Matthew Schmidt
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357 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Jun 2022
last heard 1 Jul
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You have to wait 30, 40, 50 days and then find some reason to threaten shipping again, right?
Launch a few drones or something like that and just indicate that you're in control.
Because what we don't know, but I don't know any case, is the straight opening up in a way that allows Iran to essentially charge a toll for safe passage.
I think that Netanyahu has to recognize that in the end, bringing Trump in to do what he needed the American military to do that he couldn't do in Iran is going to end up with a strategic loss again because Iran figured out how to link Hezbollah
to the Strait of Hormuz, which gives it, again, a strategic lever point.
Yes.
I think the U.S.
should not have waded into Iran.
And I think it indicates that, you know, we've been talking about this for a long time
in venues like this, which is that the global order is shifting.
And I think you're seeing that this war has really made concrete a lot of that shift away from American power.
It has really shown the limits of what American power can do and can't do inside the system.
It leaves open the question of whether or not China is going to fill that space.
And I don't think American power goes away.
But you have a situation now where Europe is looking at America and saying, who are we now with the Americans less involved in NATO?
You have a situation where, you know, the US is more preeminent in the Western Hemisphere than it has been.
And then you have, of course, China, you know, sitting there thinking, what do we do in our area of the world now?
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We were around 65 at the time starting, and now we're north of 200.
We own our own construction company now as of June of 21.
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