Shelby Holliday

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has acknowledged that adversaries hinting at Russia and China have been helping them with satellite imagery and intelligence.

So I am really curious to see if things escalate from here or if we just go back to status quo, the air war over Iran, thousands of targets hit.

The biggest point of confusion that President Trump tried to clear up during his speech seemed to be about the timeline of the war.

He went out of his way to allay fears that the U.S.

is being dragged into a prolonged conflict and that U.S.

troops could be tied up in Iran for months or maybe even years.

He laid out the timelines for other previous wars, which I found to be interesting.

And then he said, we've only been in Iran for 32 days.

He did not address in any way whether the U.S.

would try to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz or whether the U.S.

would lead convoys of ships to get the flow of oil moving again.

Obviously, those efforts would keep the U.S.

troops over there for months, and that could be quite a lift militarily.

One of the other things I found to be interesting is he gave the Gulf countries a big shout out.

And I wasn't sure if that meant militarily, their infrastructure has been hit by missiles and drones and they've been attacked, or if it meant economically, because these countries export a lot of oil, most of their oil, through the Gulf and out of the Strait of Hormuz.

The Gulf countries are very nervous that the U.S.

could, you know, declare that mission is accomplished.

They leave the region.

The Strait of Hormuz remains shut down or effectively controlled by Iran.

And then their oil exports are held hostage.