Tucker Carlson

And so Europe, you do it.

And we asked our European allies to get in at the very beginning.

And we're going to leave NATO because they're not backing us up in Iran.

It's not really a real conversation.

Our European allies don't really have militaries and they don't have militaries because their countries have been occupied to one degree or another by the U.S.

military since 1945 at the end of the Second World War.

So they've had not just a defense guarantee through NATO, they've had an actual physical defense against whom?

Russia for a lot of the time.

And so they don't have the capacity to open the strait by force.

And, of course, no one really does have that capacity.

There's no force that can open the strait, only consent.

But even if you believe there were some military answer to this, France and Great Britain and Germany are going to provide that answer.

Spain, Portugal, Belgium.

It's absurd.

It's absurd.

Of course, Trump is not speaking to Europe.

Nobody expects that Europe could or has any interest in sending troops to the Persian Gulf to open the strait.

So who's he speaking to?

Well, practically speaking, there's really only one country on Earth.

with the power, not necessarily the military power, but maybe the power to open the Gulf, to open the strait at the eastern end of the Gulf, let all that oil and gas out.