The United States is spending roughly $2 billion per day on its military campaign against Iran — funds that the UN's top humanitarian official says could have financed saving 87 million lives. Tom Fletcher, head of the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told an audience at Chatham House in London on Monday that his entire emergency funding target of $23 billion — enough to sustain a prioritised global lifesaving plan — could have been met in under two weeks of the conflict. Fletcher also warned that the war's economic shockwaves, including food and fuel inflation approaching 20%, could drive millions more people into poverty across sub-Saharan and East Africa for years to come.