Chad Scott

That is Iran's strongest card.

It is narrow focus, economically sensitive, and it lets Iran pressure the global economy without doing anything meaningful.

They don't have to fight the U.S.

Navy.

They don't have to really do anything other than scare people.

So if we stay hyper-focused on Hormuz, we are fighting Iran where Iran is strongest.

And then you're getting into the art of war in Sun Tzu.

We're fighting them on their territory.

That does not mean we should be surrendering the Strait of Hormuz.

We should absolutely come to some way to make this open and free again.

But it means we stop letting Iran define the entire war around it.

And so we take this fight from the Strait of Hormuz and we move it out into a global system.

We blow it up where America is the strongest.

The entire world, because of our soft power, because of our hard power, is our strongest arena.

And that's the first thing.

We have to admit that this strategy of trying to hit Iran in the mouth in the small spot is not working.

And we need to broaden out by rebuilding our allied front.

We need, and again, this isn't going to happen, but this is what we need to do.

We need to go to Europe, Japan, Australia, all of our Gulf partners and say, look, we screwed up.

We tried to handle this alone.