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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump - Video: Victor Davis Hanson
Iran put their head right into a noose. They said, we're going to shut down the Strait of Hormuz and only us can determine who gets in and who gets out, and they have to be pro-Iranian.
And we're not going to let Gulf states sell oil. Ha, ha, ha.
And everybody said, oh, that was brilliant. The left went crazy. It was delighted.
Oh, my gosh. The Pentagon was caught unprepared.
The Pentagon had been preparing that for 50 years.
Under Reagan they opened it - they know how to do it.
So all that Trump said is "that's a good idea" shut down the straight and let in the good guys and stop the bad guys but your bad guys are our good guys and your good guys are our bad guys, so we're going to take a page out of your book and we're not going to let in anybody anywhere near Iran and we're gonna let in everybody else.
And the difference between the strategies is not just that we flipped it, but you have no wherewithal.
PT boats and a bunch of mines won't stop us, but we have a huge fleet and that will stop you from stopping us.
And if you decide that you wanna send the remnants of your missiles into the Gulf or Israel or at our fleet, go ahead, because we haven't even decided to hit dual-use targets yet.
We're not like Barack Obama in Libya and taking out television stations and ports.
We're not like Bill Clinton in Serbia that destroyed every bridge on the Danube and took out their grid of a million and a half people.
We're not Harry Truman that destroyed all the hydroelectric plants in North Korea.
We let you off easy.
Well, it doesn't mean there's not an American tradition of hitting dual-use targets, so we're going to hit your electrical and put you in darkness.
And we're going to hit Kharg Island or take it.
We'll either take the oil and rob it from you or take it.
And what was the result of all that in the last 48 hours?
Ships are coming in that we let and ships are not coming in that we don't let.
And people, economists at the major research universities in Europe, the United States have now flipped on a dime and they're actually looking in empirical fashion, at last, at what this means.
And the ranges are absolutely stunning.
$400 million dollars and more per day lost economically to Iran, whether that's lack of oil sales or petrochemical sales or lack of key imported mechanical goods, electrical goods that keep their infrastructure running or food.
They're in dire straits.
They're losing all of their income from the Strait of Hormuz, and they're losing all of their income from the petrochemical and oil.
And they were broke to begin with, and they can't do anything about it because Trump did it sequentially.
Military first, chance of negotiation second, put the boot on the neck third.
So what is gonna happen now? You're gonna see two things, two things.
Possibly three.
They may decide they want to go down in a blaze of glory and empty their arsenal of remnant ballistic missiles and drones.
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