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The US spent $155 billion on contractors in Iraq.

There have been 186,736 – 210,090 documented civilian deaths from violence between 2003 to 2023 in Iraq.

That comes to around $800,000 per civilian death from violence on average.

Heck of a business model…
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Aurelius 2y ago

Imagine what that cash could have done for healthcare. Public housing. Education. The Environment. Infrastructure.

Nah, we had to kill people and take their oil.

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Leopold Bloom 2y ago

Yep somehow it’s easier to incentivise mass industrial-scale death than it is to provide people with the necessary infrastructure to create a better society.