Trump thread 2.0

[Harvey Specter]

.....

Reports by the Anadolou news agency estimate that the US may have spent roughly $779m during the first 24 hours of Operation Epic Fury. The pre-strike military build-up, including repositioning aircraft, deploying more than a dozen naval vessels and mobilising regional assets, is estimated to have cost an additional $630m.

According to the Center for New American Security, it costs approximately $6.5m a day to operate a carrier strike group, such as the USS Gerald R Ford.

But experts suggest the bigger concern may not be the financial sustainability, but the inventory.

“It is reasonable to speculate that the pace of operations right now, in terms of numbers of interceptions, could not continue indefinitely, certainly, and perhaps could not continue for more than several weeks,” Peble said.

[JDMDreams]

United States of Iran

[GS8]

Originally Posted by JDMDreams

United States of Israel

Fixed

[blkgsr]

Originally Posted by Harvey Specter

.....

but aren't these costs happening anyways?

unless they're activating service members that are sitting at home not getting paid these guys are already on these boats which are generally already out on deployment?

I'm sure a good majority of these boats may have been in port before and now incurring more costs but wouldn't this be coming out of costs from a different side of their operating budget?

sure the rockets and missiles their firing off are costs but those were already purchased.....but here's the war machine going to work

[pastarocket]

Good job Kash Money!

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/polit...n-firings-iran

Just days before the United States launched a major military operation in Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen agents and staff members from a counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring threats from Iran, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

They were ousted for a simple reason: Each was involved in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s alleged retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

As a result, Patel hamstrung the Washington, DC-based FBI counterintelligence unit, known as CI-12, which handles cases ranging from mishandling of classified documents to tracking foreign spies operating on US soil.

The dismissals have added to concern inside the Justice Department and FBI that counterterrorism and intelligence investigations in the wake of the military operation in Iran could be hampered by a mass exodus of national security experts, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

And like the CI-12 unit, several senior officials were ousted or reassigned because of their involvement in Trump-related investigations, sources say. The removals have cost the Justice Department and FBI decades of combined experience in identifying the types of threats that sources say could appear in the wake of Operation Epic Fury.

[GLOW]

Originally Posted by pastarocket

Good job Kash Money!

[quasi]

Originally Posted by blkgsr

but aren't these costs happening anyways?

unless they're activating service members that are sitting at home not getting paid these guys are already on these boats which are generally already out on deployment?

I'm sure a good majority of these boats may have been in port before and now incurring more costs but wouldn't this be coming out of costs from a different side of their operating budget?

sure the rockets and missiles their firing off are costs but those were already purchased.....but here's the war machine going to work

The major cost is probably the ordinance but soldiers are also paid more when they are deployed for combat and then you have all the costs of restocking, lost equipment, I mean those 3 F15's they lose yesterday are probably worth 100 million each and that's just a Monday morning whoopee. War ain't cheap, it's one of the main reasons for the size of the US debt.