The national debt surpassed a record $39 trillion on Wednesday, a milestone that comes just weeks into the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran.
The unprecedented figure highlights competing administration priorities, from passing a massive tax law and boosting defense spending and immigration enforcement to chipping away at the debt itself — the latter of which Donald Trump promised to do as both a candidate and as president.
Btw the US spend 6.8 trillion (!) dollars from 1976 to 2007 protecting Hormuz, mostly from Iran.
12 billions in the current war, which means that in comparison to the time period between 1976 and 2007, the US is spending around the same amount per day.
I also found mentions of the cost of protection between 2007 and 2010 to be 1,2 trillion dollars, but no sources.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301421510000194