I’ve also wondered that. I suspect they are firstly idiots and secondly grifters. They are blind to the long term effects of their plans but hope to grift alo

I’ve also wondered that. I suspect they are firstly idiots and secondly grifters. They are blind to the long term effects of their plans but hope to grift along the way. Sure, buying puts or shorting huge amounts of stock now (expecting near term market manipulation) is “a strategy”. But there would be significant risk in how fast one could crash the markets to make it worth the while. Doing it to am individual stock or industry would be far safer and more lucrative and just destroying everything. Would also be a lot of uncertainty in how quickly such long term damage could be repaired, even if at all. Even trying to think like a psychopathic traitor, doing all this to win favor with a dictator in a frozen second rate country seems odd. There aren’t many predominantly English speaking countries in the world. What do they expect to do? Buy Belize and retire there? Surely not going to be Greenland!