US blockade costs Iran $4.8B, US Navy acting 'sort of like pirates,' Trump says(www.jpost.com)
3 pointsby Levitating4 hours ago1 comment
  • xvxvx4 hours ago
    Pennies compared to what it has cost us:

    $25bn or $1 trillion: How much has Iran war really cost the US?

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/30/25bn-or-1-trillion-...

    • SilverElfin4 hours ago
      It could be worth it if the cost is on the lower end of that. Iran is a major source of instability in the world through all the proxy groups they support. And they have a theocratic authoritarian government that isn’t great for Iranians either.

      Someone put together a list of what has been achieved:

      https://xcancel.com/mdubowitz/status/2047489126602088842

      Although if the cost is $1 trillion maybe it’s not worth it.

      • techblueberry3 hours ago
        On the one hand this may have been the time to do it, there was a confluence of factors that seemed to make Iran vulnerable.

        But it seems weird to take a victory lap on most of the objectives. No one thought the USA was incapable of bombing Iran back to the Stone Age. So while I think some of the points about the region abandoning Iran are cogent, it wasn’t the first year after starting the war anyone was worried about, it was the next twenty.