Adam Grant

And it's a nation that relies on energy for its entire economy, right?

And for, you know, powering hospitals and schools and other things that are important, not just for the military, but for civilians.

Those kind of maximalist comments on the one hand.

On the other hand, he's talking about negotiations.

All weekend you had senior Trump administration officials talking about their efforts to negotiate an end to the conflict.

So we don't really know where we're going to end up.

And one possibility that where we could end up is something in the middle, where you have U.S.

forces temporarily deploying to some places to put more pressure on Iran, something that the U.S.

military has been planning to do.

And it is possible that instead of choosing one of these two options, one is, you know,

you know, come to fruition, these plans the military has been putting on the board for some time, which are, you know, limited occupation of islands or shoreline along the Strait of Hormuz.

Absolutely.

There is a real risk of mission creep, but I would argue that that is something that the folks that I've spoken to are aware of.

They're aware of the mission creep risks.

They don't have the kind of military movements of ground forces into the region that you would expect ahead of a major ground invasion.

All of the kinds of things that we're seeing, the movement of forces that we've seen, are much more closely aligned with the idea of a limited operation and not a major invasion.

So, you know, so far in recent days, we've had a movement of, you know, a couple thousand paratroopers into the region.

And those folks could be some of the kinds of people that would parachute onto Karg Island, for example, or might parachute onto some of these other smaller islands that are also significant for protecting the Strait of Hormuz, which, you know, when the president isn't talking about Karg Island, is one of the things he also talks about.

There's different ways to militarily open that strait.

The question is, you know, will he pull the trigger and carry out this limited operation that would include not just those paratroopers, but also thousands of Marines and sailors that have been moving into the region in recent days to give the president these extra options.