Donald Trump
“Let me just say we won. You know, you never want to talk about winning too soon. We won. We won, it was already over in the first hour, but we won,” CNN quoted the American president as saying.
The publication notes that Trump’s statements about how long the war with Iran will last have been contradictory: sometimes he said that the war was well ahead of schedule, that it would last four to six weeks, that we “have already won … but not enough,” and that the strikes were “both a war and a short excursion.”
In his Kentucky speech, the American president also explained how he came up with the name of Operation Epic Fury.
“They gave me, like, 20 names… I didn’t like any of them. Then I saw ‘Epic Fury.’ I said: “I like that title.”
U.S. Defense Department officials have estimated that the first six days of combat operations against Iran cost the states $11.3 billion.
This was reported by Pentagon representatives during a closed briefing in Congress, writes The Hill.
At the same time, this amount does not include a significant part of the costs associated with the preparation of the operation, in particular, the deployment of military equipment and personnel before the first strikes.
