joke
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Originally Posted By Ironmanlet⏩
By “military equipment from the US” you mean defense contractor companies. Like, you and I are not getting that money.

The point of war is money at the tax payers expense. Nothing else.

The only thing that happens during war is a lot of people die, and a lot of money moves.


There is nothing virtuous or positive about this man. Just death funded by you and me so billionaires can be richer.
So why did you specifically say Israel rather than MIC? Defense contractors and MIC were the main buzz words/talking points used by the anti-war crowd during the Bush/Obama wars.

BTW, I don't disagree, but if you were upset about the MIC and truly didn't want people to die, why do you no longer call out the MIC if it was the main anti-war talking point the past few decades? What changed?

Instead, all I see are buzz words like billionaires and Israel.

My point is I think you are an NPC who just regurgitates whatever the current NPC vernacular allows. The current thing. You pretend like you are smart and know what is going on, yet all I see are the same arguments I have already seen 1000x before.
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Originally Posted By Papi_Chulo⏩
When Bibi needs money Congress will literally come into work at midnight to approve printing billions

When the social security pyramid funds are running dry all of a sudden it's we need a balanced budget, we need to raise the age limit, keep them working until they're 75 ect

What happened to just printing that money? You just did it for Israel two weeks ago
And we won’t do shit about it.
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At the end of the day we have absolutely no clue how big of a threat Iran is and what they are capable of doing. Their behavior on their own citizens show that there is complete lack of humanity. They follow the Kuran, and openly call for the destruction of the west and the US.
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Originally Posted By Pats2022SBwin⏩
At the end of the day we have absolutely no clue how big of a threat Iran is and what they are capable of doing. Their behavior on their own citizens show that there is complete lack of humanity. They follow the Kuran, and openly call for the destruction of the west and the US.
Propaganda fucking bullshit.

They have been weeks away from nukes since the 80s.

It’s all fucking bullshit.
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In b4 that war ends up going on for a decade and costs a trillion
Back with my Fam
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Originally Posted By JeepBruh⏩
Wars cost money. Shocker.

I was told this wasn't a war, though.
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Originally Posted By SaltyDog920⏩
I was told this wasn't a war, though.
By who?
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Originally Posted By Pats2022SBwin⏩
At the end of the day we have absolutely no clue how big of a threat Iran is and what they are capable of doing. Their behavior on their own citizens show that there is complete lack of humanity. They follow the Kuran, and openly call for the destruction of the west and the US.
You should read actual history. You would be shocked at the treatment of "allies" by Israel. Don't forget they bombed our own ship to drag the US into a war.

Historical ties between Iran (historically Persia) and Jewish people are among the oldest in the world, stretching back over 2,500 years to the Babylonian exile, when King Cyrus the Great freed the Jewish people and helped them rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem

When the Nazis invaded Europe, thousands of Jewish people fled to the Soviet Union to escape the advancing German army. In 1942, over 116,000 Polish refugees—including military personnel and civilians—were evacuated from the Soviet Union through the Caspian Sea into IranThe Sanctuary: Although Iran was facing food shortages and famine at the time, the Iranian government and the local Tehran Jewish community welcomed the refugees, setting up temporary camps and orphanages
Safe Passage: These refugees, affectionately known as the "Tehran Children", were safely harbored and eventually assisted in their onward journey to Mandatory Palestine by 1943

Abdol Hossein Sardari: Serving as the Iranian consul in Paris during the German occupation, Sardari used his diplomatic status to protect Iranian Jews living in France. He successfully argued that Iranian Jews were not ethnically Jewish but Persian, belonging to tribes that had lived in Persia for millennia. By leveraging these diplomatic protections and issuing passports, he spared countless individuals from Nazi internment and the Holocaust

And here is the obligatory "Iran will have nukes in two weeks" video

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Originally Posted By JeepBruh⏩
By who?
The Secretary of War

Because an actual war needs congressional approval.
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Originally Posted By WendellX⏩
When the Nazis invaded Europe, thousands of Jewish people fled to the Soviet Union to escape the advancing German army.
Fuking wat? Nazis kicked off the war by invading Poland with the Soviet Union.
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Originally Posted By Ironmanlet⏩
Propaganda fucking bullshit.

They have been weeks away from nukes since the 80s.

It’s all fucking bullshit.
It's not bullshit. There's people that hate us
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Originally Posted By JeepBruh⏩
Fuking wat? Nazis kicked off the war by invading Poland with the Soviet Union.
lol'd. Yeah the poles were fuked either way.
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Originally Posted By LDARidonot⏩
It's not bullshit. There's people that hate us
Not us, they dont hate us. They hate the institution of the United States.

The institution of the United States overthrew their government, placed their own puppet government in, and is now bombing their schools.

Hating the institution of the United States from their perspective makes sense.

It also makes sense from the tax payers perspective, but they are too brainwashed to understand that.
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Originally Posted By Ironmanlet⏩
Not us, they dont hate us. They hate the institution of the United States.

The institution of the United States overthrew their government, placed their own puppet government in, and is now bombing their schools.

Hating the institution of the United States from their perspective makes sense.

It also makes sense from the tax payers perspective, but they are too brainwashed to understand that.
A lot of these are wars fought on soil that east and west are trying to cover.

So do they hate the east, too?
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Originally Posted By Ironmanlet⏩
Not us, they dont hate us. They hate the institution of the United States.

The institution of the United States overthrew their government, placed their own puppet government in, and is now bombing their schools.

Hating the institution of the United States from their perspective makes sense.

It also makes sense from the tax payers perspective, but they are too brainwashed to understand that.
It's weird that every country the US destabilized and installed overly cruel dictators for our economic gain "hate our freedoms"
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Originally Posted By WendellX⏩
It's weird that every country the US destabilized and installed overly cruel dictators for our economic gain "hate our freedoms"
You're cool with it when the east do it?
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Originally Posted By JeepBruh⏩
Fuking wat? Nazis kicked off the war by invading Poland with the Soviet Union.
The goal of the invasion was to split Poland between the two countries, not to kill all the jews.

Germany and Russia had a non aggression pact in place about 3 months before the invasion, so Germany wasn't going to actively round up jews in Russian occupied land.

If you look at the map Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary were already aligned with the Germans, so the only safe passage was through Russia.
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