Quote Originally Posted by MOZZER2 View Post
sleepy joe just announced another 800 million us dollars worth of weapons ammunitions package to Ukraine

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/13/p...den/index.html

FFS
That sounds a lot of money but pales into insignificance compared to what the USA has spent in wars from WW1 on. I don't know how anyone can authoritatively give exact figures for how much wars costs but the following are some data I found by doing a quick Google search.

Note: these figures are in US$ at today's valuations (i.e. figures recalculated to account for inflation) and these sums are only those spent by the USA alone and also do not include the cost of repairing infrastructure following these wars. Hence the total true cost is unknown but must be unimaginably higher when you take into account what the opposing countries must have spent in fighting the same wars. All this of course does not take into account the amount of human misery that these wars have inflicted and, as is all too clear from recent events, still does.

WW1: 381 billion
WW2: 4.1 trillion
Korean war: 389 billion
Vietnam war: 1 trillion
Iraq: 1 trillion
Afghanistan: 1.5 trillion

The total is over $8 trillion - an obscene amount of money.