Mark Gagnon

So it is wild, though.

It's also good diplomacy on the end of these Middle Eastern countries, the Saudis and the Bahrainis and the Emiratis.

They did a good job of brokering deals with the West to basically be like, hey, you guys can outpower us, but you don't want to destroy these oil fields, right?

You can come and fight it, but let's just be cool and we'll hook you guys up on the back end.

But it's just crazy.

It's a wild thing.

It's going to be interesting to see how this develops.

Yeah, I don't know.

It's just wild seeing how the global economy is affected by these shocks, you know?

Like you shut down the straight or you make it unstable, and all of a sudden everyone's money gets messed up, and then everyone's like, hey, can we stop with this?

And people are not happy.

So it's also interesting from Iran's perspective that they don't have to be –

the best military, they can just be disruptive enough, which is kind of what they've been doing through their funding of these proxy groups and terror in the region, stuff like that, that they're able to create enough pressure and instability that people don't really want to be involved, which is my understanding of why the UAE and Saudi are in alignment with America to get rid of Iran's current regime, because they're like, hey, we want to develop here, we want to build here, we want American money, we want...

to develop Abu Dhabi and Riyadh to be big tourism centers.

And the fact that Iran is against that and that the Ayatollah is putting pressure on that and that they're funding these other groups and the IRGC is causing problems, it's messing up our money.

They got to go.

So there's a lot of alignment with the United States in the region to

make a regime change.

Unfortunately, it's American lives are gonna be lost and it's gonna be your neighbors and my family members and people like that that are actually gonna have to pay the consequence for this, which is unfair.

Why do we always send the poor?