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war might cost money?

no way

So retarded

Yeah, economic losses of two trillion dollars in three months, no big thang. Projected over a year would result in losses of roughly half the GDP of your country. And that is assuming everything goes according to plan... and doesn't account for the cost of actually waging the war, which will easily be in the hundreds of billions.

Go away, come back when you're ready to behave like an adult.

come back when you aren't grasping at every worst case scenario that fits your isolationist mindset.

and that's global economy. in a year the global economy will shrink over 10% because of iran? in a single year?


bullshit

refute what? a paper from unnamed scientists on what they think a war will cost? how does one refute conjecture with conjecture? because that's all that this is.


but i can say, with a high degree of certainty, that fighting iran will not destroy a tenth of the worlds economy. that's equivalent to china or the US going completely tits up all at once and not mitigating it at all. absurd.

Incorrect, that is based sheerly on a bombing campaign targeting Iranian military units who would attempt to close the Straits, and the destruction of their nuclear infrastructure. The cost of an occupation would be exponentially greater. The authors of the study said it isn't possible to model any numbers past three months, since there would be too many variables to remain accurate.

Also, your numbers are way off. US GDP is like 15-17 trillion... these losses are only from your economy, and don't account for global losses. So yes, a global economic meltdown is definitely feasible, considering its only been a little while since the largest financial collapse in history... which was triggered by bad mortgages, not even an actual threat to energy security, lol.

Murica! Murica! Murica!

There, you don't have to respond now, I've already made your argument for you.

Also, lol @ Americas capabilities. Yes, we have already discussed this. I realize the US is the best at killing bad guys. What matters is that doing so would have devastating effects on the global economy. Please review my argument:

The US could easily destroy Iran assuming the political, human and economic costs didn't matter. But they do, and the Iranian government will plan accordingly.

You are correct, it is global costs.

Now, do you have any actual evidence suggesting this report is inaccurate? Is there a methodology problem? Is the nonpartisan Federation of American Scientists secretly an Iranian propaganda group? Why was this reported on almost every major news outlet on the internet, since it is so unbelievable because you said so?

Or are you just going to go "NO! Nuh uh! Impossible! Murica! Murica! Murica!"

Run along. Leave the debates to adults capable of addressing facts and sources, rather than crying because you're bad at foreign policy and can't form an argument for the life of you.