Fareed Zakaria

So they have added on additional demands.

If anything, you would have gotten a skinny version of these demands three months ago, so we could have easily negotiated with no war.

The Strait of Hormuz.

I totally agree.

I think that is one of the most telling comments that Trump has made.

And to give you a sense of how divergent it is.

The United States' first military action in 1798, something called a quasi-war with France, was over freedom of navigation.

The war with the Barbary pirates was about freedom of navigation.

The U.S.

has literally for its entire existence stood for the freedom of navigation.

And since it became the global hegemon,

after 1945.

It has resolutely affirmed and defended that right.

It has put in place huge protocols about it.

And I think it was 1979, Carter put in a whole program for it.

And it gets to this whole idea that the United States has always taken the view that

that it was trying to create the open global economy, the rules-based system, the global commons.

It was trying to provide public goods for everybody, not seek short-term extraction for itself.

And Trump's entire worldview is the antithesis of that.

He hates that idea that America is this benign, long-term hegemon that looks out for the whole system.