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7. The Cost of Wasting Military Hardware

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #6)

Mon Mar 2, 2026, 05:44 AM

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Is minor compared to how much the stock market is going to loose and how much more inflation is going to extract from the consumer as oil prices climb. This will amount to trillions in loses. And the longer Iran is able to put up resistance the worse things will get.

I wouldn’t want to be an Israeli or US pilot shot down over Iran friendly territory right now. Remember Iran has several militia scattered across the ME that are active right now.

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