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Trump: Negotiations Are OVER! Full Scale Bombing Resumes! · Combat Veteran News

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President Trump has said that the war
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with Iran is resuming, as strikes are
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going to be ramping up as Iran backs
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away from negotiations. Just why does
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the president think this is the only
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option left to him? And more
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importantly, what do the markets think
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this means for the US economy? Let's
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talk about it. So, President Trump in a
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White House press conference has said
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that if no peace deal is finalized,
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which by the way, the US has been about
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to finalize a peace deal for at least
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the last two months. Uh the President
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Trump has said that the United States is
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going to attack Iran very hard and
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announced bizarrely that he has been
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taking oil out of Iran. Quote, "We're
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going to be attacking them. Attacking
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them very hard." Uh Trump told
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reporters,
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"President said again, Iran will be hit
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on Wednesday." Now, usually in military
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operations, that's not what you do. You
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don't usually give the enemy a specific
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timetable. Uh you don't tell them, "Hey,
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we're going to start bombing you now."
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Unless, of course, you're in
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negotiations. And it's a negotiation
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tactic, which is not unheard of by any
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stretch. But Trump also said, "I'm
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announcing today for the first time, but
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we've been taking out millions of
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barrels of oil, millions of barrels
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every night." saying that Iran quote
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just figured it out. He continued,
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quote, "Millions of barrels of oil has
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come out. That's why it's 85.90 a barrel
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instead of 250." Saying sharing no other
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details about the operation. Now, this I
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have no idea what he could be talking
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about. Um, it's not even clear that this
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is really the case. This may involve
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allowing Iran to sell oil or something.
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This is an incredibly bizarre claim
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because it's again not really clear
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other than over land routes how Iran can
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even extract oil. I think maybe he might
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be referring to occasional seizures of
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Iranian oil tankers and then maybe he
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thinks he's seizing the oil and forcing
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the sale of it. But as we see here uh
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from in Sentcom video um they are
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currently disabling some ships that try
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to flee striking the engines and that
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maybe the plan then is to seize the oil
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and sell it for a profit for the United
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States. I think that's possible but
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again probably not to the tune of uh
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millions of barrels of oil a day. Um,
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I mean, Iran in a total year, well, I
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guess that's true. 4 million barrels a
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day is what it produced, but that took
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160 uh ships going through the straight
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to do. So, it's not clear again where
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they think this additional millions of
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barrels a day comes from. It's just
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plain old weird and bizarre. Now,
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the
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deeper problem here is that the United
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States is effectively saying, "Listen,
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even telling Fox News, they think that
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the Iranians have been quote tapping the
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United States along and that President
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Trump has announced the plan is actually
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to commit war crimes, targeting Iranian
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power plants and bridges." Uh, when it
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comes to drawn out negotiations, the US
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launched overnight strikes in Iran after
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an Apache helicopter was downed. Um, but
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Trump also revealed some new details
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about the incident. I mean, read this
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because it is too weird. Trump said an
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Iranian drone became lodged between the
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helicopters two pilots as they
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maneuvered to avoid an explosion.
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I am so confused.
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What What do you mean the drone became
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lodged between two pilots? I mean, I I
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want to show you guys uh like where the
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pilots sit on an Apache because
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I don't really know what he's talking
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about by I mean, here's one of them and
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here's the other. That implies that the
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drone lodged itself right here.
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Like maybe they mean shrapnel from an
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exploding drone. In which case though,
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if you were hit with shrapnel from a
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drone that explodes,
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you were you were shot down by the
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drone. I I don't know what you think is
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happening
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like that that what do you think an a
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missile is like? Yes, there is a very
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close to the explosive there is actual
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concussive force that can kill somebody
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100%. But the primary thing that
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destroys equipment or kills people in an
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explosion is the shrapnel it produces.
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And those zip out. It's one of the
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reasons why body armor works so well.
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Body armor doesn't stop concussive
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blasts. It catches shrapnel and and
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debris that fly at a high speed and
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shred human beings. Uh so it's it seems
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like it's a little bit sounds almost
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like Trump talking about ur uranium dust
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when he's really means uranium
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hexafflloride gas.
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It's not dust. And if you told someone
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who actually understands uh how nuclear
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power plants or or nuclear controls
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work, they're going to look at you like
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you're an idiot. And just like we're
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looking at the president right now and
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he's like a drone lodged itself between
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the two pilots when they dodge an
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explosion from a different drone.
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It's so so bizarre.
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Uh and it's troubling actually when they
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start to say things that are nonsensical
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even in reference to themselves.
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Now I think before we talk about the
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implications of all this, there's not
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so one, Trump is saying the Iranian
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military is a complete and total mess.
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This is from um 703 this morning. He
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says, "Much of it, it like their navy
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and air force doesn't even exist
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anymore. They've been completely
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defeated. Iran is all talk and no
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action. The bully of the Middle East is
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dead. They've taken too long to
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negotiate a deal that should have been
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great for them. Now they'll pay the
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price." Now, here's what I want to point
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out is that he said, "Now you're going
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to pay the price." But now it's at 7 in
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the morning and he just gave a press
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conference an hour ago that said, "Well,
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if they don't reach a deal, we're going
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to strike them." Again, the difference
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is tremendous. But also, I I want to
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point out that a defeated nation has
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closed the straight of Hormuz uh and has
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just downed a $30 million Apache
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helicopter. It's probably unfair to
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describe them as defeated. If if that is
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defeat, then that means that the Taliban
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was defeated for 20 straight years. that
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the Iraqi insurgency was defeated for a
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decade and a half.
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The definition of defeat has to be
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changed to reflect this.
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Then Trump says the fake news media
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refused to report how effective the US
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naval blockade is, which is just untrue.
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It's totally effective. It just hasn't
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reopened the straight of Hormuz.
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He says nothing gets through unless we
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want it to. It's a steel wall. Yeah,
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that's what a naval blockade is. Says
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Iran is doing zero business. not paying
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their military or any of their bills and
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quickly becoming a failed nation. He
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says lots of oil though, he adds, is
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getting out. Praise to Allah, which is
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confusing. Again, this alludes to some
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kind of oil scheme. Um, which we can
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only speculate on what that could be.
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Now, Trump claims that one of the
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reasons that we haven't seen this
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massive oil spike is because the US has
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been allowing oil to pass through, maybe
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selling seized oil. That's my best guess
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is the US is seizing oil and selling it
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because that's something we've we've
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that's been well documented and then
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that's one of the reasons why oil is
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trading at only 94 barrels u dollars a
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barrel. Uh this is by the way um Brent
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which is considered the international
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standard. Uh the US standard is also
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trading in the 90s at 91 a barrel. Still
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dramatically higher by WTI again has has
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been trading generally trading cheaper.
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You can see it here uh hitting a low
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about 55 in December of this year. Uh so
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again it was kind of steadily inclining
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and then ripped from 55 again to 91. Not
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a great turn of events.
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However,
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the there's a couple of speculative
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reasons for this. Nobody I think really
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can say definitively, but it's also
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because China has been drawing from its
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strategic petroleum reserve as have
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other nations. Um, a lot of nations have
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intentionally reduced their demand,
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particularly developing nations that
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well are sensitive to prices. And you
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can see here that when you look at Poly
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Market, which attempts to forecast the
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WTI price, it actually says that there's
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about a 50/50 chance that WTI will cross
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100 $100 a barrel, rising another 10%
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from its current price level sometime
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this month. And well, when we uh ask
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why, well, you can see it's fairly
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clear. Uh the odds of the straight of
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Hormuz traffic returning to normal by
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June 30th, the end of this month is
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continuing to tank. In fact, the
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president's statements of the resumption
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of hostilities. Now, the forecasted odds
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are just 9%. Now, even if you look at
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July 31st, you can see those same odds
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have been tanking as well with there
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being basically a 75% chance that the
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straight of Hormuz traffic remains
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restricted till June 31st. Again, this
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is sort of comical to be like it's not
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working. No one's arguing that the
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blockade isn't a blockade, but it's not
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doing the the most important thing,
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which is extracting concessions from the
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Iranians that we know of. Now, the
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annoying part is is that it's very
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possible that it absolutely is
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extracting concessions from the
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Iranians. But
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the the problem is that the Iranians are
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like, "Listen, the one thing we can't
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concede on is you have to stop Israel."
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And as discussed,
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Trump himself has admitted that Israel
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has repeatedly sabotaged the peace
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process. In fact, 39 minutes ago,
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Netanyahu addressed the people of
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Lebanon, and I swear to God, this is
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real. He says, "Seize your future. Join
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Israel. build safety and prosperity for
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all your children. And once Hezbollah is
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dismantled, the possibilities are
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endless and skyhigh.
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Now, I'm not a fan of Hezbollah, but um
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I'm pretty sure Lebanon wants to be
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Lebanon. And frankly, joining Israel if
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the Lebanese are like, "Why on earth
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would we ever join a country that is
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going to Gaza us?" Like, we saw what you
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did to Gaza. In what parallel universe
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are we going to join that experiment?
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Like that's truly one of the most insane
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things I've ever heard.
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And
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when you see stuff like this plus again
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the scale of this operation again I mean
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look at the number of strikes that
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happened
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in the last four hours alone.
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Lebanese the Lebanese president said
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quote we are doing stems from one goal
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to stop the attack secure Israel's
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withdrawal facilitate the return of our
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displaced persons and prisoners deploy
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the army to the south and ensure it
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alone assumes responsibility for
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security and reconstruction so Lebanese
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are like Israel you have to go home you
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have to stop this go back to your
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country again as discussed nobody's
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saying Israel doesn't have the right to
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defend itself it just doesn't have the
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right to invade their neighbors it'd be
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like America saying we're going to stop
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mass migration by invading Mexico it's
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not it's not really how this works. You
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don't get to invade you right back.
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But you can see in the last just 24
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hours, you're looking at dozens and I
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mean I mean dozens of strikes.
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And so maybe the Iranians and the
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Americans are close to an agreement. But
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the United States is unwilling to do the
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most simple and important thing which is
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tell Israel
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no. And not just it's not enough to say
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it. Right. As to as we've seen, asking
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politely doesn't really work. What has
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to happen is there has to be
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consequences to say, "Listen, you have
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every right to your own foreign policy.
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Russia has every right to its own
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foreign policy, but so does the United
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States. And if you don't want to row in
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the same ship with us, that's okay.
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But don't expect our help. We're not
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going to send you 80 gorgillion dollars.
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not going to send you $5 billion a year
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from the US taxpayer just to to to to
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make our lives more difficult than they
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already are. Again, we shouldn't even be
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in Iran in the first place.
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But the only option left to the
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president now is
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introduce consequences to Israel for
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their their continued aggression and
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unwillingness to facilitate negotiations
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or
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ramp up attacks in Iran. Escalate,
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escalate to deescalate, as they say.
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Well, escalate to deescalate is not is
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not worked because the the escalations
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that can work
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are things like a ground invasion and
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that is just not feasible. Uh it is
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going to inflict massive casualties. It
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won't get the effect. It's what the
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Iranians want so badly because it would
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result in a annihilation of American
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troops.
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I mean, look, the Israelis
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in Lebanon
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fighting Hezbollah,
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a a under underfunded proxy
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of the Iranians. They've already taken
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dozens and dozens of casualties. I mean,
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they've taken the number was 1,500
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casualties in
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60 days in Lebanon, primarily from uh
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Hezbollah FPV drones. Can you imagine
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what a US ground invasion would do? So,
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it's not an escalation to resume
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strikes. In fact, it's in some ways a
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deescalation because the Iranians are
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hardening themselves. They have learned
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something. You like like just like if
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you did something 13,000 times, you
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would learn a little bit about doing
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that thing. Well, the Iranians have
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received 13,000 American air strikes.
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And I'm going to say they've probably
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learned a little bit about what works
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and what doesn't work in terms of
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defending against them. That's one of
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the reasons why President Trump is
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resorting to war crimes. Now, will the
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United States military acquies? Will
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they actually strike civilian power
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plants, civilian bridges,
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particularly when those there's there is
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no existential threat. They were
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striking them purely to obtain
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negotiating leverage. It's absurd. It's
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not like an Iranian army is crossing
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that bridge to surround the First Marine
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Division.
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It's purely to damage their civilian
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economy.
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It's ghoullish. Yeah. And it's also
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deeply deeply illegal. And again, will
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the US military follow it? I I
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legitimately don't know. I legitimately
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don't know. Anyway, guys, thanks to
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Brandon, Alfred, Peter, Mike, William,
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Thomas, Deborah, Paul, Jeff, as well as
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all of our lieutenant members. We really
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appreciate you guys. We could not do it
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without you. We appreciate you, and
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we'll see you in the next one.