Tommy Vitor

Not a winning one.

Yeah.

So this plan, it's not the Navy ships are physically escorting other ships to the Strait of Hormuz.

Guiding you sounds like we'll give you directions and wish you luck.

Yeah.

Like, right, based on what happened today, because they're calling it a coordination effort to guide ships with real-time information, safety guidance, and coordination.

So, like, I don't know, GPS?

What is this?

So, but as we saw today, Iran is very willing to take shots at these vessels.

They're willing to take shots at other targets in the region.

The Pentagon can't guarantee that the Strait of Hormuz isn't mined.

So it seems like, once again, more of a PR effort.

They roll out over the weekend ahead of markets on Monday.

But it didn't work this time because the price of gasoline shot up again yesterday.

The average price is at $4.50 per gallon now in the U.S., but you've seen analysts say there could be a break at some point pretty soon in the global economy and get us to $7 or $8 a gallon.

So we just seem stuck here.

There's a lot of troops stuck in the Gulf trying to figure out what's next.

Iran is not going to backtrack.

The bet seems to be that we can create enough pain for Iran that they buckle and they capitulate.

I still think that's a flawed strategy because the IRGC doesn't give a shit about their own people and they have all the guns.