Was Trump’s Sudden U-Turn on Attacking Iran’s Power Plants a Market Strategy?

[dansus021]

Well, the president of course had a team to calculate all of this but just be honest I think they miscalculated this one. One thing for sure, someone on government, especially US had planned this and gained millions or billions of profit from this conflict. I hear the news that there is a spike in volume on oil before the war happens, this is definitely an Insider Job.

Trump itself is the most influential president that I know; everything that he said of course move the market but he just occasionally tweets about it.

[Haunebu]

Maybe. Maybe not. Dude is a businessman more than a proper president at the end of the day which is why this is a good theory for sure, but I do not think he is as smart at manipulating the markets as y'all are making him out to be since he has plenty of resources at hand.

Orange clown never expected Iran to put up such a good fight. Really hope they don't send in ground forces since that would cause humongous casualties on both sides meaninglessly.

[philipma1957]

Maybe. Maybe not. Dude is a businessman more than a proper president at the end of the day which is why this is a good theory for sure, but I do not think he is as smart at manipulating the markets as y'all are making him out to be since he has plenty of resources at hand.

Orange clown never expected Iran to put up such a good fight. Really hope they don't send in ground forces since that would cause humongous casualties on both sides meaninglessly.

Trump has Europe where he wants them.

He now has shown he can manipulate Iran into shutting down the straight of Hormuz and he can open it by backing off.

He will punish Europe and  Iran will be the fall guy.

Eventually Europe will relent and allow him to grab Greenland.

All while he and Putin continue to melt all the ice.

Iran is pretty much fucked hard and Trump simply wants to use them as a tool.

He does not give a fuck about people dying.


The best shot for the world is he dies from old age soon.

[PocketAurora]

Maybe… but markets move on uncertainty vs relief, not just one person.

Tension builds → markets drop
Tension eases → markets bounce

That pattern isn’t new, just very visible here.

[Cryptomultiplier]

Maybe. Maybe not. Dude is a businessman more than a proper president at the end of the day which is why this is a good theory for sure, but I do not think he is as smart at manipulating the markets as y'all are making him out to be since he has plenty of resources at hand.

Orange clown never expected Iran to put up such a good fight. Really hope they don't send in ground forces since that would cause humongous casualties on both sides meaninglessly.

Trump has Europe where he wants them.

He now has shown he can manipulate Iran into shutting down the straight of Hormuz and he can open it by backing off.

He will punish Europe and  Iran will be the fall guy.

Eventually Europe will relent and allow him to grab Greenland.

All while he and Putin continue to melt all the ice.

Iran is pretty much fucked hard and Trump simply wants to use them as a tool.

He does not give a fuck about people dying.


The best shot for the world is he dies from old age soon.

It's not a secret how Trump is a strategist mostly when it comes to power moves that involves money and politics in the way.
While Trump is trying to gain hold of Iran and make the dollar strong, Iran is fighting for de-dollarization and this clearly means Trump would find a way to change the political atmosphere to suit the dollar and his agenda.

The White House so far has called this a peace through strength campaign, but underneath lies the fact that the major concern is how the economy of the world, the U.S, Iran and the rest of the world becomes, when the war is over or before it thinks of ever ending.
Any time the S&P 500 enters a correction phase, we hear of threats becoming stronger and major bombing attacks.
It's just business at the end of the day at the cost of human lives.

[Accardo]

'All my life I have been making deals' Trump's favorite quote whenever he's on the affairs of Iran crisis, he's into the business of deal making and would do anything possible to come out fine after any deal. That's why he's equipped himself with Marco Rubio to be his secretary of state, to me, he's a smart person that speaks like he's always stating facts, so, it's fine to say that he's also using the war to manipulate market shifts and aswell make more from Tarrifs. America actually needed a business man for that seat, they would never know what their life would have been holding a business man for the Presidency.

[Fortify]

Somehow I feel like Donald Trump’s sudden U-turn on attacking Iran’s power plants wasn’t just random. It looked very calculated, especially considering how the market reacted after Iran released a list of potential targets, including key power plants in the nearby Gulf countries. The tension alone was already shaking confidence and Trump knows very well that the little leverage and influence he still holds is strongly tied to market reactions. A single statement from him can move markets either up or down. What caught my attention is the timing. He made that U-turn right before the market opened on Monday and as expected, the market responded positively. That doesn’t look like coincidence to me.

At this point, it feels like a pattern to create tension, let uncertainty build, then pull back to stabilize things. And honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if before the market closes on Friday, we hear another strong statement or threat that shakes things again. That man really knows how to play the game when it comes to influence and market psychology.

It was calculated in the same way that blowing your foot off is a calculated way to have a visit to the hospital. Nobody but an absolute moron would do it, because everyone except for him and his flock of follower sheep could see the inevitable consequences. Now we are in a situation where Iran will not accept defeat nor will it capitulate to ever increasingly ridiculous demands of America. In fact we see now that they are throwing their own stupid demands out there as a countermeasure - like charging every ship that wishes to pass through the Strait a $2 million fee. It's so dumb that Trump actually had to allow ships laden with Iranian oil into the market, effectively helping their enemy fund a war because this whole approach was miscalculated so badly. America is Israel's puppet right now and Trump is the clown of the show.

[Cookdata]

Well, the president of course had a team to calculate all of this but just be honest I think they miscalculated this one. One thing for sure, someone on government, especially US had planned this and gained millions or billions of profit from this conflict. I hear the news that there is a spike in volume on oil before the war happens, this is definitely an Insider Job.

Trump itself is the most influential president that I know; everything that he said of course move the market but he just occasionally tweets about it.

The idea was, enter Iran, restore the leadership to another group, make him them sign a deal to do as the US said and that's it but the calculation wasn't bad, it was a horrible one to start with that's why he has been a double mouth person with different comments. I saw his interview with the pressed that his next country he is after is CUBA and said he actually want take Iran Oil. I was silent for one moment, the US is turning from US president to Earth president.

Whatever he is doing and plan to do in middle east, I hope he knows that if this get escalated, it wouldn't be funny. The US citizens are protesting, the Isreal are sending bombs and Iran are subsequently doing the same thing, strait of Hormuz closed, innocent citizens are suffering and there is global economic crisis. He can do all he want but he isn't going to have this war the way he pictured, it's not looking good anymore.

[el kaka22]

Iran will not be out of ammo anytime soon, they have lived the past fifty years for an attack that may happen like this, from very old decade long bad missiles, to brand new amazing new ones, they have thousands and thousands of them, and I mean literally kilometres long of silo. It means that unless you prevent them somehow from firing it by actually destroying their control, they are going to keep attacking.

So either USA figures out a way to fix this, or they are going to have some trouble. I would say stopping would make sense right about now, and they can save face, say that they killed the regime leader, and they could say that it's over now that they got all they wanted, otherwise this will not end anytime soon at all.

[Wind_FURY]

Iran will not be out of ammo anytime soon, they have lived the past fifty years for an attack that may happen like this, from very old decade long bad missiles, to brand new amazing new ones, they have thousands and thousands of them, and I mean literally kilometres long of silo. It means that unless you prevent them somehow from firing it by actually destroying their control, they are going to keep attacking.

So either USA figures out a way to fix this, or they are going to have some trouble. I would say stopping would make sense right about now, and they can save face, say that they killed the regime leader, and they could say that it's over now that they got all they wanted, otherwise this will not end anytime soon at all.

China is probably supplying them with NEW sorts of weapons systems too, no? All remaining Crude Oil exports from Iran are going to China, which China needs, in exchange for more weapons.

It's laughable what Trump did,

- Iran didn't entirely control the Strait of Hormuz, now they entirely do
- Iran had sanctioned Oil, now it's unsanctioned
- Inflation was declining, now it's surging

  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[davis196]

Somehow I feel like Donald Trump’s sudden U-turn on attacking Iran’s power plants wasn’t just random. It looked very calculated, especially considering how the market reacted after Iran released a list of potential targets, including key power plants in the nearby Gulf countries. The tension alone was already shaking confidence and Trump knows very well that the little leverage and influence he still holds is strongly tied to market reactions. A single statement from him can move markets either up or down. What caught my attention is the timing. He made that U-turn right before the market opened on Monday and as expected, the market responded positively. That doesn’t look like coincidence to me.

At this point, it feels like a pattern to create tension, let uncertainty build, then pull back to stabilize things. And honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if before the market closes on Friday, we hear another strong statement or threat that shakes things again. That man really knows how to play the game when it comes to influence and market psychology.

Yes, obviously Trump is trying to calm down the markets by making certain statements and delaying the missile strikes over Iranian power plants. But that doesn't solve the problem. For how long the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed? How long will this war continue? What happens if the USA starts a land based operation? Having high oil prices will have a devastating effect over the global economy. It's not just the oil and gas prices. Helium, which is being exported by Persian Gulf countries is really important for microchip production. Trump cannot to calm down the markets by making statements, because the markets have less and less trust in what Trump has to say.

[viljy]

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Yes, obviously Trump is trying to calm down the markets by making certain statements and delaying the missile strikes over Iranian power plants. But that doesn't solve the problem. For how long the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed? How long will this war continue? What happens if the USA starts a land based operation? Having high oil prices will have a devastating effect over the global economy. It's not just the oil and gas prices. Helium, which is being exported by Persian Gulf countries is really important for microchip production. Trump cannot to calm down the markets by making statements, because the markets have less and less trust in what Trump has to say.

We should also not forget that fertilizers are made from gas, and all modern agriculture is based on the use of fertilizers. Now spring is the sowing season, when fertilizers need to be applied to the soil. And it doesn't tolerate any delays. If there are no fertilizers, then there will be no harvest, which means a shortage of food in the fall. So the problem with gas supplies is no less than with oil supplies. People can live without helium and microchips, but not without bread.

[bakasabo]

Yes, obviously Trump is trying to calm down the markets by making certain statements and delaying the missile strikes over Iranian power plants. But that doesn't solve the problem. For how long the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed? How long will this war continue? What happens if the USA starts a land based operation? Having high oil prices will have a devastating effect over the global economy. It's not just the oil and gas prices. Helium, which is being exported by Persian Gulf countries is really important for microchip production. Trump cannot to calm down the markets by making statements, because the markets have less and less trust in what Trump has to say.

I will try guess carefully and say Trump has lost interest to Iran. He has been dealing with Iran for month already. For me Trump looks like a person who is running with fire. He is running from one thing to another. From Iran to Israel, from tariffs to Venezuela, from sanctions to Greenland, from crypto to giving pardons, and so on. He is trying to be everywhere. In every topic and field. Now Iran situation will start to calm down and Trump would switch his attention on something else.

[abhiseshakana]

Yes, obviously Trump is trying to calm down the markets by making certain statements and delaying the missile strikes over Iranian power plants. But that doesn't solve the problem. For how long the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed? How long will this war continue? What happens if the USA starts a land based operation? Having high oil prices will have a devastating effect over the global economy. It's not just the oil and gas prices. Helium, which is being exported by Persian Gulf countries is really important for microchip production. Trump cannot to calm down the markets by making statements, because the markets have less and less trust in what Trump has to say.

I will try guess carefully and say Trump has lost interest to Iran. He has been dealing with Iran for month already. For me Trump looks like a person who is running with fire. He is running from one thing to another. From Iran to Israel, from tariffs to Venezuela, from sanctions to Greenland, from crypto to giving pardons, and so on. He is trying to be everywhere. In every topic and field. Now Iran situation will start to calm down and Trump would switch his attention on something else.

It seems like the language in chess is that whoever calls for a draw first, loses. But wider perception, it can be said mission accomplish or the objective of the military attack has been achieved. It can be Trump's target is only degrade Iran's military power which its attack to several Iran's nuclear and military facility not a long term war. Beside that do not forget Trump policy always transactional, focus on fast target achievement in sight and put concern on public perception. With his u turn policy i think the quick victory naration locked and easy to deliver. The most important thing in war beside victory is not destroy the enemy to the utmost but know the perfect time when to stop without looking defeated.