Tom

West Texas oil was staying well under $100.

And here we are

you know, opened up today, $12 under, and right now $89, sitting there.

So number one, markets are moving radically, Pat, just based on statements from the president.

So if you look at Iran's statement, psychological warfare, the psychological warfare appears to be among ourselves and Wall Street.

We hear something good, it goes bang this way.

We hear something different, it goes bang this way.

That's what's going on on that side.

Now then, why?

The ultimatum, when he extends the ultimatum, now the markets calm down a little bit, and now these markets move positively because they think, oh, there's more time to talk before some really bad stuff could happen.

You mentioned the Tripoli.

The USS Tripoli is in the Arabian Sea right now, and it is within 12 hours of joining the USS Abraham Lincoln right there at the Arabian Sea at Oman, where you are then straight up to the Strait of Hormuz.

And over the yesterday, what the president said was, you know what, we may consider some, you know, boots on the ground operations on Karg Island.

Well, why was he saying that?

Well, because the Tripoli is pulling up in the position that is a that is an invasion ship.

It's got advanced aircraft on it.

Twenty five hundred Marines.

It can do what the big aircraft carriers can't because the big aircraft carriers, they sit back in a protected area and it's a launch.

It's like an airstrip.

You don't want the aircraft carrier in the in the hot theater.