Jon Lovett

Nobody does because we're not entirely in charge of when it ends.

But at the very least, they made their huge midterm problem worse.

Yeah, I think they're probably managed to calm oil speculators and future sales and traders in the near term.

But like nothing is solved in the long term.

Right.

I mean, again, we killed the new supreme leader's father, wife, mother and son.

He's probably pretty pissed off.

We killed half the IRGC.

We don't really know.

Who's going to be in charge of the military?

And so Iran has a say in this.

And if they want to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed, they can do so.

If they want to keep firing off weapons at the Saudis, they can do so.

And ultimately, the producers in Iraq and Kuwait and other places, they're running out of places to store the oil.

If they have to fully stop pumping from the wells, it can take a really long time to get the wells back pumping again.

And sometimes the wells never stop.

return to their original form because they get stopped up with minerals and shit and lose pressure and whatever else.

And so maybe he solved the problem, but we don't really know that.

Do you see the IRGC put out a statement saying that any country can now use the Strait of Hormuz as long as they kick out their American and Israeli ambassadors?

Any European.