{"id":59072,"date":"2026-05-01T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=59072"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:04:24","slug":"ron-paul-on-the-costs-of-trumps-war-how-long-until-theyre-unbearable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/01\/ron-paul-on-the-costs-of-trumps-war-how-long-until-theyre-unbearable\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul on The Costs of Trump&#8217;s War: How Long Until They&#8217;re Unbearable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RonPaulLibertyReport\">Ron Paul Liberty Report<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>President Trump started a war that he was voted to avoid, and that the American people do not support. The quagmire drags on, and continues to impose tremendous costs, not only on the American people, but the rest of the world as well. President Trump&#8217;s repeated claims that he won the war don&#8217;t bring down those costs. They keep rising. How long until the costs become unbearable?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cKbpH8DcOoo?si=cWiS028Hp_3g5QH8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s Ron Paul Liberty Report: President Trump started a war that he was voted to avoid, and that the American people do not support. The quagmire drags on, and continues to impose tremendous costs, not only on the American people, but the rest of the world as well. President Trump&#8217;s repeated claims that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[768,1394],"class_list":["post-59072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59077,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59072\/revisions\/59077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59072"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=59072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}