Nat Towsen

No, no, no, that's over.

There was always an understanding that as long as the... At least until recently, still something of a norm.

Yeah, this is completely new to him.

His lack of militarism in the past destroyed yet.

No, yeah, this is completely... This was still generally considered the standard.

Okay.

And I want to ask about that in just a second, but just to recap, if you can, if you just correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like what you're saying to me is that Iran is doubling down on this strategy that we've talked about in recent weeks, where obviously they don't have the scale of military force that the U.S.

has, but they realize that

in order to inflict harm on the U.S., in order to maintain control, they don't necessarily need to overpower us.

They need to let the U.S.

burn out its resources and maintain the situation long enough that it becomes inconvenient and expensive for the U.S.

to continue to do this.

And as we've discussed before, we haven't even felt all the economic impacts that are going to come from this yet.

So this is essentially their new strategy, and they are

they're doubling down and continuing to strengthen their power that way.

Absolutely.

And well, let's take a moment to talk about how this is affecting because we're talking some of this is.

the Iran is guaranteed, you know, banking on this affecting not only Americans, but American citizens.

How is this?

I know a lot of Americans are paying a lot of the pump these days.