“The hole in the budget”: it Became known how much the US spent on the “war on terrorism” : In the World : Vladim

News 8 January, 2018

It became known that the counter-terrorism forces the United States spent more than 5.6 trillion dollars for the implementation of the “war on terrorism”. In December 2017, the country’s President, Donald trump has announced on his Twitter that the middle East Washington’s “silly spent 7 trillion dollars.”

 

Newspaper the Nation cited the data of experts from brown University, showing that the taxpayers of the United States of America paid a “war on terror” initiated by the counter-terrorism government forces. The total cost of the actions aimed at combating terrorism, may be higher than 5.6 trillion dollars.

Evidence that the amount of expenses can actually exceed the aforesaid threshold, confirms the publication on the social network Twitter the head of state, Donald trump’s post in which he said about the senseless waste of seven trillion dollars to the middle East.

Also, according to the map provided by the “war on terrorism”, the military presence of representatives of the United States noted in 76 countries.