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by pesus 4 days ago
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).

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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".
No, that was fake news. The 300 billion dollars isn't coming from the US.
How would you even know that? We haven't seen the agreement yet.
>We haven't seen the agreement yet.

Which why the $300 million claim is fake news.

That 300 billion number came from JD Vance. Do you think he lied, or what?
>That 300 billion number came from JD Vance.

No it didn't, that is fake news. Please provide an unbiased source where JD Vance claims the US will be paying Iran $300 billion.

He also said trump is America's Hitler, but that turned out to be true. But would argue is America's Hitler and Jimmy saville.
My understanding was that the US green-lighted a 300-billion investment from neighboring countries to rebuild.
Nobody outside the administration knows what the US has greenlit, and a detailed peace agreement likely doesn't exist yet.