Joe Kent

Every time there's a ceasefire, the Israelis do everything they can to break the ceasefire.

And the Iranians are squeezing international energy, and they know that gives them leverage.

So I think the president is going to be told, hey, sir, the blockade is working.

Just give it more time.

The problem there is that the Iranians can endure much more pain than we can.

There's a major risk then of the Iranians taking a shot at one of our ships in the region, which again starts that cycle all over again.

The hardliners in Iran, the IRGC, I think they almost prefer that outcome because the more that we fight, the more emboldened they are.

the more the population rallies around them.

So us staying there in that region I think is just a massive mistake.

I truly hope that the president also understands that if he wants the blockade to work, even if the status quo is to work, he's got to do more to restrain the Israelis.

The Israelis are doing everything they can to light Lebanon back on fire, which the Iranians didn't have a lot of control over before this war, but now they do, and they're playing that card.

So this is a situation that we've created –

But now we have to restrain Israel and it's got to be more than just like we put out a truth social post.

We actually have to take away features of their military, the military aid that we give them so they know that we are serious and we're not going to let them dictate terms or drive the direction that our country is taking.

Yeah.

Clearly, it hasn't been worth it.

I mean, we've lost 13 American service members.

They did not need to die for this.

But also just in terms of our alliances in the Gulf, there has been this illusion for decades now that the Gulf states can be our partners and partner with us and they don't need to have much of a defense system because we will be there.

Their security guarantees will provide all their defenses.