Chad Scott

We tried to take care of this problem.

We didn't do it well.

We need the help on the diplomatic and economic fronts.

And along with that, we've got to stop trashing NATO.

We've got to stop picking fights with our allies.

We've got to reaffirm our commitments to Europe, increase support in Ukraine where we can as kind of a, hey, you help us out.

We'll definitely help you out in Ukraine.

Because the next phase of this only works if other major Western economies are aligned with us.

Without those other Western economies, countries like China and Russia will find loopholes to help Iran survive the pressure because they love seeing this pressure on the United States.

So it has to become not the United States pressuring.

It has to be a coordinated global pressure campaign instead of this unilateral American mess that we love to think that we're so star-spangled awesome that we can fix ourselves.

And it ends up turning out, no, we can't.

We need help with our allies.

Second of all, we've got to separate the immediate crisis from this long-term Iran problem.

The immediate crisis is Hormuz right now.

We need to solve that now and kind of backburner everything else.

And I know that sounds really bad to the Trump administration.

That means we've got to backburner the nuclear program, their missiles, their drones, their proxies, all of that.

But now we're having actual human suffering from the Strait of Hormuz being closed.

So that needs to be separated.