Shawn Ryan

So I would take them at their word, and I would just say, no, you're not, because we're paying for all of this.

and we have to restrain them.

And I know a lot of people are gonna be very, very frustrated when I say that, because there are people who really like Israel.

And I'm not saying, like, you cut off Israel, you know, you, whatever.

I'm not saying any of that.

I'm saying you take away their, the resources that they have right now to go on the offense.

Make it so Israel can only defend themselves.

That's fine.

But they can't go on the offense anymore.

Once we do that and once we restrain the Israelis, then I think we have a place where we can use our allies in the Gulf, we can use the Omanis, the Qataris, et cetera, to get the Iranians to come to the table and come up with a way that we can reopen the Straits of Hormuz.

I think we're gonna need to say to the Iranians, okay, we need to lift sanctions on some of their oil.

We have to give them something.

So I think lifting the sanctions and letting them get a lot of their oil introduced back into the world market

I think that's actually a pretty good carrot to get them to the table.

And that's also going to help lower the price at the pump and get more oil and petrochemicals flowing for the fertilizer and everything else that the world needs in terms of energy.

But again, step one is restraining the Israelis.

That's the only way I can see out of this.

And look, we're going to have to make some concessions.

We're going to have to say, hey, we'll work with whoever is there in Iran.

We're going to have to give them red lines that might need to be enforced every now and again.