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The naval ships are gone.

All of that, not to mention the military leadership, has been killed.

All of that has dramatically weakened Iran's ability to kill others.

As for the Strait of Hormuz, President Trump made a clear and direct threat.

If you do not open the Strait, we will bomb your power plants and we will bomb your bridges.

Now, Democrats had a conniption fit.

They said it is a war crime to bomb power plants.

Now, in our last podcast that we did on Wednesday,

We went through the Pentagon Manual on Warfare that makes very explicit that power plants, civilian power plants, are legitimate military targets because they're integral to the military defense of a nation.

They power communication, they power the military system, and so they have long been treated as legitimate military targets under the rules of war.

Of course, that doesn't stop the corporate media.

That doesn't stop the Democrats from screaming war crime.

But, Ben, it's worth underscoring.

Why did President Trump threaten the power plants and the bridges?

The obvious thing to threaten, the thing that would be the most devastating to Iran, is to threaten the oil infrastructure, to threaten the refineries, to threaten Karg Island, which is the main point, the main terminal through which oil is exported.

If the United States bombed the oil infrastructure in Iran,

it would utterly cripple their economy that is the vast majority of the revenue that the iranian iranian government receives that the iranian people receive is is revenue from selling oil and if we bomb those facilities it would be devastating to the iranian economy why does trump not want to do it well quite sensibly because when this military conflict is over

Iran presumably is going to need to rebuild.

It's not going to be American taxpayers who rebuild.

We're not going to rebuild at all.