„Die versteckten Kosten: Schäden an 13 US-Stützpunkten im Nahen Osten“ .

„The Hidden Cost: Damage to 13 U.S. Bases in the Middle East“

The damage across the region is now estimated to be at least $800 million¹ based on satellite imagery, regional reporting, and defense sector assessments of destroyed barracks, power stations, water systems, radar arrays, aircraft shelters, and communications buildings at thirteen US bases in Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Many of the 13 bases are uninhabitable², with housing blocks gutted, generators destroyed, and dining facilities unusable. Many bases can no longer house and feed troops. They can still launch aircraft, but it no longer functions as a military base, more like a fenced-in disaster zone, with the remaining personnel operating under conditions the Pentagon has not detailed.

This is why American troops are in hotel rooms³. With barracks unusable and utilities offline, the military had to move personnel into whatever intact structures still had electricity, plumbing, and roofs that did not leak. In Kuwait City that means large hotels that still have working utilities. In Doha it is the same. In Bahrain the same again. These hotels are likely luxurious, but they are the only buildings available. Officers, pilots, other eligible employees are given private rooms. Rooms are assigned, some troops share. Movement is restricted, no Karaoke bar, and meals come from contractors delivering trays to conference rooms. We don’t know which hotels our troops are staying in, for obvious security reasons, but it is no Motel 6. As a result of this excursion, the U.S. is made vulnerable in the Middle East with these damaged bases and depleted munitions. The cost of repairs is always more than the initial estimates, and the hotel bill will be sizeable. The U.S. has used years‘ worth of missile production. Our bases are in shambles. Iran has the Strait of Hormuz locked up, and the Average Joe would like to know…..Are we winning yet?

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1. [https://newrepublic.com/post/208211/us-troops-abandon-military-bases-persian-gulf-kuwait-iran-strikes?utm_source](https://newrepublic.com/post/208211/us-troops-abandon-military-bases-persian-gulf-kuwait-iran-strikes?utm_source)

2. “Many of the 13 American bases across Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates had become close to being uninhabitable as a result of persistent strikes,” according to reporting from the New York Times (via Yahoo News).

3. “Thousands of American troops have been moved into hotels and office buildings after persistent strikes left many of the 13 bases nearly uninhabitable,” according to reporting from the New York Times (via Yahoo News).

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Isn’t the US spending like a billion a day? 800m is pocket change when you have a money printer and don’t need congress for shit.

That can’t be real. Just the THAAD radar and E3 alone are worth a billion plus.