Some terrifying actual figures to remember:
More than 400,000 have died because of the Syrian conflict since 2011, according to the World Bank, with 5 million seeking refuge abroad and over 6 million displaced internally, according to UN agencies. By June 2017, the UN also estimated that 540,000 people were still living in besieged areas.
American-led intervention. According to SOHR, U.S.-led Coalition airstrikes have killed 12,596 people across Syria, of which: 8,487 dead were ISIL fighters, 309 Al-Nusra Front militants and other rebels, 169 government soldiers and 3,618 civilians.
More than 50,000 children in Yemen died from starvation during 2017.
460,000 deaths in Iraq as direct or indirect result of the war including more than 60% of deaths directly attributable to violence. Overview: Iraqi death estimates by source Summary of casualties of the Iraq War.
According to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report published in October 2007, the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost taxpayers a total of $2.4 trillion by 2017 when counting the huge interest costs because combat is being financed with borrowed money.
