Trump’s Choice To Attack Iran Creating Worldwide Chaos Just Days In
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From tanking stocks to spiking oil prices to tens of thousands of Americans stranded overseas with no easy way home, the president has unleashed a global mess.
WASHINGTON — When Donald Trump posted a brief video early Saturday about the war he had just started with Iran, he neglected to mention the predictable consequences.
Like a plunging stock market. Or spiking oil prices worldwide and gasoline prices at home. Or tens of thousands of American citizens stranded in the Middle East. Or Iran striking out at its neighbors and whipping up a metastasizing regional war.
Not four days later, all of these have come to pass, which is likely to make Trump’s massive attack on Iran at the behest of Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu even less popular among Americans than it already is.
“It’s not clear to me what Trump’s main objective is, or how long it will last before something else takes its place,” said John Bolton, one of Trump’s national security advisers in his first term and a decades-long proponent of taking a hard line against Iran. “There’s a compelling case for regime change in Iran, but he hasn’t made it yet.”
The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Tuesday closed 1,000 points lower than it was Friday afternoon, hours before Trump’s attack began. Oil prices are up 13% since Friday, and gasoline prices jumped 11 cents overnight and now average $3.11 nationally.
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That looks painful!