00:00The Strait of Hormuz, there was freedom of navigation up until February the 27th.
00:04I mean, the issue of straight navigation in the Strait of Hormuz has only emerged as a result of the
00:11attack on Iran by the United States and Israel.
00:15There was no problem before the attack.
00:17So the Congress now start talking about addressing the freedom of navigation when there was absolute freedom of navigation prior
00:26to the attack.
00:27Please let me finish. So, Michael, please let me finish.
00:31Second of all, there is an argument, which I think is an interesting one, that Trump can make against the
00:40Europeans.
00:40The Europeans have been pushing the Trump administration really from day one to get much more involved on behalf of
00:50Ukraine,
00:51get really very seriously behind Zelensky and very seriously involved in, I think, very dangerous and very reckless actions against
01:02Russia.
01:03Trump has been reluctant to do so.
01:05Trump, in fact, has said over and over again, this is not my war.
01:08This is Biden's war. This is the Europeans' war.
01:11But nonetheless, he's feeling that, hey, well, if I'm going to be involved in this war in the in the
01:18way that you Europeans want me to do, I would like something in return.
01:22I would like your support here. But the way the way I think this is Trump's argument, this way it's
01:28working is that, you know,
01:29we're not getting support from you on things that matter to us, which is the Middle East, leave aside whether
01:35it does matter or not.
01:36But, you know, we don't get support on things that matter to us.
01:39But you want me to get very dangerously involved in a war that matters to you, but not to us.
01:46And he said this again and again. Ukraine does not matter to us.
01:49We have an ocean separating us from Ukraine. This is not my war.
01:52So that's, I think, part of the Trump argument against the Europeans.
01:56Hey, you want you want us in Ukraine, but you're not prepared to help us on things that matter to
02:02us.
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