As missiles and oil tankers reshape the geography of global commerce, Robert Kiyosaki — veteran, investor, and longtime provocateur — is reminding the world of an uncomfortable truth: wars have always redistributed wealth, and the current Iran-US-Israel tensions are doing so in real time. With oil above $110 a barrel and markets from Mumbai to Manhattan absorbing the shock, Kiyosaki is not celebrating the moment but dissecting it, arguing that financial ignorance is its own form of casualty. His message, forged partly in the jungles of Vietnam and partly in the discipline of markets, is that p
Kiyosaki: Wars Profitable for Prepared Investors Amid Middle East Tensions
Kiyosaki acknowledges deaths and injuries in Middle East conflicts and notes broader economic hardship through inflation, poverty, and homelessness affecting civilians.
War may be a time to get smarter and richer—if you choose carefully
Mark
You're saying wars are profitable. That sounds like you're endorsing them.
Mimi
No. I'm saying they happen because they are profitable for some people. That's different. I'm not endorsing it—I'm observing it. And I'm saying if you don't understand that, you'll be the one who loses money.
Mark
But most people don't have capital sitting around waiting to buy assets cheap. They're living paycheck to paycheck.
Mimi
That's exactly why financial education matters. You don't need a lot of money to start. I started with nothing. The point is discipline and understanding how money works. Most people never learn that.
Mark
So when oil prices spike and inflation hits, the poor get poorer and the prepared get richer. That's just how it works?
Mimi
That's how it has worked, yes. But it doesn't have to be that way if people educate themselves. The system isn't secret. It's just that most people don't pay attention to it.
Mark
You mentioned going hungry after buying bitcoins. That's a pretty extreme example.
Mimi
It was. But it taught me something. You have to be willing to sacrifice short-term comfort for long-term positioning. Most people won't do that. They want safety. But safety in a volatile world is an illusion.
Mark
What about the people who can't afford to sacrifice? Who are already struggling?
Mimi
That's the tragedy. And that's why I keep saying financial education is essential. Not as a luxury. As a necessity. If you don't understand inflation, debt, and how assets work, the system will extract wealth from you whether you're prepared or not.
Il Polso
- Oil has surged past $110 a barrel as the Strait of Hormuz closes under geopolitical pressure, triggering selloffs from Dalal Street to global commodity markets.
- Kiyosaki warns that the real casualties of war extend far beyond the battlefield — inflation, rising national debt, poverty, and homelessness quietly devastate civilians who never saw the conflict coming.
- His prescription is urgent and personal: financial education is not a peacetime luxury but a wartime necessity, and those without it will watch their savings eroded by forces they cannot name.
- He points to Warren Buffett's massive cash reserves as a model — patient capital waiting for market dislocations to create buying opportunities that panic and ignorance will miss.
- The current crisis is already sorting investors into two camps: those positioned in energy stocks, commodities, and inflation hedges who are gaining ground, and the unprepared who are losing it.
As missiles and oil tankers reshape the geography of global commerce, Robert Kiyosaki — veteran, investor, and longtime provocateur — is reminding the world of an uncomfortable truth: wars have always redistributed wealth, and the current Iran-US-Israel tensions are doing so in real time. With oil above $110 a barrel and markets from Mumbai to Manhattan absorbing the shock, Kiyosaki is not celebrating the moment but dissecting it, arguing that financial ignorance is its own form of casualty. His message, forged partly in the jungles of Vietnam and partly in the discipline of markets, is that preparation — not prediction — is what separates those who endure crises from those who are quietly consumed by them.
Robert Kiyosaki, the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, has spent the past week delivering a message that is clinical rather than celebratory: wars are tragic, and they are also profitable. The ongoing tensions between Iran, the United States, and Israel have pushed oil above $110 a barrel, effectively closing the Strait of Hormuz and sending shockwaves through global markets. In India, Dalal Street has absorbed a sharp selloff. Kiyosaki's argument, made across multiple posts on X, is blunt — if wars were not profitable, they would not happen.
His perspective carries personal weight. Kiyosaki served in Vietnam twice, losing friends in both deployments, and returned there just weeks ago to find some measure of peace with those losses. His concern about the current conflict is twofold: he grieves for those killed and wounded, and he grieves for civilians far from the fighting who will suffer through inflation, rising debt, and deepening poverty. These, he argues, are the hidden costs that ordinary people bear.
Yet his central message is one of preparation, not despair. Financial education, he insists, is essential precisely when geopolitical crises strike. He points to his own early investing — buying his first six bitcoins for $600, his entire savings, and going hungry for days — and to Warren Buffett, who has sold billions in stocks and is now sitting on cash reserves, waiting for markets to fall before deploying capital into depressed assets. The lesson, as Kiyosaki frames it: investors who anticipate the future accumulate wealth while the unprepared lose it.
What distinguishes Kiyosaki's argument is his refusal to separate financial opportunity from human cost. He does not minimize the deaths or the displacement. But he also refuses to pretend that war does not reshape the financial landscape. His call for financial education is, at its core, a call for ordinary people to understand the rules of the game well enough to protect themselves — and whether that is a realistic hope for most, or an optimistic gloss on structural powerlessness, is a question he leaves open.
Robert Kiyosaki, the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, has spent the past week on social media making a stark argument: wars are tragic, but they are also profitable—and the current tensions between Iran, the United States, and Israel are proving his point in real time. Oil prices have climbed above $110 a barrel as the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed, sending shockwaves through markets worldwide. In India, the surge has triggered a sharp selloff on Dalal Street. Kiyosaki's message, delivered across multiple posts on X, is not celebratory. It is clinical. He quoted a Vietnam-era protest song—"War: What is it good for? Absolutely nothing"—before adding a qualifier that cuts to the heart of his argument: if wars were not profitable, they would not happen.
Kiyosaki's perspective is shaped by lived experience. He served in Vietnam twice, in 1966 and again from 1971 to 1972, losing friends in both deployments. Three weeks before his recent posts, he returned to Vietnam to process those losses and find some measure of peace. His concern about the current conflict in the Middle East is twofold. He grieves for those killed and wounded. But he also grieves for people far from the fighting who will suffer financially through inflation, rising national debt, and deepening poverty and homelessness at home. These, he argues, are the hidden costs of war that ordinary citizens bear.
Yet Kiyosaki's central message is not one of despair. It is one of preparation. He argues that financial education is not a luxury in times of peace—it is essential in times of war. Your greatest asset, he wrote, is yourself and the financial knowledge you choose to acquire. War may be a time to get smarter and richer, but only if you choose your teachers and your education with care. This is where his argument shifts from observation to prescription. He is not saying war is good. He is saying that for those who understand markets and have the discipline to act, crises create opportunity.
Kiyosaki has long held that market crashes are buying opportunities for investors with cash and conviction. He points to his own early investing—buying his first six bitcoins for $600, the entirety of his savings at the time, and going hungry for days afterward. He credits Marine Corps discipline and the spiritual support of friends for sustaining him through that period. He also invokes Warren Buffett, noting that the billionaire investor has sold billions in stocks and is now sitting on massive cash reserves, waiting for markets to fall so he can purchase assets at depressed prices. The lesson, as Kiyosaki frames it, is simple: investors who can see the future are the ones who get richer. The "buy, hold, and pray" crowd, he suggests, will be the biggest losers.
Kiyosaki has also referenced predictions from the 16th-century French astrologer Nostradamus and the early 20th-century American psychic Edgar Cayce, both of whom he claims forecast a market crash in 2026. Whether one credits such prophecies or not, his underlying argument rests on observable market behavior: geopolitical shocks drive volatility, volatility creates price dislocations, and price dislocations create opportunities for those with capital and the nerve to deploy it. The current oil spike is a case study. It has wiped out substantial wealth for unprepared investors while creating openings for those positioned to profit from energy stocks, commodities, or other inflation hedges.
What makes Kiyosaki's message distinctive is that he does not separate the financial opportunity from the human cost. He acknowledges both. He does not celebrate war. He does not minimize the deaths, the displacement, the suffering. But he also refuses to pretend that war does not reshape the financial landscape, or that some people will emerge wealthier while others grow poorer. His call for financial education is, in this context, a call for ordinary people to understand the rules of the game well enough to protect themselves and, if possible, to build wealth during the chaos. Whether that is a realistic hope for most people, or whether it amounts to asking the powerless to simply be smarter about their own dispossession, is a question Kiyosaki does not address.
Citazioni salienti
If wars were not profitable, there wouldn't have been any wars.— Robert Kiyosaki
Investors who can see the future are the investors who get richer. The 'buy, hold, and pray' crowd will be the biggest losers.— Robert Kiyosaki
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