Steve Yates
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1,090 appearances
8 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 12 Sep
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So there's some glass half full parts of this.
But as I would acknowledge, I talked with a friend this morning, 20 years ago, we're at the beginning of the Iraq stuff.
And after major military operations, it looked pretty darn good.
And we found a genius way to lose the peace for a better part of 10 years.
Yeah, I can't say you're wrong, but maybe I'm a little too optimistic about this.
I think they did know that this is a point of leverage.
This is going to be a challenge.
That geography, the waterways in the Gulf of Arabia or Persian Gulf, whatever your point of view is on that name,
But that geography is confined.
Of course, the Strait of Hormuz is even more confined.
And then the Strait of Oman is another area.
And Iran has a ton of shoreline along that area and some offshore islands that are vital to the processing and flow of oil and natural gas, theirs and others.
And they've been using some of those islands as choke points to check off whether people have paid the piper, whether they're permitted to go or not.
I basically see a layering of this going on.
The Trump administration has been very clear they want allies who have skin in the game to put some things on the table, that this should not be an America-only kind of thing.
for maritime security in that area.
And freedom of navigation on the high seas is not an America only kind of objective.
Some of our allies, I think, get that.
I think some of our older allies have some soul searching to go through to figure out what
They're going to play by way of a role in the world and they might not play much of a role in the world if they don't figure it out soon.
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