{"id":69152,"date":"2026-03-17T06:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/trumps-iran-war-has-cost-americans-at-least-11bn-already-and-thats-just-the-start-arwa-mahdawi\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T06:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:55:16","slug":"trumps-iran-war-has-cost-americans-at-least-11bn-already-and-thats-just-the-start-arwa-mahdawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/trumps-iran-war-has-cost-americans-at-least-11bn-already-and-thats-just-the-start-arwa-mahdawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Iran war has cost Americans at least $11bn already. And that\u2019s just the start | Arwa Mahdawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That $11.3bn doesn\u2019t include any estimate of repairing facilities or replacing losses<\/p>\n<p>Generally speaking, when you bomb another country, and that country retaliates, you call it a \u201cwar\u201d. Very simple word. Three letters. Even Donald Trump knows how to spell it.<\/p>\n<p>But be careful about calling the US-Israeli attacks on Iran, which have expanded into an Israeli <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/clyz78kgp22o\">ground invasion<\/a> of Lebanon, a \u201cwar\u201d. The geniuses in the White House can\u2019t seem to figure out what the hell they\u2019re doing. House speaker Mike Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/watch-live-house-expected-to-vote-iran-on-war-powers-resolution?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">announced<\/a> on 5 March that \u201cwe are not at war\u201d and that the US has \u201cno intention of being at war\u201d. Some lawmakers, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenLummis\/status\/2029242466852061434\">senator Cynthia Lummis<\/a>, meanwhile, are arguing that the US has been in \u201cforever war\u201d with Iran for decades.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/mar\/17\/trump-iran-war-cost-americans-11-billion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That $11.3bn doesn\u2019t include any estimate of repairing facilities or replacing losses Generally speaking, when you bomb another country, and that country retaliates, you call it a \u201cwar\u201d. Very simple word. Three letters. Even Donald Trump knows how to spell it. But be careful about calling the US-Israeli attacks on Iran, which have expanded into &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s Iran war has cost Americans at least $11bn already. And that\u2019s just the start | Arwa Mahdawi\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/trumps-iran-war-has-cost-americans-at-least-11bn-already-and-thats-just-the-start-arwa-mahdawi\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s Iran war has cost Americans at least $11bn already. And that\u2019s just the start | Arwa Mahdawi\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}