Brandon

But

I think he stumbled upon the fact here that we've put ourselves in the terrible position of not being equipped to deal with a situation like this.

Ukraine went through, I believe, 10 years of weapons that were built in the first five weeks of the Ukraine war.

So we've been seeing it in the headlines for the last four years.

There's huge shortages of...

these defense missiles we've been using.

And I don't think we have the capacity to keep this up for much longer.

You know, the oil is the one thing, but yeah, sure, we're the best military in the world.

We have the most advanced technology, but we've had our manufacturing hollowed out over the last several decades.

So that's the most unsettling thing to me.

I think that's what we need to be putting our effort in behind the scenes is to ramp that back up because we're not in a position to carry this out if we wanted to.

Yes, I agree that the Kaiser Soze thing, I don't think Trump's crazy or unhinged Iraq.

I think he was acting that way to try to scare them into something that was palatable.

But I don't think this is an optimal outcome at all.

I think we're in a worse situation than we were before he started this thing.

Because now Iran has realized, okay, we could flip this switch of shutting down the straightforward moves, which they didn't even blockade it.

They just have the mere threat of a drone hitting a ship that's going through.

So it's not like they're moving ships out of the way when you say they're clearing the strait.

They're just promising not to drone strike any boats that go through.

So I don't even know if