Bob Pittman

Are we going to just be blowing up Chinese tankers?

Something makes me think that's not going to happen.

That seems like a really bad idea.

Oh, it's going to be horrible.

On every sort of level, including the fact, listen, we already know with the Chinese that they have, sorry, no pun intended, a Trump card, right?

which is, you know, when we went to war with them, economic war through the tariffs, they were like, that's great.

You don't get access to our rare earth minerals.

And very quickly, Trump caved intelligently and was like, you know, the stupid part was the threat to begin with, not realizing the sort of cards that they held in his sort of parlance.

And very quickly, they forced him to realize that they had a much stronger position.

And that's

central leverage point obviously still remains.

The other thing that's very interesting here is, you know, Trump apparently didn't contemplate at all that they would be able to close the Strait of Hormuz or control the Strait of Hormuz.

He thought this thing would be wrapped in three days, that the regime would collapse and he'd be victorious, blah, blah, blah.

Like, I think he genuinely believed that.

So he didn't think through this part at all.

Now, military strategists obviously did.

This is something that's been contemplated for a long time.

It's not clear that they contemplated the situation where Iran wouldn't close the Strait of Hormuz.

They would just control it and get to pick and choose.

Now, from the U.S.