Americans are not informed about the huge cost of the Donald Trump Iran War but check out European news

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The Guardian: Generally speaking, when you bomb another country, and that country retaliates, you call it a “war”. Very simple word. Three letters. Even Donald Trump knows how to spell it.

Cost of Donald Trump's Iran War

Echo opinion letter published in The CapTimes news in Wisconsin

Dear Editor: The lies and obfuscation about the true cost of the Iran War by Donald Trump and his minions evoke shades of the Vietnam era.

In a well-documented report in Popular Information by Stephen Semler on May 6, 2026, the actual cost of the first 60 days of the current war with Iran is about 💲72 billion, not the 💲25 billion cited by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, or about 💲1.2 billion per day.

Furthermore, a group of reporters for the Washington Post, Evan Hill, Jarrett Ley, Alex Horton, Tara Copp and Dan Lamothe, have noted that it's "unusually difficult" to obtain satellite imagery from the Middle East, because the U.S. government has asked two of the largest commercial providers of such images, Ventor and Planet, "to limit, delay or ultimately withhold publication of images of the region while the war is ongoing." 

Since the companies have acceded, the journalists have had to review other sources of images, including the European Union and Iran's state affiliated media (as cited by Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from an American, May 6, 2026).

Although some hypocritical Republican members of our U.S. Congress may not be concerned about being complicit with the Trump administration's deceptions, the American public deserves to know the truth. Then the electorate can hold Congress accountable in the November 2026, midterm elections.

From Stephen Austin in Madison Wisconsin