August 2, 1990!
The Middle Eastern strongman Saddam charged into Kuwait!
Intending to turn it into the 19th province.
The Persian Gulf was suddenly shrouded in the clouds of war, the bigwigs of Europe collectively went mad, and the Americans issued four severe warnings within three days!
Out of the world's 20 super-giant oil fields, 11 are in the Gulf region. Are you messing around without even asking us?
Kuwait is Iraq's creditor, having lent them a lot of money, probably over a hundred billion US dollars. Saddam looked and thought, whoops, it seems a bit hard to repay, so why not just make the creditor disappear!
Ratatat...
As for Victor, he was quite relaxed; during this time, he had been "remote commanding," using Golden Finger to pinch out a "Baja California Economic Think Tank," about 15 people, almost all of the national team level.
These were... professionals.
After direct research, they believed they could go all-in on oil futures!
