Carter Banks
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So just for accuracy, the Strait is actually 21 miles.
Oh, 21 miles.
Narrowest point.
And I have a bit of a different perspective than Libby.
I do think that this is actually โ the Venezuela and the Iran op is actually more about China than it is about Russia.
I think that it's about trying to limit China's ability to get oil.
China gets โ China takes like 80 percent of the oil from Iran.
Go basically directly from Iran to China because of sanctions and stuff like that.
And China doesn't mind going around the sanctions.
China is our greatest geopolitical rival right now.
Russia's not really.
I mean, they show that they're a paper tiger.
They can't even beat little Russia.
I mean, he may want that stopped, but I don't think that this actually has as much effect on Russia as it does have on China.
And then as for like a long term, they the administration made a bad move by even putting any kind of time frame when they were starting out and they were saying, look, this is open ended.
This is going to be longer than just a strike.