Gregg Carlstrom
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Sep
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yesterday.
That would invite reciprocal attacks, though, on Gulf states.
It might also be a war crime.
It could try to deploy ground troops to seize islands in the Strait of Hormuz or to the Iranian coast, the mainland.
But doing that, I think, is a political nonstarter in Washington.
There would be a lot of opposition to it, and there's no guarantee it actually works.
Iran can just keep attacking ships from further inland because it has missiles and drones with relatively long ranges.
Reinstating the blockade of Hormuz, which Trump has done, may be less fraught than ground troops or larger bombing.
It brings us back to this economic staring contest to see which side blinks first.
But there's no guarantee Iran accepts it this time.
Iran might decide to escalate and start attacking Gulf states.
And that puts Trump then in a bit of a bind.
So his military options, there's no guarantee that they're going to succeed.
In fact, they probably won't.
And there's nowhere else he can look for help.
No one is that enthusiastic about contributing to a multilateral mission.
So again, it's a menu of mostly bad options here for the Americans.
I think first we should remember, as always, that this is Donald Trump.
And so it's entirely possible that one week he calls the Iranians scum and the next week he calls them very wonderful people.
And he's very happy to negotiate a deal with them.
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