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I welcome Gregory Coppley, defensive. Here's John Bachelor. I'm John Bachelor.

I welcome Gregory Coppley, Defense and Foreign Affairs to comment on the two choke

points that we've built in the 20th century up to taking them for granted.

The Panama Canal, where a drought is severely limited.

The number of ships can come through

and how much cargo they can be carrying

when they come through.

And the Suez Canal, now damaged by the

huthi attacks into the Red Sea so that the container ships and the large oil ships are either diverting around the Cape of Good Hope or haven't made a decision yet through the Suez Canal.

I welcome Gregory to comment on the headlines we're getting from Europe, from London, the Pink She,

this is all very hurried up. Expanded US-led Naval Task Force to protect Red Sea

shipping as a tax mount.

It's called Operation Prosperity Guardian,

and it was announced by the Defense Secretary, Mr. Austin.

I note also that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Brown is in the region in Israel.

Why this all matters is the Houthis who are firing drones and cruise missiles and sophisticated ballistic missiles at shipping and at the

U.S. Navy and at the French Navy and at the British Navy is the presumption. Those huthies are attached to Iran in some fashion.

They're said to have a very high risk tolerance, be ideologically driven, and are

well armed. They took over a country of 26 million people. They're encamped in the capital as

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