Krystal Ball
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Obviously, France, and by the way, in Japan, again, not that anybody over here cares at all, all of these people, but Japan, South Korea, the countries probably most affected, U.S.
trading partners and U.S.
allies by this crisis who are freaking out, having currency problems, and whose presidents, I mean, just this morning, the South Korean president
Remember we played last show, how he was like, I can't sleep at night?
This morning he's like, or I guess nighttime, his time.
He's like, everyone please don't drive.
If you can please take public transportation, do so.
He said something like, please save every scrap of oil that you can.
That's how bad things are getting over there.
What are they going to do when Iran comes and says, hey, pay up?
They're going to pay it.
And this is the big problem for the United States.
Are we going to sanction South Korea?
Are we going to sanction Japan, France, Germany, the UK, all of these other countries, which are basically and emphatically saying, we are not getting into this mess with you.
We may clean it up, but we're not going to clean it up on your terms.
That's the problem.
Let's put C2 up there on the screen, too.
Trump is threatening to stop weapons for Ukraine unless Europe joins the Hormuz coalition.
And by that, again, let's be very clear, he doesn't mean a diplomatic Hormuz coalition.
He means a military campaign.