David E. Sanger
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1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 23 Jul
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everyone in the region, the Arab states, everybody who's protected by the U.S., a 20% fee, 20% of the value of the cargo they are delivering, and the U.S.
will basically be the paid peacekeeper of the region.
It was kind of a shocking thing because his own secretary of state was telling us that the goal was to actually restore the Strait to the pre-war period where there were no charges for anything, no tolls, no service fees.
And here was his own boss, the president, saying, yeah, there'll be a 20 percent security charge that goes to the taxpayers of the United States.
Well, he dropped it after that phone call.
Until Monday.
Well, inherent in that concept is sort of an admission that the U.S.
could be there for months, for years, forever.
until there's an alternative way to get the region's oil to the markets of the world.
And even if we are not at full-scale war, even if we are just caught on the precipice between war and peace, more like a counterterrorism operation than a full-scale war,
That is the definition of the kind of forever war presence, even if we're not taking significant casualties.
Unfortunately, so far we have not.
But that is exactly what his MAGA supporters were worried about with Iran, that we would go in and get stuck.
Always great to be with you, Rachel.
Great to be with you, Natalie, as always.
Well, the main thing that the US got, Natalie, was a 60-day ceasefire in the war and sort of a return to the status quo, at least for a little while, that existed before the US and Israel attacked Iran.
But the key thing to know is that it didn't really address any of the issues that led the president and Prime Minister Netanyahu to attack Iran.
It just sort of resets the clock.
And it has one paragraph on what was the underlying cause of this war, which is Iran's nuclear program.
Well, this is the only paragraph that actually puts an affirmative obligation on Iran.
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