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how much per ship?
A cool 2 million USD
USD or Yuan?
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2It's 13.7 mil yuan, but the point is that it's a direct attack on the petrodollar
IMO at this scale, it's not really upsetting anything.
KSA is pumping oil at a cost of about 50$ cost to them and selling at around 100$ so the other 50$ is getting pushed into the US stock market (minus 2$ for the toll), so basically Iran shaved off 4% of the petrodollar revenue stream.
IMO letting them make a bomb is a way bigger deal, because the global consensus is that you never attack nuclear powers, so they would be safe forever.
KSA is pumping oil at a cost of about 50$ cost to them and selling at around 100$ so the other 50$ is getting pushed into the US stock market (minus 2$ for the toll), so basically Iran shaved off 4% of the petrodollar revenue stream.
IMO letting them make a bomb is a way bigger deal, because the global consensus is that you never attack nuclear powers, so they would be safe forever.