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“Um and uh one thing to think about, I mean, Trump does keep talking about the fact that he wants to take the oil. Um and he certainly doesn't want boots on the ground long term. So, uh maybe, uh what he's thinking about is seizing, uh Carg Island, which is, um where the Iranians, uh export some 80 to 90% of all of their oil.”
“Now uh they've backed away from regime change. Uh so it clearly doesn't seem that what they're trying what they're thinking about is um a way to insert special forces or whatnot to try to uh secure or bring about um a new government.”
“It's its navy um is uh mostly gone at this point. um and its air defense systems are mostly gone... there is command and control, but it's local senior commanders that are leading uh the response right now and and calling on the strikes.”
“But the question I think is how durable are these deals? How real are these deals? because in that rush to get these deals out, um there really are just not many details. It certainly hasn't been ratified by the Congress and you're already seeing governments take a bit of a step back and slow walk all of these details.”
“As Ian Bremer posted on X, when it comes to Americans, only 36% approve this war against Iran.”