To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1457135 ) 5/16/2024 4:05:16 PM From: Broken_Clock Read Replies (1) | Respond to And yet, Iraq still remains a relatively "stable" nation, while A*ghanistan fell to the Taliban. $728 billion: The Defense Department’s estimate of how much the U.S. spent directly on the war in Iraq from the 2003 through 2012 fiscal years (the official withdrawal happened at the end of 2011, a few months into the 2012 fiscal year). $1.6 trillion: The estimated amount spent — combined — on the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria from fiscal years 2001 through 2021. 4,492: Thenumber of U.S. servicemembers killed in Iraq .32,292: The number of U.S. servicemembers wounded in Iraq . Approximately 200,000 : The number of Iraqi civilians killed in the war . [other estimates range as high as well over 1,000,000]This is yet another one of those foreign policy paradoxes, right up there with Trump "starting no new wars" despite his hawkish bluster. What new ward did he start?By the way, how many American soldiers died in Iraq? No more than 4,500 over 20 years. (32K were wounded over that same time period.) Did Jesus draw a 'line inn the sand' between dead Iraqis and US soldiers?RuZZia suffers that many dead or wounded soldiers in Ukraine every month. Yet you still praise PooTin and the spirit of RuZZia's nationalism ... Good thing no Ukrainians have died and the US will 'back Ukraine till the last dead Uke soldier' https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-51424-putin-cleans-house-as?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1351274&post_id=144564655&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=gjqol&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email??"We have no reserves" ???? Ukraine’s military intelligence chief Budanov admitted to the New York Times that the situation is bad: “The situation is on the edge,” Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency said in a video call from a bunker in Kharkiv. “Every hour this situation moves toward critical.” “All of our forces are either here or in Chasiv Yar. I’ve used everything we have. Unfortunately, we don’t have anyone else in the reserves.”
