Could be a good way to boost the economy amidst a trade war while simultaneously doubling-down on protectionism. On the one hand we usually profit from wars, on the other hand we lose trading partners when we do our usual human rights violations shtick.

I predict this is a ploy to try to get us into a war, so Trump can have his third term, rejecting calls to step down "because we're at war". It's a little early, but our kids are already used to being in 20-year-long pointless wars in the Middle East.

> we usually profit from wars

That's a huge lie, if 'we' is to be read as 'Americans' and not 'the 1%'.

78% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck [0].

'We' - taxpayers - 'spent' trillions and trillions of dollars on war in the middle east. What was the return on investment? We could have housed every American, eliminated student debt, gone 100% clean energy, and ended world hunger; with change left over.

0 - https://www.forbes.com/advisor/banking/living-paycheck-to-pa...

I think the contrary. Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which more than a quarter of the world's oil gets shipped. The world price of oil is then expected to go up, and the US economy is very oil-dependent.

Other oil producers would profit from this, ... including Russia's state-run oil company, which would help them fund their war in Ukraine.

On the contrary, nobody wants a nuclear armed Iran. It's been an open not-even-secret for decades that America is very active, on many fronts, in trying to delay or remove Iran's growing capability to create nuclear weapons.