We don't even have the $300 billion. That's the problem.
Elaborate...
Here is my view on the fiasco of the fund inside the larger fiasco of the surrender which is inside the overall fiasco of the war itself.
Feel free to correct me where I'm wrong.
I'm told that Arab nations (unspecified of course) will invest $300B to rebuild Iran. Why $300B? It sounds rather arbitrary to me but $300B is the figure. The figure of $300B is a football stadium in the US....I would have hoped that we did a lot more than $300B worth of damage. Anyway...I'm told it's not reparations...its investments being made by Arabs. An investment isn't a grant or a gift or foreign aid..
.it's an investment. What is the payoff for the investors? Its hard to see how Egypt (an Arab nation--insert another one if you like) building highways in Tehran is going to help Egypt. Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation building a refinery whereby they take Iranian crude and sell it will make a nice return on investment. More oil on the open market is good for consumers...not so good for ExxonMobil, Aramco, Texaco, Chevron, etc...
Its puzzling why American companies are being frozen out of this investment market since we are the ones who, quite bizarrely, created the market with our tomahawks and JDAMs and dead and wounded soldiers--all who wore the stars and stripes.
I'm also told that the investments are contingent on Iran's behavior. Who is going to first decide if they "crossed the line" and secondly, who is going to enforce it? The US? We're going to send our pilots back into harm's way to do what exactly.....destroy what the Arab nations are investing in? Its really hard to imagine the arab states welcoming Israel to destroying their investments...or anyone else for that matter.
Running in the background on all of this is that EGPC (Egypt's national oil company--just to name an investor) likely doesn't give two shits about Iran getting a nuke. They won't be targeted and they certainly don't care about Iran sponsoring terrorist groups.
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