LONDON, U.K.—Still not four full weeks into the war, and already United States President Donald Trump’s “short-term excursion”—decapitate the Iranian regime with a surprise attack and impose harsh terms on the defeated survivors—has morphed into a global economic crisis and a region-wide war that could destroy the wealth of all the countries on both sides of the Gulf. At the very least.

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