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lightscription@lemmy.world Joined: 2024-04-03

$14 Trillion spent on Pentagon since Afghanistan

7,057 dead military post-911
and
30,187 suicides

Which means deceased members of the US Armed Forces are more 3 times more likely to have killed themselves than to have been killed in action.
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/military/killed

432,093 direct civilian deaths,
3.6-3.8 million related harmed,
7.6 million child malnutrition
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians

40℅ (increase to over half in next decades) of vets with lifetime disability
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/economic/budget/veterans

Welcome to the nostalgia-filled piefed instance of yesteryear.

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