Eddie Fishman
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20% of global oil flowed through this narrow waterway every day.
Much more.
Yeah.
I mean, I think that's one of the, like what we're seeing right now coming out of the war is that Iran may emerge from this war decimated militarily and economically, but strengthened strategically because they've shown the world that they can use this choke point to incredible effect.
And something, you know, it used to be that the U.S.
could, you know, like I said, I used to go to places like Singapore and Japan.
And you said, well, look, if you keep doing business with Iran, we'll cut you off from the dollar.
Well, now what happens if Iran says to the Japanese, well, unless you lift your sanctions on us, we won't allow your ships to go through the Strait of Hormuz.
Wow.
And that's what they're doing.
I mean, they're cutting deals on a bilateral basis, like with other countries saying, your ship can go through, your ship can't.
Yeah, totally.
So, I mean, I think what we've seen, because you're asking like what era has happened.
I mean, the whole thesis of my book, Choke Points, is that we're living in an age of economic warfare.
I think for the first...
15 or so years or 20 years of that period, we were kind of in this unipolar world where it was like the U.S.
had all these economic weapons, but other countries didn't.
Well, now we have China with rare earth elements where they completely shocked the United States last year by cutting off our access.
We have Iran with the Strait of Hormuz.
They literally, they imposed an embargo on rare earth elements in April of last year on the U.S.,
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