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mothballedlast Tuesday at 3:53 PM2 repliesview on HN

You don't even need to trade oil, trading gulf country assets also works well. And rebuilding the gulf should be quite profitable if Iran blows it up and the assets will be available cheap.


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vkoulast Tuesday at 10:48 PM

Iran can't blow the gulf up in any meaningful sense, even if the war continues for a long time.

It can blow up a few high ROI targets, but that ROI isn't from the cost of rebuilding - it's from the opportunity cost of not having them.

themafialast Tuesday at 8:09 PM

> And rebuilding the gulf should be quite profitable

Wait. I've heard this story before. Let's ask any of the recently "liberated" countries how that worked out for them...

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