Saagar Enjeti
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military went into this campaign unilaterally with Israel with a singular objective, unconditional surrender, the decapitation of the Iranian regime, a replacement of that regime, a reopening, recontrol of the Straits of Hormuz.
At one point,
We floated a reinsurance scheme backed by the United States and the United States Navy sailing freely through the Strait.
Now, after over a month, there is now an effective declaration.
Trump says, well, we have actually changed the regime because we killed the original Ayatollah.
Now, we have a new Ayatollah whose father was murdered and his brother and his wife.
I mean, can't even go through the list of family members.
The guy who had the fatwa against nuclear weapons, he's gone.
The hardline IRGC is all in control.
The Straits of Hormuz is under Iranian control.
who is allowing selectively certain ships that were either Pakistani or Chinese or any country which is willing to make a deal with them.
They passed a piece of legislation yesterday in their parliament saying that they have officially approved a toll program, almost like the Egyptians, in the control of the Suez crisis.
And then Trump comes in and he says that we are basically will be done because you didn't join us.
So first of all, it was a war of choice.
It's not like we needed anybody.
Allegedly, we were told we could do this all by ourselves.
We didn't necessarily need anyone to come in
We blew up the global economy, quite literally.
We're going to tell everybody just in the one month of what it looks like.
Asia, 80% of oil from through the Straits of Hormuz goes to Asia.