Chad Scott

I don't necessarily think they're going to be firing constantly.

They just need enough to create this air of chaos.

And with that chaos, and maybe Matt can talk about this as well, they struck an oil facility that was supposed to be a workaround pipeline.

That's north of Dubai, I believe.

But basically, there's a pipeline.

And so Iran is not only focusing now on the Strait of Hormuz, they're trying to punish anyone who is circumventing the Strait of Hormuz's control regime by striking pipelines and things like that that would be used to go around their kind of pseudo blockade.

They're just trying to assert control.

It's this new maritime regime.

They're trying to say, hey, we're in charge of the straight.

The two parties here kind of sitting on opposite sides of what is common international law is the United States is saying, hey, we're going to blockade as we see fit because this is a war.

it's not really a war.

According to many in the MAGA movement, we've already had to deal with that problem because we've passed the 60 days.

Regardless, Iran sitting on the other side saying, no, this body of water borders us, we control it, and you guys got to deal with it.

So at that point, we're looking at an approach where you have two countries operating outside of international law, believing what they believe is right, and it's leading to

For all intents and purposes, I don't see a way out of this other than it becoming more of a kinetic fight.

And that's kind of what we're seeing with these small boats being struck by Apaches in the Strait of Hormuz, some six to seven, depending on who the source is, of these Iranian swift boats, these small fast boats that come in and try to harass the ships.

They were apparently struck by Apache helicopters.

destroying them, missile strikes on these countries, and then obviously the missile strikes on a pipeline system.

So CNN's reporting that within the next 24 hours, a coalition of the U.S.

and Israel and potentially even other countries, including the UAE, are looking to start striking Iran again.