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Steve Bannon (0:00)
Within days. May have even done it last summer. Maybe you've done it within days of this conflict. Then it became regime change, and now it becomes open the Strait of Hormuz. How is it our problem, the Strait of Hormuz? I mean, we don't even get much oil through the Strait of Hormuz to these shores. It's a Europe problem. It's an. It's an Asia problem. It's not our problem, it's an India problem. I think he was so smart to say, it's your ball. NATO, China, your ball. You open the strait, we've done our job. But then he just went back to let's bomb them into. Into submission, into Stone Age, which the oil traders said, that is not good, because these people won't relent. Even if they're in the Stone Age, they'll still use whatever capacity they have to kill Americans and to blow up infrastructure and make oil prices go higher because it hurts Trump and hurts Americans.
Stephen K. Bannon (0:47)
Do you think they're also saying. Do you think they're also saying, we've looked at the World Navy, we look at what France has as naval assets. We've looked at the Italians, we saw the, the. As I was hammering every day last summer, what a poor job they did in assisting the American strike forces, carrier strike groups down the Red Sea against the Houthis. Really. The Americans took it all on, I think. The French sent a corvette, the British sent a destroyer. France sent a frigate, but no real support. Do you think the world's oil markets are sitting there going, President Trump says that they're going. We're not buying that. They can't. You're the United States. You're the United States Navy. You're the heir to the world Navy. You're the most powerful naval force. You keep free navigation all. Was it Straits of Malacca, the South China Sea, Hormuz, the Red Sea, the Suez Canal? It's the United States Navy that keeps it open. And if you're telling me you're pulling out, then I don't think this thing's getting result. I don't care how badly you bomb the Iranians, they still got enough of these kind of Houthi type guys on the, on the coast down there. And most of those are not Persian. I think a lot of them are just kind of these better ones that are down there, these Berbers, I think they're better ones down there with these rockets that can try to. They're essentially pirates that are doing the pirate craft right now. Do you think that you think the world's oil market does it. When President Trump says it's your problem, they get nervous. They don't want to see. They get, they get KEIR Starmer hosting a 40 nation. You know, today, everybody talk of it, they say, hey, I have Trump in the United States Navy or I've got KEIR STARMER and 40, you know, you know, Balkan company countries.
Steve Bannon (2:24)
Sir, here's I think, Steve, I think, yes, I think the oil market is waiting to see actually what happens. Boots in the sand or not us here's what I believe from the bottom of my heart. I believe if we said we, our job is done here, we obliterate their nuclear capacity, we're packing up, we're going home again. We don't get a lot of oil through that strait to the US Shores. It's your job. You risk. Europe has risk, China has risk. They'll get it open because you know who, who these, the Iranian customers are and the Saudi customers are both sides of the strait. The Chinese and Europe, they'll get the thing open.
