Tom Bilyeu
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And it doesn't work.
And that really riles me up.
I won't be able to answer that question until the actual negotiated peace comes out.
But if the war were to end right now today, this would be an unmitigated disaster for the United States.
If we walk out of this right now, all we have done is reassert that
if we say we're going to do something, we're going to do it.
Now, that that isn't nothing.
That is a big thing on the world stage.
People understand between Venezuela and Iran, if we say we're going to do it, we're going to do it under Trump.
But the world also knows that if you just wait out Trump, the odds you get another Trump are effectively zero.
And so you're going to be back to who knows what kind of deterrence position in the future.
So there is always that uncertainty with the way that America operates.
Now, if the Strait of Hormuz goes from open but like everybody's tense about it to everybody's paying a $2 million fee, I think that that is much worse for the world.
And so I'll be very interested to see what happens in the long run with people like the UAE, Saudi Arabia.
Do they just shrug it off and go, OK, whatever, this is fine?
Do they use this as a jumping off point to do like what Saudi is doing and building other pipelines that go to other means of distribution?
So across land to another sea or just across land so that in the GCC countries and maybe all the way to Israel that they're just literally piping the oil.
That's certainly possible.
So in the long run, things will find a balance again.
But I think right now we have done an extraordinary job of alienating our allies and