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title: "Published in 2018, so the numbers are higher now. "The United States…"
date: 2019-09-13
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# Published in 2018, so the numbers are higher now. "The United States…

*September 13, 2019 · Facebook*

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[https://www.newsweek.com/us-spent-six-trillion-wars-killed-half-million-1215588?fbclid=IwAR0RcAwfbCclb2nV0VTiH7YII3OHm_JWQddUtnf3YczhQblJZ3hdwBp9oxQ](https://www.newsweek.com/us-spent-six-trillion-wars-killed-half-million-1215588?fbclid=IwAR0RcAwfbCclb2nV0VTiH7YII3OHm_JWQddUtnf3YczhQblJZ3hdwBp9oxQ){target="_blank"}
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Published in 2018, so the numbers are higher now.\
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\"The United States has spent nearly \$6 trillion on wars that directly contributed to the deaths of around 500,000 people since the 9/11 attacks of 2001.\
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Overall, researchers estimated that \"between 480,000 and 507,000 people have been killed in the United States\' post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.\"\
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This toll \"does not include the more than 500,000 deaths from the war in Syria, raging since 2011\" when a West-backed rebel and jihadi uprising challenged the government, an ally of Russia and Iran. That same year, the U.S.-led NATO Western military alliance intervened in Libya and helped insurgents overthrow longtime leader Muammar el-Qaddafi, leaving the nation in an ongoing state of civil war.\"\
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[https://www.newsweek.com/us-spent-six-trillion-wars-killed-half-million-1215588](https://www.newsweek.com/us-spent-six-trillion-wars-killed-half-million-1215588){target="_blank"}
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