Dr. Janice Stein

It's a slog.

It really is a slog, and

Because the Americans experience this, you know this, you experience this close up, and you get a sense of where the deficiencies are and what has to happen and what has to change.

There's much more of a sense of urgency.

They are already thinking about the next generation technology.

So, by the way, must the Chinese be when they watch this?

The third big change that comes out of this, no matter what that framework agreement says...

The Gulf states are going to build pipelines.

They are going to build pipelines.

Now, look, one catastrophe that did not happen, and I wondered why it didn't during this war, the Red Sea on the other side is within range of Iranian missiles.

And that could have shut down all the oil that was coming out through the overland pipelines.

And so that remains a challenge going forward.

But there's no question the Emiratis, the Saudis, the Qataris are going to find other ways of exporting their energy.

So that over time, that strategic, and time is not forever.

Those countries get stuff built.

It doesn't take 13 years to build a pipeline in Saudi Arabia.

They will get stuff built.

So that strategic asset that is so important to Iran, the straight, will still be important, but nothing like how important it is right today and over the next two years.

From a military perspective, the Israelis had more, they had less expensive missiles because everything that was made at home is less expensive, right?

And that's what we're seeing now, that countries are able to make, on the offensive side, really cheap missiles that are very effective.