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Home / Yemen / The $7 billion we wasted bombing a country we couldn’t find on a map
Yemen, Middle East

May 17, 2025

The $7 billion we wasted bombing a country we couldn’t find on a map

Defense Priorities, a Washington think tank, plausibly estimates that between Biden and Trump, the United States wasted more than $7 billion on bombing Yemen over a little more than two years. Most of that appears to have been spent on Biden’s watch.

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