Steve Bannon

Captain Fennell, thank you so much.

Look forward to having you back on, sir.

Great analysis.

Sam Faddis, your closing thoughts on this on day 39.

Sam, you've done such a good job being so even-handed.

It looks like the Iranians are so over the top, it would lead one to believe that the balloon may go up again.

Am I too far off base in saying that?

In Americans' national security strategy,

since really the beginning of this republic.

And I realize we've become an imperial power all over the globe.

One of the central underlyings that we assumed, and this is what about the end of the dollar empire at Bretton Woods.

Once the Royal Navy and the British pound couldn't do it, the Americans stepped in at the end of World War II.

But free navigation has been a central, central, central.

Look at World War I, look at World War II, the Pacific, all of it.

How big a deal?

Because people say, well, hey, it's a couple million bucks.

If you look at the thing, it doesn't matter.

It's not about the money.

It's not about even how bad this is, which is terrible, paying it in Chinese currency instead of petrodollars.

It is the very concept that a collection of pirates, which they are, and theocrats could actually set up a tollbooth