Konstantin Kisin
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And most of the impact hasn't been felt.
So what's happening at the moment is it's like there's no more food in the supermarket, but your fridge is still mostly stocked.
So you are still able to eat for now.
And what we're doing now is we're running down our gas supplies.
We're running down our oil supplies around the West.
And by the way, no one talks about this, but I think it's worth raising as an issue, is the direct result of the war in Iran, both the United States and Britain and many other countries have lifted sanctions on Russia.
Like that has impact.
I don't know if you saw this.
The United States just said that they would not be providing interceptors to Taiwan to be able to defend itself in the quantity that they were going to because they need them for the Strait of Hormuz.
They need them for the Middle East.
They need them for the... This is a thing that's not over and it's going to continue to have an impact to say nothing about the fact that you missed one planting season with fertilizer issues.
That means less food next year.
And that's where we are today.
Ted Cruz, who we had on our show, who said this will be over very quickly, blah, blah, blah.
You know, if this is still going on by the time of the midterms, we've clearly failed.
He's now warning that President Trump may be, from what I read, kind of caving too early on these negotiations.
And so Trump is now extending it and whatever.
But my point is,
All those people who were delighted about the ceasefire several weeks ago, I don't hear from them now.
And the longer this goes, the less convinced I am that the people who cheered this war on from the beginning were right.