Dave Smith

Anyway, now, I don't know.

I have not I don't think I've ever read about or seen like a blockade to counter a blockade before.

I guess the game here is that Donald Trump will go, well, hey.

we can't stop you, but we can cut off our nose to spite your face type of thing.

We certainly have the naval capabilities, I think, to say, hey, if there's a ship that has been given permission by Iran to go through the strait, we're not letting you through.

So now no one can get through.

So Iran, they ultimately control the decision to keep the thing all the way open,

or all the way closed.

We're denying them their middle ground of the straights open to who we say, but close to who we say.

And so, of course, the Trump sycophants are out celebrating this as like a brilliant move that totally turned the tables.

He's showing them, you know, because somehow this is the art of the deal, Rob.

This is, you know...

what 3D negotiating is really all about.

What you do is you threaten total destruction of the civilization.

Then you completely capitulate to all of their demands.

Then you say, nah, we didn't capitulate to none of your demands.

Then you do a completely different military action, which the targeted outcome for is exactly the opposite of what we all wanted.

We wanted the straight open.

Now we've got it completely closed.

They'll still go.