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and insisted that the first few days of attacks would disable the Iranians to the point where they would not be able to threaten the Strait of Hormuz.

And everybody just accepted that at face value.

And obviously, that has been a huge mistake.

And this has now become the biggest issue that needs to be sorted out between Iran and the United States.

And it wasn't even an issue before the war began.

As a result, you've got all of this confusion coming from Donald Trump, who says one thing one day, another the next, because he wants to declare victory.

He wants to get out of this.

He wants this to be over so that oil prices can go back to normal.

You won't see price rises here in the United States ahead of elections later next year.

This is not doing him any political good at all.

The hostility is continuing, but...

As this kind of thing happens, and as Iran is able to block ships in the Strait of Hormuz, he can't say that it's a total victory and walk away because it's no kind of victory yet.

So I think that illustrates for you the political mess he's got himself into because of the military mess that there is in the Strait.

well, some of the most viral content about the war has tended to be the rage bait style content, often coming from government accounts themselves, whether that's from the US, you know, White House accounts and otherwise, or whether that's coming from Iran, official accounts in Iran.

And it's, I mean, particularly the Iranian content recently, like people might have seen those Lego videos where you've got like versions of what's going on in the war and in the US cabinet and various other places in the form of Lego characters.

I think that the thing that's interesting is

You've got quite a lot of left wing American accounts sharing the rage bait content saying this is actually quite funny and I'm not very keen on Donald Trump and the people in his team and I'm critical of the war.

And or you've got people from who are supportive of Donald Trump and MAGA who are kind of trying to share the US equivalent of that rage bait.

So you've got this kind of rage bait off occurring.

When it comes to actually the average person, so that's who we're talking about here.