Where does President Trump's speech leave us with regard to where the war is heading?

And it really was, to me, the story of the commander-in-chief who weeks into this war is deeply uncertain about how it ends.

I'm John Feiner, co-host of the Long Game podcast. This week, Jake Sullivan and I break down the president's speech and discuss what it's like to negotiate with the Iranians.

We will also debate whether Iran should accept a deal.

The episode is out now. Search and follow The Long Game, wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Scott Galloway, and this is no mercy, no malice.

Since the start of the war with Iran, we've been fixated on the Strait of Hormoz.

But in a globalized, digitized world, geographic features aren't the only choke points.

Choke points, as read by George Hahn.

When you compress the carotid arteries, you cut off the flow of oxygenated blood to the brain. This causes unconsciousness in approximately eight to

15 seconds due to cerebral hypoxia, oxygen deprivation to the brain. Globalization has expanded

the economic corpus, resulting in an interconnected world and yielding huge, though unevenly distributed, prosperity.

It has also formed carotid arteries the size of, wait for it, the Strait of Hormuz.

In 1984, a forgettable made-for-TV movie contemplated a Middle East conflict that closed the

Strait of Formuz.

For decades, U.S. strategic simulations have explored similar scenarios.

In one 2002 war game, the Red Team, deploying asymmetrical capabilities, including

armed speedboats, decimated American naval forces

in 10 minutes, effectively closing the strait. Why didn't the Trump administration anticipate this

entirely predictable scenario? A, despite a warning from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,

the president determined that the regime would capitulate before closing the strait, and that if it didn't, the U.S. military could reopen it. He was wrong.

This may be the greatest intelligence failure since CIA director George Tenet famously told Bush it was a slam-dunk case that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. But let's put aside the choke point almost everyone

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