RE:Israel attacks Iran"It will be interesting to see how this affects oil."
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IMO after a sharp but brief spike, oil will likely settle down to plus or minus $1-$2 for the week. But I am no expert on oil.
What is more critical is the scope of Iranian response. Should they decide that it is not the time to provoke US to join the donnybrooks, they might just do a token missile attack, maybe actually taking out one of Bibi's dachas somewhere on the coast, or perhaps a military base around Haifa or in the Negev.
But of course the 64k question is what was brewing during Blinken's latest peripatetic shuttling. Did he beseech the Israelis not to upset the applecart before the election or did he wink and prod them to go bombs away in the hopes that a war would help the Dems win in the next ten days as it did GWBush get a second term in 2003?
And above everything else, what if Trump wins? Then all bets are off. In the interregnum between Nov 5 and Jan 20 Bibi and his cohorts will have a free reign to mount their dream campaign against all Amalakites.