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We're a few days shy of one month of the U.S. and Israel's war against Iran.

The war is projected to cost at least $30 billion by the end of this month.

That's at least $1 billion every day.

And that's only direct military costs.

Then there are the much more massive costs to the global economy.

And the cost in lives, at least 13 U.S. soldiers have been killed.

Thousands of people around the region have also been killed.

And there could be more than 6 million people who have been displaced.

Now, what exactly is all this for?

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