Rudyard Griffiths

We are frozen into this dynamic of a shuttered

energy artery for the world, which the International Energy Agency has already said a few weeks ago, Andrew, would be the single biggest energy shock in modern history.

But I guess what I'm wondering is going down with the ship is something we don't want to contemplate.

But sometimes that happens.

And I guess I'm wondering if we're in a kind of down with the ship moment here with this president, this presidency, his inability seemingly...

to make either a decisive capitulation, which would be one off-ramp, or, I don't know, escalate to de-escalate.

At least it would be a way out of this kind of false state, this false dichotomy that there are meaningful choices ahead.

It's a bad TV show, so we're not interested in it.

Or uncertain.

It's not clear whether the Iranians necessarily feel that the Chinese will determine their range of action and their scope of options.

I think that's a question to be determined.

But we will continue to determine it with you.

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