Jeffrey Sachs
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first heard Oct 2024
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Now, the difference of then and now is that the two shocks then were
temporary stops of the flows of oil.
One was a boycott by the Arab countries against the US and other buyers.
like shutting down the Strait of Hormuz.
Just to be clear, what were they mad about?
They were mad about the 1973 war.
U.S.
support for Israel.
Exactly.
This has been the same issue.
I was four years old when that happened.
This goes back a long way.
And then 1979-80 was the Iranian revolution.
And...
The oil got turned off, but the oil fields weren't destroyed.
There was no war in the oil fields.
There was no physical destruction of infrastructure.
Refineries weren't destroyed.
What will happen in the next few weeks, if we don't choose the off-ramp, is the physical destruction of a lot of the Gulf region,
and of the middle east more generally because the u.s will rain missiles and bombs on iran and iran will launch what it has against targets in the neighborhood to show deterrence and hoping that that deterrence will stop something often instead what you get is just both sides unleashing their arsenals
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