re: It's all about the Strait of Hormuz and Iran selling oil

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Iran can accomplish most of their economic warfare with drones now.

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I don’t think that’s even close to true. They can accomplish some of it for a short while, but eventually we would use ground troops and force regime change - UNLESS they had nuclear weapons.

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we're in the process of facilitating the Saudi's access to nuclear material and will backdoor the science and engineering needs to make some of that material weapons-grade and affixed to a Saudi-made delivery system so the US can play the fool to the exercise

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I agree with this, and I think it’s partly because the Saudis are bribing the living shite out of the Trumps.

Iran wants that money to rearm.

The right move was leaving them in a box, but that box has been blown up so here we are with an escaped renegade state holding the global oil supply chain hostage because a gambler on a hot streak thought he couldn’t lose and ignored the potential consequences of what would happen if he did because the Israelis and the former senator from SC convinced him it would work.

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Iran wants that money to rearm.

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If you set it up as mutually beneficial investments with the Gulf Arabs and the Iranians working together, it could have worked. Since 2017, I believe there have been several rapprochement attempts between the Saudi's and Iranians, which mimicked earlier rapprochement efforts in the 90's and 2000's. The KSA will promise funding for some infrastructure effort in a third nation, tensions rise between the USA and the Iranians, and then after those subside, they do this again.

Iran will always spend a significant amount of money to rearm, but regional infrastructure where both parties share in the returns is the only real choice both parties have. Part of why Iran spends what it does on regional proxies is that, given its population and economy as well as its ideology, is that there will be an extremist segment that will arise regardless. Thus, part of its proxy efforts are to have places where eager men can go fight if they want. The same is true of the KSA, which is in many ways is just the Sunni Iran, a theocratic state (though that supposedly has been limited in its influence) where extremist tendencies will arise by virtue of the state's ideology with respect to religion. The KSA, even though they are much wealthier than Iran, exports a lot of young men to various foreign theaters and has done for as long as the Iranians have been in power. Both countries can unwind that, as those trends are post-1979, but it will take a generation. And it requires some kind of avenue which obviates the competition. Previous deals that Trump made in the ME followed that trend, of the promise of windfall returns if the parties worked together. And inviting the Iranians in has to be the best way of tying any potential monies to any deal.

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Just to be clear you believe all of these things: A) We should go to war if it helps the American consumer B) The war has helped the American consumer. C) Printing more money to do this doesn't hurt the American consumer.

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I believe A) sometimes; B) remains to be seen; and C) sometimes.