Progressive Politics

This will mean nothing to Magats unless they have someone directly involved. Gas prices however will get their attention.

On moral grounds, obviously, like all imperialist projects. Financially? It made a lot of money for the right people.

Well... we lost 2 THAAD radar arrays.

https://www.govconexec.com/articles/thaad-terminal-high-altitude-area-defense-breaking-down-the-economics-of-missile-defense/

The system’s approximate life cycle will cost around $14.9 billion (the amount was based on 1992 dollars). Currently, The THAAD system has an estimated cost of $23 billion, and moving forward, it will cost more.

So this from 2023... theres... been some inflation since then...

We had to strip down the one of these we had in South Korea, for parts, basically.

So... I'm gonna ballpark it and say that the two radar arrays total to ~$15 billion.

Just those two things.

So there's the approximate floor.

We've lost 4 F15-Es, at least 4 KC 135 refueling tanker aircraft... some number of A10s... an F35 got hit and was combat neutralized but did manage to limp back to base in one piece... will be very much not cheap to fix... ... the E-3 sentry (with possibly more of those lost or seriously damaged)... 2 little birds from the rescue of the downed pilot... at least 12 mq-9 reaper drones...

I mean add all that on, that's gotta be around $20 billion.

Lost asset? The asset is still in the white house. The war hawks that sell this stuff just got a payday to make replacements.

Air defense is good against planes and other big targets. But less effective against small suicide drones that can be mass produced for a fraction of the cost of a single anti-air missile.

Also, the US administration is probably the most incompetent ever, they understimated the retailatory capabilities of Iran by several orders of magnitude so they were caught unprepared.