Wayne Sanders

It's either because you're looking at creating one last final blow, where I use the phrase of bombing back to the Stone Age, and then here it's coming out in that context right now.

Or the alternative of that is it would be in a protracted conflict perspective.

The U.S.

struck Kashim Island, that being one of the areas on inside of the Strait of Hormuz towards the opening.

We had talked about potentially some of the scenarios being that they would seize Karg Island and others with the ground troops.

So there definitely seems to be some mixed messaging here.

I think that it's still being able to say, hey, look, we can do the following things.

And then Iran did the same, right?

They have obviously escalated as well, hitting a Kuwaiti oil tanker.

So both sides are still trying to position themselves as best they can for any type of negotiating.

if they're trying to do that.