Pope Leo has responded to Trump's latest attack on him.
Quote:The Pope has hit out at leaders who spend billions on wars and said the world was "being ravaged by a handful of tyrants".
The pontiff made the unusually forceful remarks in Cameroon after Donald Trump attacked him on social media.
Leo, who is the first US pope, also criticised leaders who used religious language to justify wars and urged a "decisive change of course".
He said: "The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet often a lifetime is not enough to rebuild.
"They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration are nowhere to be found."
The pope and Trump were involved in a spat after the US president said he "should get his act together" and was "very weak".
In his latest remarks today, the pontiff did not name any particular leader.
https://news.sky.com/story/iran-war-late...n-13509565
Quote:Last month, the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimated that the war in Iran had cost the U.S. Treasury $12.7 billion over the first 12 days of the war.1 If we project that daily cost forward to April 1, we get a total estimate of about $35 billion of more than $210 per IRS tax return or ~$260 per household.
https://www.aei.org/articles/the-economi...-iran-war/