Ben Shapiro

The question is whether they're going to do that.

Trump is offering them an offer to do that.

Maybe they'll take it.

All likelihood they won't.

Also, by the way, this does allow for military replenishment.

We've been flying continuous sorties for a month, so it's not a terrible time to do some maintenance and repair and some planning for whatever the next step is going to be if, in fact, the negotiations go sideways.

So the people who are all over Trump here,

who believe that he's just gonna give up the ghost, that he's going to leave without achieving some status change in Iran's nuclear approach, or that the control of the straits is going to be left completely to the behest of the Iranians, it beggars imagination.

It doesn't make any sense because it cuts directly against the purpose of President Trump doing this, which is a stronger America.

There would be knock-on effects if Iran were able to just maintain complete control over the strait,

And no deal took place and the U.S.

just walked away.

Yes, they would be greatly weakened, but it would send some pretty bad messages.

Like, for example, that any country could talk the United States into abandoning core national interests over shutting down serious trade routes.

China might take notice of that, for example, because the Taiwan Strait, which, you know, like it's called the Taiwan Strait because it passes right by Taiwan.

It carries 20% of all global maritime trade.

It carries something like 90% of the world's largest ships by tonnage.

So if China takes away the lesson that shutting off a trade corridor is leverage against the United States sufficient to deter us from our core national interests, that's a problem.

It would also mean, because China's way stronger than Iran, that any country with a few drones and ballistic missiles and some geographic proximity to a choke point could wave off the most powerful force on planet Earth.

And it would be very bad for President Trump's legacy because again, two years from now, three years from now, Iran could theoretically rebuild and then claim real victory over President Trump.