Isaac Saul

The use of the word Orwellian has been so overused that it now has lost all of its meaning.

And when there are moments like this where it's so applicable, where they're just –

I mean, Hegseth is answering a direct question about the fact that we are currently exchanging fire with Iranian forces and just says the ceasefire is on.

This is a separate project.

I mean, like we have to be discerning enough here to just say, come on, this is bullshit.

And and that's what I would say to my audience and my readers is just they can't.

just declare that a conflict is done while we're actively engaged in the conflict.

And one of the core things that we need to happen now, because we're all experiencing this here in the States, is this oil shock, is we need to free up the Strait of Hormuz, which again was open before the war started.

And there's simply no way Trump is walking away from the table without that.

Whatever you think of Trump, he is politically shrewd enough to know that if he goes into November with gas prices at $5 a gallon, he's going to get obliterated.

And they have to do something about that.

So I don't think we're close to being done with this.

I think my fear, the way that I sort of –

Talked about it early on was my fear was that we would have an ambient war, this kind of conflict that was background noise, where every few weeks there'd be some huge flare up, some news story.

Meanwhile, we're pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into it every month.

And then it goes on for two years with the occasional troop death and lots of money spent and not much progress.

And we seem to be heading that way right now.

Like they are trying to make it this thing that's not the center story that's happening in the background.

And I hope Americans are keen to it because to me, the ambient war is really the big threat.

It's like the conflict is on.