The U.S. administration vowed that Iran would "pay a big price." Yet the first measurable price has been paid by Washington: the Pentagon reports that U.S. military spending on the war has already reached 25 billion U.S. dollars.
It is American taxpayers who are footing the bill. Beyond the official ledger, the fallout is harder to count but easier to feel in daily life: higher fuel prices, rising transport costs and more expensive groceries.
War economics has its own logic: missiles are launched abroad, but the bill comes home.
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