[dwroberts]

The US military budget is 900 billion dollars. The government can afford a few hundred million for some sensors, it should not need private sector patrons

[mandeepj]

> The US military budget is 900 billion dollars.

The new budget proposal is $1.5T

[hxtk]

That number, incidentally, is the entire NATO military budget. Which scares me because I can imagine someone planning on taking action that would result in the dissolution of NATO thinking they can make up the difference that way and choosing that number with that in mind.

[justin66]

The government has already paid for the sensors.

[echelon]

> The US military budget is 900 billion dollars.

And we're about to pay over a third of that to Iran?

[pesus]

Is it actually coming out of the military budget? I assumed we were just going to get taxed for it, or they'd pull it from some other places that actually needs the funds.

Alternatively, they could just increase the military budget by 300 billion (or more).

[morkalork]

It's a good measure of scale. The USA is paying Iran an amount that is 1/3rd of its military budget in reparations because they "won".

[throwawaypath]

No, that was fake news. The 300 billion dollars isn't coming from the US.

[amanaplanacanal]

How would you even know that? We haven't seen the agreement yet.

[throwawaypath]

>We haven't seen the agreement yet.

Which why the $300 million claim is fake news.

[sejje]

My understanding was that the US green-lighted a 300-billion investment from neighboring countries to rebuild.

[burkaman]

Nobody outside the administration knows what the US has greenlit, and a detailed peace agreement likely doesn't exist yet.

[throwawaypath]

No, that was fake news. The 300 billion dollars isn't coming from the US.

[fhdkweig]

Specifically, it is unfreezing previously frozen/stolen assets that belong to Iran.

[Jtsummers]

That's only part of it, the US and allies are reportedly going to set up a $300 billion fund for Iran, the particular terms of accessing it aren't clear at this point. GP is correct in that the US is not putting up $300 billion, but it will be putting up part of that money. The US fought and lost a war and Iran comes out ahead, and the US and its allies come out worse and poorer.

[throwawaypath]

>The US fought and lost a war and Iran comes out ahead, and the US and its allies come out worse and poorer.

That is also fake news. The US did not lose the war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war

[Jtsummers]

> That is also fake news.

You keep using those words, but it's clear you don't know what they mean (or what anything means). Enjoy your trolling.

[filoeleven]

How many times have we won the war now? Seven? Eight?