https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/us/politics/iran-oil-sanctions.html
Uh, did I miss something? Wasn't attacking Iran supposed to weaken their economy? Weren't sanctions supposed to do the same?
And didn't we embargo Venezuela for the same reason?
And Russia?
WTF? We could have had all these countries shipping oil without killing/kidnapping leaders from other nations and spending several billion dollars attacking Iran.
TACO Trump rises again. THIS is why Iran is resisting US military action. They KNOW that Trump doesn't have the temperament to stick with something very long.
Too bad that the USC doesn't allow idiocy to be grounds for impeachment.
If one were to take a global view of all this, it would be reasonable to assume that this all has to do with manipulating the price of oil, and perhaps imparting some predictable volatility to the DOW/S&P. I would really like to know what kind of stock trades have been made recently and who might have benefited by knowing what was going to happen. II would not be surprised if more than a few people benefitted greatly.