00:04I think you're linking it. The operation is over. Epic Fury is a president, notified Congress. We're done with that
00:10stage of it. We're now on to this project of freedom. This is not an offensive operation. This is a
00:15defensive operation. And what that means is very simple. There's no shooting unless we're shot at first. We're not attacking
00:22them. But if they're attacking us or they're attacking a ship, you need to respond to that.
00:26You're not going to let some fast boat come up on the ship and shoot it up. We're going to
00:31respond to it. But the goal here is pretty simple. Establish a zone of transit that is protected by a
00:36bubble, the United States, both naval and air assets, and then allow ships who want to move to move through
00:42there and get to market to begin to increase confidence in the ability to do so. That doesn't happen in
00:4612 hours. It takes time to set up that bubble and gain that confidence. But that's the goal.
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