I don't think it's idiocy. It's self interest of his and his cronies.

Unless that self-interest involves "wanting to watch the world burn" as we trigger an almost fully unprecedented oil and commodity crisis that tanks the economy way worse than 2008 ever was, I'd say Hanlon's razor fully applies here.

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srean 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Watch their personal portfolios. Of course not an easy thing to do.

If this will stop, it will do so because of the threat to Kushner's investments in the ME.

To use a slight inaccurate historical cliche -- do you think Nero gave two hoots about whether Rome burned or not.

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red-iron-pine 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

when you already have all of the money you can buy up the market once the crash happens.

that's the goal of Project 2025. Put billionaires in power by owning everything.

	▲	Schmerika 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's exactly what it is; and it's worse than negligence for the Atlantic to pretend not to understand this. The phenomenon of the Epstein class explicitly calling wars and coups and crashes "full of opportunity" gets virtually zero analysis in Epstein-class owned media, and it's past time that people connect those two dots. Did I sign in to the Atlantic to confirm that they pretended not to understand this? No. But I would be shocked to be wrong.