Daniel Yergin

It was air power, so there has not been a land invasion.

I think it's thought that any boots on the ground is very precarious.

It's the thing that...

Trump criticized everybody else for.

The scale would have to be very large.

Will there be a more focused military option to sort of regain control of the strait?

Everything is more difficult now.

Of course, we're in an age of drones where an inexpensive drone can do a lot of damage, and there are a lot of drones.

The way I think about it,

Ukraine was really the testbed or the beta test for 21st century warfare in terms of both traditional warfare but also drone warfare.

And that is, you know, in terms of securing...

the Strait of Hormuz, unless you can also take out the drone problem, it's gonna be harder.

But I guess I find it hard to believe that the situation we see now with Iran in control of the Strait of Hormuz will continue.

But how that gets resolved,

we're still going to see, and it may be in surprising ways.

They've prepared for this.

And it looks like in companies, they always talk about succession planning.

It sure looks like the Iranians did succession planning in terms of who will step in.

And maybe they'd seen this pattern of assassinations.

They saw what happened in Lebanon.