David Sacks

We don't want that to persist longer than it has to, but there are actually worse outcomes than that.

So if the Iranians get hit, if their oil and gas infrastructure gets hit, they've already said they're gonna engage

in tit-for-tat retaliation against the Gulf states.

And we saw there was recently the Iranians blew up this giant oil depot in Oman.

You saw some of those images.

They could continue to target the oil and gas infrastructure across the Gulf states.

And if that happens, it won't really matter if the straits get reopened because you won't be able to restart oil and gas production in the Middle East.

So that would be, I think, a much worse outcome that could result from escalation.

Furthermore, there's an even worse, I think, scenario from there, which is the region is very dependent on desalination plants.

I think something like 70% of Riyadh gets their water from desalination.

I think it's something like 100 million people on the Arabian Peninsula that get their water from desal.

I mean, it's basically a desert, right?

And those desal plants were soft targets.

You already saw there was, I think there was one desal plant in Iran that got hit.

And then it caused Iran, again, tit for tat to hit a desal plant.

I think it was in Kuwait.

I could be off about that.

But in any event, if you see that type of destruction continue, you could literally render the Gulf almost uninhabitable.

I mean, you're just not going to have enough water for 100 million people.

And human beings just cannot survive very long without water.