Mark Montgomery

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397 appearances 8 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 29 Aug

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The President's Daily Brief · PDB Situation Report | June 5th, 2026: Trump Faces A New Crisis In Iran & Russia's Massive Kyiv Strike · 6 Jun 2026 podcast

Right.

So, you know, he's not taking that same level of he's misjudging, I think, their ability to to their resilience on this.

So look, and what you see happening is they'll fire and we'll fire back just proportionately.

We are not escalating.

And that's for the exact reason you cited, which is that Trump does not want this to escalate into full-scale combat operations.

So we're being very careful to do a proportionate counterattack against the place that fired the weapons into Kuwait or United Arab Emirates or wherever, or against our ships.

Now, were they to actually hit our ships or to do significant critical infrastructure damage to one of those countries, I think we would then conduct a disproportionate attack, and it could very easily escalate to full-scale military operations, which is why Trump wants to get a deal soon.

Yeah.

Well, I think that's what we were hoping for.

And honestly, if you had asked me two weeks ago, how much longer do you have to do this?

I'd have thought only three or four more weeks of of the blockade.

But now, as I sit here today, I think it's still three or four more weeks.

I'd have to move a little bit because I just don't see the indications of a of a country in economic breakdown.

Right.

So, look, the real the deal here is they're trying to get the best possible deal out of Trump right now.

And they're trying to you know, they're pushing against it.

That's why he's frustrated.

And they're probably going to end up getting some kind of I believe will use the twenty five billion and held funds as some kind of lubricant.

to get a Hormuz for blockade deal, where we both kind of acknowledge they control the Straits of Hormuz through geography, we control it through naval power.

So in reality, no one controls it.

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