Captain Jim Fennell

Remember last week you had those articles in Axios that said that the chairman was against the strike.

Everybody.

And then you brought on the Omani delegate.

So there was a lot of deception that went on here.

And we always think of the Chinese are very good at deception.

But I think President Trump is as well.

And I think at the tactical and operational level, we will be using deception to be able to ferret out these remaining parts of the Iranian military regime.

that can strike outside of their shores and borders so that we're not constantly at threat.

I made many transits through the Strait of Hormuz.

It's always a dangerous and deadly risk when you go through there because you're essentially driving through their missile envelopes.

And we need to eliminate that so that the free flow of goods and services and oil and everything else that comes in and out isn't under the hostage threat from the Iranians.

And so I think

That's what we're doing right now.

We're shaping the environment to roll those threats back so that we can operate with freedom and have air and sea supremacy in the region.

I don't think anybody's shipping oil through the Strait of Hormuz today.

And so it depends on how long this goes.

what conditions we establish.

But I think that is obviously one of the objective is to cut off the money to the Mulas and also an ancillary impact is to remind China their vulnerabilities and that they need to behave and not consider other activities in their region out there in the Indo-Pacific.

But I would say with the forces that we have there right now, nobody is going to, with the missiles that will be flying, have been flying and can continue to fly.

I don't see commercial oil tankers going in and out right now, not for the near term.