Ian Bremmer
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But Iran is saying, yeah, we're a lot less capable than you are militarily.
You just blew up, blew us up.
But we believe that we can outlast you.
And that you're going to taco eventually because we can cause more pain and we can handle all the people you're killing.
We can handle all the conventional military strikes because we can stop these tankers from going through.
Now, we don't yet know how Trump is going to respond to that.
We don't know.
Maybe he's going to use these troops and he's going to take...
coastal areas and take islands in the Strait and eventually take Karg Island.
And maybe that'll work for him.
Maybe in the medium to long term, the U.S.
will control Iran's oil and the Strait the way they control Venezuela.
Maybe that's what Trump wants.
But that's enormously risky.
It might not work.
It'll cost immensely economically.
And it's going to lead to a lot more Americans getting killed.
He'll make the decision.
It's Trump's decision.
Nobody knows, as Dan said.