You don’t know. It’d be brilliant from Trump’s perspective and I think he and MbS work a lot closer than is let on. We sell Saudi’s cheap weapons, from what I’ve read they started the price war (at Trump’s direction is the speculation) and sell us cheap oil, Russia and Iran get simul-fucked, US and Saudi’s both profit.
The hole I see in this theory of being intentional is that Trump would know that an oil slash coupled with a correction level stock market would further crash the market and send pre-recession signals.
As good as he is, you can’t be 100% sure of macroeconomic and crowd psychology once an event kicks off.
I think Russia made their move independently (or with China and the democrats) to further stress the system and crash Trump’s economy.
Saudi Arabia knew that their next best move was to match Russia and let Trump know about it.
Trump, the apex business predator that he is, saw the opportunity to do all the things mentioned in that article as opportunity outcomes.
I like your theory tbh. But, I’ve noticed Trump does things he know will hurt them market under the cover of an already hurting market. Just look at 4Q18.
You don’t know. It’d be brilliant from Trump’s perspective and I think he and MbS work a lot closer than is let on. We sell Saudi’s cheap weapons, from what I’ve read they started the price war (at Trump’s direction is the speculation) and sell us cheap oil, Russia and Iran get simul-fucked, US and Saudi’s both profit.
The hole I see in this theory of being intentional is that Trump would know that an oil slash coupled with a correction level stock market would further crash the market and send pre-recession signals.
As good as he is, you can’t be 100% sure of macroeconomic and crowd psychology once an event kicks off.
I think Russia made their move independently (or with China and the democrats) to further stress the system and crash Trump’s economy.
Saudi Arabia knew that their next best move was to match Russia and let Trump know about it.
Trump, the apex business predator that he is, saw the opportunity to do all the things mentioned in that article as opportunity outcomes.
I like your theory tbh. But, I’ve noticed Trump does things he know will hurt them market under the cover of an already hurting market. Just look at 4Q18.