Of course they’d urge the continuation of the war, they have access to the Red Sea, and while not convenient, can get around the Hormuz lockdown. To them, aside from the acceptable sacrifice of their population a little, the war is beneficial. Oil prices are up, they’re sitting on oil, what’s not to like?
You can make an argument everything is economics, but I don’t think Trump got into this war for economic reasons (other actors may have, but not Trump)
Trump’s a useful idiot with motivations like “being near gold”, “not shitting himself”, and “getting away with fucking kids”. I guarantee the guys at raytheon, palantir, haliburton et al ran the numbers before they let him start dropping bombs
Of course they’d urge the continuation of the war, they have access to the Red Sea, and while not convenient, can get around the Hormuz lockdown. To them, aside from the acceptable sacrifice of their population a little, the war is beneficial. Oil prices are up, they’re sitting on oil, what’s not to like?
Assuming human civilization lasts this long, in a hundred years they’re going to call this period the Resource Wars.
A lot of wars are over resources. The Gulf War and Iraq War were fairly recent wars that were also specifically over oil on the middle east.
“All war is economic”
You can make an argument everything is economics, but I don’t think Trump got into this war for economic reasons (other actors may have, but not Trump)
Trump’s a useful idiot with motivations like “being near gold”, “not shitting himself”, and “getting away with fucking kids”. I guarantee the guys at raytheon, palantir, haliburton et al ran the numbers before they let him start dropping bombs
The scary thing is, it hasn’t even really started yet.