Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling
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first heard Dec 2024
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in the last two weeks.
And also, I think one could conclude, because Iran is still using weapons to fire at ships, that they still have a capability.
And they're standing by their end of what they wanted to talk about in the MOU and who controls the Strait.
This is a signal that we still control the strait.
We are still going to threaten ships that have insurance policies, and they're not going to want to go through if we threaten them for fear of damage.
So Tim, the interesting thing is over the last two weeks, I don't see anything having changed.
I've got to be careful in saying this.
What I know is that the president has asked for different courses of action for what to do next.
I'm sure one of those courses of action is let's just leave.
But that's not very viable.
I mean, that's, you know, we kiddingly in the military say whenever you pitch courses of action, there's normally three.
There's a mama bear, papa bear and baby bear.
And one of them isn't going to be acceptable to the in this case, the president.
And I think they've probably pitched a variety of courses of action, of which none of which bring us out of this with any kind of a win.
You and I talked a long time ago about the fact that the best we can get out of this is a draw.
And I don't think that's even the case anymore.
Yeah, I went on MSNOW the night that he did this.
And the anchor asked me, what do you think about this?
And I said, it's wrong, and he will likely be disciplined for it.
And I don't know how that discipline is going to occur, whether it's going to be an admonishment, a court martial, or anything in between.
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