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This is John Batchel.

A conversation with my colleague, Anato Levin of the Quincy Institute,

who's traveling. He's in Eastern Hungary.

And a lecturer in a university town gained a question from one of the audience. A schoolteacher who asked the question

of the moment, what's the plan? Did you not know that the Strait of Hormuz would be attacked?

What's the plan? Excellent question.

Don't have an answer. Now that is Anatole. More of this than I.

Well, I know, John, I mean, you know, I've just given a lecture at this university in Eastern Hungary.

And a school teacher, who was part of the audience, asked me this. I mean, surely the Trump administration,

all of this was entirely predictable. Everyone knew that the Iranians would do their utmost to block

international energy supplies. I mean, how else would they hit back? Well, you know, if a school

teacher in Eastern Hungary knows that or knew that before the war. I mean, it is very nearly incredible that the US administration, with all its supposed reserves of, you know, intelligence and analysis, did not predict this.