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Just a reminder, $18 billion is around $56 per US citizen.
And a second reminder, that a direct war against Iran (via Israel) or Russia (via Ukraine) would cost probably two orders of magnitude more money than fighting them via proxy like what's currently happening.
Proxy wars are cheap and do a lot of damage to our enemies.
What happens when the proxy in the 'proxy war' goes against the interests of the more powerful country?
What happens when the 'more powerful country' ends up doing the bidding of its 'proxy' because of domestic political concerns and how political bribery has embedded itself in the nation like a swollen carbuncle?
What happens when the 'proxy' starts doing damage to our other allies, our international reputation, and gives us nothing back in return?
What happens when this has been going on for 40+ years?
Think we, not our enemies, have gotten the shit end of this deal. Only Israel sees net benefit.
Does Iran have functional nuclear bombs yet?
The proxy war is working just fine. People just don't understand the goal.
Iran doesn't want nuclear bombs. They've been very clear about that, and while it might be posturing the reasons they stated make perfect sense. Being a potential nuclear power already gives them all the nuclear deterrent they can hope for without a large scale nuclear program that would get them bombed by the West.