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    Die Ausgaben der USA für einen „rücksichtslosen“ Iran-Krieg hätten laut UN 87 Millionen Menschenleben retten können


    Die Ausgaben der USA für einen „rücksichtslosen“ Iran-Krieg hätten laut UN 87 Millionen Menschenleben retten können

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/20/us-spending-on-reckless-iran-war-could-have-saved-87m-lives-says-un

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    3. Hapten on

      Let me get this right, this money was already in the existing DoD budget, just not earmarked for Iran. That is why it never went through congress because they didn’t need additional funding. In short, it was never going to save lives and was always going towards weapons in one way or another.

      So another nothing statement from the UN.

    6. Brief_Hospital_1766 on

      Unless he means ‚White lives‘ it doesn’t matter to America.

    8. IntelArtiGen on

      If the UN’s job is to promote peace and prevent wars, I’m not sure these messages are effective. The US invested in missiles rather than in healthcare, Iran did the same, Russia did the same, almost all countries do the same thing actually, the world is paying hundreds if not thousands of billions in weapons. We could all invest this money for climate change, healthcare, to fight against poverty. We don’t, and we all know that. Will this message help prevent future wars, and create peace, and convince all nations to stop wars forever? I doubt so. Other approaches, on the other hand, may be more effective. Countries involved have allies, they can be pressured into a fair and lasting peace. We pay diplomats to do this job, hopefully they can do it well.

    9. LiteratureMindless71 on

      Oh the spending the US did, has only increased the account size of the politicians themselves.

    10. jjax2003 on

      But then how would Trump and family get rich off manipulating the stock market? And what about the Epstein files?

    12. Better_Cauliflower63 on

      Ok I’m against the war but that is hypocritical. Throughout the years the US has been about the largest contributor to various UN humanitarian programs. If the rest of the countries were to contribute more, hundreds of million lives could have been saved. 

    15. New_Faithlessness384 on

      Tom Fletcher wants to get paid for kissing donalds ass. Yet another prostitute emerged.

    17. Substantial_Milk8170 on

      We somehow always have infinite blank checks for the military-industrial complex, but citizens still have to set up a GoFundMe just to afford an ambulance ride. Sounds about right.

    18. whentheworldquiets on

      I wouldn’t be so naiive as to suggest that the entirety of the US’s $2,000,000,000,000 defence budget (yes, that is the correct amount of zeroes) should be diverted to humanitarian causes around the world…

      But if, say, 10% of it were to be, how many enemies around the world would the US realistically have? With what level of popular support? And how many friends? How many *customers?* You lift a country off its knees, how keen do you think they’re going to be to buy American? God, that’s the world I want to live in, where I actively want to buy American because I respect what they’re doing for humanity; where it’s like buying organic.

      Instead, we’re seeing America turning increasingly inward. Actively attempting to impoverish its friends rather than cultivating them as prosperous, eager customers. It makes a pretense of being capitalist, but it’s degenerated into short-sighted kleptocracy. Republicans are obviously leading the charge, but the fact is that the US’s political median has been skewed for decades, now, to the point where the Overton window no longer includes a geopolitical strategy that’s in the US’s own best interests.

    19. aNuggetsUncle on

      The weapons used were procured and paid for years ago. The UN is just bitching because they want more money.

    20. SlaterVBenedict on

      We know. Trump and the Republicans understand what they’re doing. They do not care about the cost to our national security, the environment, or human lives. They just want their cut and are willing to sacrifice literally everyone else to get it.

    25. BrokenManOfSamarkand on

      The UN should tell Iran to give up their nukes and stop funding terrorism and then we wouldn’t have to bomb them. They can put that money into saving lives too!

    26. HP844182 on

      Damn, sucks there are countries like Iran in the world that need to be taken care of 

    27. AttentionOpening8984 on

      Why would the USA pay to save non-American lives ? There is enough poverty in the USA. Fix th issues at home first before helping people outside the USA

    28. ScoobyD00BIEdoo on

      Oh the UN is still going? Aren’t there like 4 wars happening right now with the UN doing shit all?

    30. Gustavoconte on

      They’re just salty the US is no longer funding their idiotic and wasteful agendas

    32. Have_A_Jelly_Baby on

      Yeah, but then they couldn’t distract everyone from the Epstein files.

    34. johnnyringo1985 on

      Wait until they run the numbers on how many lives could be saved if everyone in a western country kept working another 5 years instead of retiring!

    37. Iron_Disciple on

      All we’re doing is murdering Islamic extremist terrorists. Worth the money and their “lives saved potentially” numbers are complete bull.

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