Bob Kagan
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first heard Feb 2026
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So the notion, by the way, I keep hearing people talk about how there's going to be a sanctions regime on Iran still.
No, there isn't, because the Iranians are not going to let anybody with a vessel who's putting sanctions on them get their vessels through the Strait.
It's as simple as that.
So the sanctions are all going to fall.
Anyway, the point is, Japan and other countries are going to now, they can no longer rely on the United States for this.
They're going to have to find other ways of dealing with it.
And this is true in Europe, and it's true in other places, too.
So that's one thing.
The other thing that's happening is we are simultaneously, this is unrelated to Iran, but Iran is certainly exacerbated, we are simultaneously pulling out of Europe.
And the Europeans now are worried, and I think this is a correct worry, that Putin, who is sort of stalemated in Ukraine, is now going to take aggressive steps to stop the supply of weapons in Ukraine.
I have been wondering for really a few years now,
why Russia hasn't tried to stop the supply of weaponry that's coming first from the United States and then from Europe.
I think that is his goal now, and I think he will use threats.
They've really stepped up what people call the hybrid warfare against European states, especially in the Baltic states, especially against Lithuania, for instance, lately.
There's a whole Kaliningrad scenario, which we can get into if you feel like it.
You know, the corridor that runs, Russia has this fluke where they control Kaliningrad, which is not, you know, coterminous to their border.
So the idea that they would open a corridor, which just happens to go through other states to be able to reach Kaliningrad, et cetera, has always been one of the possibilities.
Other possibilities have to do with protecting the Russian population in some of these countries.
He's made a fuss about that in the past.
There's all kinds of pretexts of things that Russia could do with the goal of
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