Tucker Carlson

beyond its shores, and maybe aircraft carriers and the whole suite of weapons systems, the most expensive in the world, aren't really the way to project military power because it doesn't work.

And they can be defeated or at least constrained at a thousandth the cost by less technologically advanced countries like Iran.

But that would be a very obvious conclusion.

In fact, that was the conclusion of any smart, non-aligned person for the last five years.

Is it really worth having an aircraft carrier if you have to open the Straits of Hormuz?

Maybe not.

Well, apparently not.

But we have been unable to have that conversation because...

The vested players in the whole economic chain coming from the United States Congress through the Pentagon and out to, well, the entire economy of Northern Virginia has discouraged it.

So we've continued to do the same thing the same way, except at a higher volume for a very long time.

And now we are seeing the results, which are embarrassing.

And we actually can tell ourselves we're the strongest military in the world.

And you want to be the strongest military in the world because that's great.

But if you are the strongest military in the world, why can't you force Iran to open the bottleneck at the end of the Persian Gulf and let vitally needed commodities out to the rest of the world, including you?

Like, if you're so powerful, why can't you get it done?

And so what we've learned is we're really not as powerful as we said we were and probably as we thought we were.

And that's bad for us, but it's also dangerous because it invites aggression.

We need to fix that by being honest about what just happened.

No more lying.

We should learn something from what is happening right now.