They're doing great if you're on the beneficiary side: oil companies, defense contractors, the Trump family, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, etc.

All that is at the expense of the rest of the economy. The sectors that are hit the hardest tend to be, with the exception of those above, the ones who voted (disproportionately) for these people.

... which is what you get with a narcissist. The people hurt the most by a narcissist tend to be those closest or those that support them.

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vkou an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I'm pretty sure that Qatar and the Saudis are not exactly pleased with having their stuff blown up.

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bix6 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

True but I’ve heard they are in support of Iran getting decimated so they can fill the power vacuum.

	▲	api 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		So many Americans don't understand that these two "branches" of the Muslim world are at odds as much if not more than Israel and the Muslim world. That whole region is a mess of deep long-standing divisions.

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petre an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Qatar is pretty much screwed as they can't get the gas out of the Gulf. The Saudis will have to eventually do something about Yemen, because Bab Al-Mandab tanker traffic is also under threat and Asia id paying good money for fossil fuels right now.

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tokai an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

>defense contractors They are happy about missing out on the largest rearmament or Europe since the ww2?