The only question here is who benefits from what Trump is doing. Someone somewhere is making a ton of money out of this crisis and it is clearly not anyone who isn't already a billionaire.
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Trop_4 hr ago
+24
Trump attacked Iran. Iran retaliated by closing Hormuz. Flow of oll stopped, prices go up.
Trump lift the sanctions regarding oil sales for Russia. It's a huge win for Putin.
Also billions of dollars are spent on the war. Every missile, worth millions, will be replaced, that's a win for the militaro-industrial complex.
And also Trump manipulates the market with Truth social posts alternating doom themed messages and fake optimistic messages.
Billions of stocks are traded. Easy to make money if you know when the UP or DOWN posts will drop.
So the inner circle of DJT benefits.
Meanwhile hundreds of Iranians are killed and the world risks a recession the extent of 2008
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lafeber3 hr ago
+1
Short term they are profiting immensely from insider trading. But I feel long term his inner circle (Saudis, oil industry execs) will lose everything as people are extremely fed up with fossil fuels and are quickly moving towards EVs / heat pumps.
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conairthehairdryer5 hr ago
+3
Saudi can still get oil out through Yanbu while all other ME oil states cannot. Then look at Kushner and MBS.
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macrolidesrule5 hr ago
+2
US oil producers are making bank, selling into Europe the moment.
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Overtwoandahalf3 hr ago
+1
Defense contractors a.k.a. general dynamics, Raytheon
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Electrical_Face_17373 hr ago
+1
Those that knew before the weekend and adjusted their stocks
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precipiceblades5 hr ago
+25
Hmmm it almost sounds similar to this: …Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to…
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sf-keto4 hr ago
+2
Dave Filoni, master predictive strategist?
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CupEcstatic27215 hr ago
+19
It looks like we are on the verge of a serious economic crisis
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Jerri_man5 hr ago
+10
Don't worry chum the markets aren't rational and they're being deliberately manipulated in broad daylight.
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sf-keto4 hr ago
+4
Did you ever doubt that the Orange Pedo’s intent was to destroy the West for his idol, Vlad?
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shionemi5 hr ago
+4
It has always been exciting to wake up every day to read the news and see what new things the POTUS is taking every single time. I'd lose all the time if I put a bet on my guesses.
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planetarybum5 hr ago
+5
Monday, huh? So there's time to TACO just before it happens?
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IAmTheDownbeat4 hr ago
+1
Taco Tuesday, friend.
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blackpawed3 hr ago
+1
TACO Tuesday incoming.
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WangNuts5 hr ago
+1
Maybe trump should rename this piece of water to the "Gay of Hormuz" and then Iran won't want it.
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0x476c6f7769655 hr ago
+5
Nah, their new leader Mojtaba will absolutely love for that to happen.
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NormalSociety4 hr ago
+1
Please don't. Many gay people have been instrumental to our civilization.
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rajrohit265 hr ago
-2
How will Iran survive now ? Blockade means their food supplies will stop too I guess .
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W313373 hr ago
+1
They will send out a Zerg of drones and sink a US navy vessel to make a point. War isn’t like it used to be, everyone watching Ukraine, knows….
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CryHavocAU3 hr ago
+1
Drones against a defenseless super tanker is one thing. But a modern military vessel with its complement of point defense weapons is not going to struggle with even a swarm of slow moving drones. They were originally designed to stop a swarm of fast moving Soviet anti ship missiles moving at much higher speeds.
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