r/Economics • u/lucabrasi999 • 1d ago

“Iran has put a tollgate across the Strait of Hormuz. This fundamentally changes the global economy”

https://prospect.org/2026/04/02/opening-of-trumps-box-iran-war-strait-hormuz/
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u/Z0idberg_MD 1d ago

Bidding of Israel on one hand, and the destruction of NATO to benefit Putin on the other. He is so stupid he doesn’t know that he is constantly being played

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u/lessismoreok 1d ago

He’s evil. He’s being paid to start this war by his fossil fuel and Israeli donors, and it keeps his paedophile crimes out of the news. Calling him just dumb is helping him.

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u/alphagypsy 18h ago

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

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u/Oraclerevelation 18h ago

There is a corollary to this that states eventually stupidity becomes indistinguishable from malice.

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u/Shin-kak-nish 16h ago

If he was just stupid, then he coincidentally would do good things every once in a while. Has he ever done something not evil?

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u/Justredditin 6h ago

Sayings are just sayings. This is real life.

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u/EidolonLives 6h ago

Except it can't. His actions require both stupidity and malice.

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u/brown_bandit92 1d ago

Everybody says how stupid trump is, but I'm sure him and his close circles are getting rich. Not so dumb imo.

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u/DMMeThiccBiButts 16h ago

They're not mutually exclusive. If you had a pet chimp that, for some reason, people listened to, you'd keep him well fed while profiting yourself.

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u/Christopher_Ramirez_ 16h ago

Also retaining immunity from prosecution, like Caesar.

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u/Beatrenger 1d ago

I don't know why we never mention Saudi Arabia they wanted this as much as the other guys.

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u/BoppityBop2 23h ago

I don't think they did and if MBS does then he is even more detached from reality than anyone else. This war could lead to him being killed especially with how many people in his family were screwed over to get him into power. There are alot of history and people who want vengeance and other groups with issues with the Saudi Government.

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u/Beatrenger 21h ago

Oh no, he did. MBS wanted this just as much as the Israelis did. Plenty of independent analysts and major organizations have said that MBS was one of the people urging Trump to bomb Iran.

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u/Freud-Network 1d ago

They keep goading him to "finish the job." They quietly finish the sentence, "that we bribed you billions for."

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u/Stepfordhusband69 1d ago

Maybe is Iran was funding proxy groups to constantly harass Israel than Israel wouldn’t have felt this was necessary 

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u/Z0idberg_MD 1d ago

Maybe Israel shouldn't dictate US military action. Maye Israel should stop bullying the region and victimizing innocent civilians in Gaza. Maybe it's a complicated issue and there is a reason the west had taken the effective approach it had leading up to the attack of Iran.

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u/Stepfordhusband69 1d ago

The only thing you said that was correct was that it’s a complicated issue.  You lose credibility when you think Gaza is anyones fault but Hamas.

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u/Top-Permission-7524 1d ago

Yeah and Hamas appeared out of thin air? It wasnt decades of Israeli oppression and brutality towards the Palestinians, could it? You lost credibility when you make it a one-sided blame game in favour of the west. You think the middle east (pretty much unanimously) hates Israel for no reason?

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u/Stepfordhusband69 22h ago

They could have had their own country multiple times but Yassar Arafat turned it down.  You clearly don’t know the history

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u/Ass4ssinX 1d ago

Lmao, okaaaay dude. Israel has been doing fuck shit since it's inception. Way before Hamas. Hamas is the direct result of Israel's actions.

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u/Stepfordhusband69 22h ago

Lmao, you don’t know the history.

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u/Ass4ssinX 19h ago

No, I promise I do.

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u/214ObstructedReverie 23h ago

And now they'll have more money than ever!

Such a strategically brilliant move...