Maybe, only because this market likes to pump on meaningless TV victories. If US “takes” Kharg island what are they gonna do with it? Best they can do is prevent Iran from using it, but in the meantime the troops and any re-supply vehicles would be sitting ducks for drones. Also in the meantime Iran is gonna hit more gulf oil infrastructure in retaliation.

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Sending more troops to Iran you say? Surely this won’t appease the Gulf countries thinking about entering the war!

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the price of his excursion to the gulf has been named - 1 Trill in reparations. and it's a good price, not much

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Gulf of Baba Ghanoush

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Before: 1. Gulf monarchs sell oil in exchange for US dollars 2. Gulf monarchs invest dollars in private credit firms 3. Private credit firms build AI datacenters 4. American tech stocks go up Now: 1. Gulf monarchs can't sell oil 2. Gulf monarchs cash out investments in private credit firms I wonder what happens next?

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WTF - Pentagon to Deploy 3,000 82nd Airborne Soldiers to Gulf

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This conflict taught me two thing: * Qatari king has three wives * all the Gulf state sovereign wealth funds are probably as regarded as, arguably more regarded than, the 80% ASTS 20% RKLB ports you see in low effort "rate my portfolio" reddit posts

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Gulf states said they may attack

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Weather predictions are looking spicy for the gulf, 5000 CAPE in some areas. This resembles a midwestern tornado season like setting…

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"Gulf States weigh military options to counter Iran's escalation."

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