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Jiang says Trump is desperate because oil shocks could devastate the global economy and turn opinion against him, while hawkish advisers encourage a quick-strike fantasy.
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Oil price
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Well, I mean, the reality is that America right now is in a quagmire in Iran. America doesn't really have good military options. Right...."
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He argues that attacking Iran's economic lifeline would incentivize Iran to strike GCC oil infrastructure and push oil toward $200, creating a long attrition war.
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Simon says lowering the oil price is strategically useful because it combats inflation while bankrupting higher-cost Western producers and concentrating control in transnational capital and cheap Gulf producers.
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"Well, I mean, the reality is that America right now is in a quagmire in Iran. America doesn't really have good military options. Right...."
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"They've been lying to him all this time. And so they will encourage him and make him believe that a quick strike will resolve..."
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"of the gcc right because no matter how much economic damage you can do to iran they can do so much more to the..."
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"They'll fund it. The Gulf countries will fund it. China infrastructure. China is being used as the military might to go get the resources...."
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