Aaron David Miller

Yeah.

I mean, Scott Besant, the treasurer secretary, admitted as much.

We've also unsanctioned 140 million barrels of Iranian oil and, as you know, much to the dismay of Ukraine and other European allies.

have granted waivers to the Russians on sanctioned oil.

I mean, Vladimir Putin right now, if the war stopped tomorrow...

would hands down be the winner here.

He's getting rich because what Brent Crude was up over $100 a barrel today, he's getting rich.

Every Tomahawk missile that the US launches against Iran is one less munition that Europeans can buy from the US to use in Ukraine.

And to a degree, President Xi of China has benefited as well because the focus is not on the Taiwan Straits, not on the Asia Pacific.

It's on the Middle East.

I think the Chinese would actually like to see this end.

I mean— Since when did—look, let me be very clear.

Having worked and voted for Democrats and Republicans, when has international law ever mattered?

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abides by it when it serves its interests and violates it when it doesn't.

And I think, again, I'm not an international lawyer.

You get a very smart professor of international maritime law at U.S.

Naval War College, James Kresko, who, you know, has basically said that the right of visit and search is

meaning that you can stop and inspect even private vessels and waters that are not neutral and decide whether or not they pass, is a right that parties at war.

And clearly, this is not an excursion.