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We're Admiral Montgomery.

He's retired from the United States Navy.

He has in the past commanded carrier groups.

And he joins me from, I don't know where.

He's always going around the globe somewhere.

Admiral, thank you for joining us again fairly soon after your last appearance.

But we've had a big new development, an embargo, a blockade.

Let me begin by asking you, how do we do that?

Thank you for having you.

I am in Taiwan where blockades are an interesting topic.

So how do we do this one?

This one is about, I fully support this. The president had a couple options

here. Iran was illegally blocking the transit passage of merchant ships to the Straits

or whom he was trying to charge a toll, you know, in contravention of international law.

He had two options. One, he could go back to the kinetic attacks he was

doing before the ceasefire, knock their, you know, missiles, drones and such back, and then under,

you know, under threat of U.S. military attack, escort through merchant ships. The merchant ships

weren't thrilled with this because there's still risk to them.

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