00:00Keeping this Tritik Hormuz open was the number one U.S. priority we would have done that.
00:04The number one U.S. priority, of course, was to decapitate, destroy the Iranian regime,
00:08destroy their functional ability.
00:10Errol, but we did see the U.S. actually kill the supreme leader very early on into those strikes,
00:18but that made no difference.
00:20The regime is still in place, and some may argue, is stronger than it was before.
00:24Yeah, no, we hear the arguments.
00:26We just counter with the fact that we came there, we destroyed everybody and killed everybody
00:31who had decided that they wanted to wipe the U.S. off the face of the map.
00:35We did our military objectives, and now we're back to economic objectives.
00:39So from the U.S. standpoint, from the Pentagon standpoint, the Strait of Hormuz opening was less valuable
00:44than what we decided to do inside of Iran regarding their Navy, Air Force, and leadership.
00:48Now, the secondary objective is to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but more importantly,
00:52it was to, at least in our perspective, try to remove the threat of Iranian nuclear material in the region.
00:59Now, whether that was a success or not is going to be determined,
01:03but the Strait of Hormuz was obviously something that we were willing to allow to be shut down in the
01:06short term.
01:06This wasn't a surprise to U.S. strategists that this happened.
01:10However, now the question is, how fast does it want to get back online,
01:13and how badly does Iran need the money that's going to flow through?
01:16Because they need it more than us, and the world needs Iranian cooperation more than the Americans need it,
01:20except for Donald Trump, who does need it in the midterm.
01:23So that's where we have a three-way confluence of interests.
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