🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 Winners of the Iran War:

1. Eric & Don Jr.'s drone company investments
2. Jared Kushner's plans to reconstruct the Gulf
3. Witkoffs' Middle East real estate deals

The corruption here runs deep and goes in a circle.

President Trump was recently asked when he thinks our war with Iran will be over. “When I feel it in my bones,” he replied. Translation: There’s no end in sight.

There are many angles from which we can investigate this war. Last week we discussed America’s long history of regime change. (TLDR: very unsuccessful.) We also discussed the price of oil, and the impacts it will have on U.S. inflation. (Hint: bad.) But there’s one angle we’ve yet to fully examine, which might help us understand how we got ourselves into this mess, and why it will likely continue.

That angle is the following: Who’s getting rich off of this war?

First, a quick financial audit. Based on what the Pentagon has told us, it’s estimated we’ve spent nearly $22 billion on Operation Epic Fury so far. To put that in perspective, that’s enough money to cover Medicaid for 2.7 million Americans, or feed 2.4 million families for a year, or cover a year of tuition for 1.8 million students. Keep in mind, we’re only 18 days in. Consider what the Iran bill might look like in six months, or even six years.

Then there’s the people who’ll make money. These individuals are slightly trickier to identify, as the downstream impacts are (purposely) opaque. There are the defense companies who, as we discussed this morning with Liz Hoffman, are set to net $200 billion in nationally-syndicated investment from Trump over the next three years. There are also the investment bankers whom Trump has assembled to underwrite these deals. But there are plenty of others, many of whom were in the rooms where the decision to go to war was made.

🔗 https://www.profgmedia.com/p/follow-the-money

🇨🇳📈 China already scored a massive win as a result of the U.S. starting the 3rd Gulf War

Countries dependent on Middle Eastern oil for road transportation will begin replacing oil guzzling cars with cheap Chinese EVs. Its a trend and the war will only accelerate this trend and ensure the mass adoption of electric vehicles in much of East and Southeast Asia.

🔗 Joe Weisenthal