Josh Gay

You know, the talks that Donald Trump said were done in the same war where Pete Hegseth stood at the podium at the Pentagon this week and declared Operation Epic Fury an overwhelming victory.

Capital V victory, he said.

I mean, Trump has said...

publicly that this was a total and complete victory.

100% no question about it.

But let's look at what total victory for us looks like.

Sure, 2,000 Iranians are dead.

Over 250 of those are kids.

We've lost 13 American service members.

The U.S.

struck 13,000 targets over 40 days.

We did cripple their naval fleet.

We crippled a lot of their weapons factories, wiped out a lot but not all of their air defense.

We took out Iran's supreme leader.

So on paper, you could say it looks like we won.

But wars aren't won on paper because Iran now controls the Strait of Hormuz, where 20% of the world's oil and gas flows through that strait.

And now Iran is going to be charging a $2 million per ship transit fee.

Before the war, just a little reminder, the strait was open, open to international shipping.

And now Iran gets to play gatekeeper collecting tolls.

They have significant leverage over the entire world's oil market.