The Cost of Trump’s War So Far
March 4, 2026
The cost of Trump’s unnecessary and foolish war so far is about $1 billion. Taxpayers will be on the hook for billions more in the coming weeks. Just transporting troops, ships, and aircraft to the region cost $630 million. Defense contractors (merchants of death) must be salivating.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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