Stephen K. Bannon

Yeah, the Straits of Hormuz are the center of gravity.

And the question is, it will remain closed and it will remain under the control or influence of the IRGC for a long, long time.

Their ability to inflict pain on any vessel

transiting there will remain extremely high.

Even if you take the first 50 or 100 miles of the Straits of Hormuz, they can still launch and smash commercial vessels.

There haven't been any commercial vessels attacked or mines, apparently.

Yeah, because they haven't been trying to transit.

Any vessels that are transiting are now being forced through a narrow channel

Not through the normal shipping channel, but through the toll gate erected by the Iranians going between Larek and Keshem Islands.

So you're right.

The center of gravity is the Straits of Hormuz.

That is basically the pulled grenade pin they have against the rest of the world economy.

When you have all of East Asia's economies going on severe fuel rationing now, 30% of the world's fertilizer supply, 22% of the gas, 20% of the crude,

that's supposed to pass through the Straits of Hormuz largely is not, other than the ones solely authorized by the IRGC, like to their friends, the Chinese Communist Party.

The first thing you're supposed to learn when you join the U.S.

Navy is power projection, choke point control.

We now, the U.S.

Navy does not control two choke points in the world.

This is bad.

other choke point being the uh gated tears down there at the red sea off where the hooties are hang on one second eric hang around uh captain finnell uh your assessment of this situation in the strait of her moves and uh and all the way up to karg island your your assessment well i there's no question and it is it is an important the the point that you've all said and i'm not disagreeing with that fundamentally the question is how do you open it