The full extent of the human and environmental costs of the latest illegal imperial war launched by the United States and the racist colonial settler state of Israel will be difficult to determine.

The official death count as at March 16 was 2371. The numbers injured were more than 10 times higher and, according to the United Nations refugee agency, up to 3.2 million have already been displaced.

The casualties of the rapidly growing global economic fall-out are not included in these figures.

As in the Gaza genocide, the casualties and destruction are disproportionately suffered by the countries being attacked by two of the most powerful military powers in the world.

Civilians, including hundreds of children in Iran and Lebanon, are being killed by the most high-tech and expensive weapons in the world.

The US has spent more than US$16.5 billion on munitions — US$11.3 billion in just the first six days alone.

The “plan” was to “go big go fast” and the war was accordingly named Operation Epic Fury. But as it drags into its third week and spreads into more countries, it is being mocked as “Operation Epic Failure”.

The Donald Trump administration is asking the US Congress approve US$50 billion in........

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