Brandon Aceto

I know.

To us, this is an economic war.

This is a war for our living standards and things like that.

This is a different...

you know, theological to these people.

I don't think people realize how much of a stranglehold Iran has over the global oil markets.

I mean, that was really the crux of why this ended up being as difficult as it was because people woke up and realized like, holy cow, they don't even have to actually drop bombs in the Strait.

They just have to threaten to drop bombs in the Strait and you can shut down the global oil market to a large degree.

I mean, they obviously, I think they always had this power, just because geographically, like you've done great work on that.

Geographically, I mean, it's so easy for them to control because of the sheer, you know, the mountainous region of it.

It's almost impossible for, you know, a foreign invader to put boots on the ground and actually control that region the way that Iran can.

So...

I mean, there's a lot of strategists who have known this, and it's why I think people were always very tepid about doing something like invading Iran, in part because this disruption was always so front and center.

Going forward now, though, it's become so obvious to everybody that, hey, Iran plays a much bigger role in the global oil market.

than we suspected, and that's not going to change going forward.

Yeah, it's interesting how much the technology is starting to change now and influence the way the militaries are fighting because you're seeing these autonomous vehicles increasingly play such a big role that even a poorer country can actually defend itself pretty well against the United States.

A $10,000 drone could take out a multi-billion dollar ship.

I saw a report that Trump was saying that they're going to split the tolls.

I don't know how truthful that is, but he said he was going to try to negotiate some way to split the tolls.

I don't know if that's a good thing or not.