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S8 Ep746: Naval Capabilities and Resupplying Iran Guest: Grant Newsham Grant Newsham asserts the US Navy can successfully blockade Hormuz. However, he warns that China is flagrantly resupplying Iran with rocket fuel components, testing American resolve and betting

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🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Naval Capabilities and Resupplying Iran Guest: Grant Newsham Grant Newsham asserts the US Navy can successfully blockade Hormuz. However, he warns that China is flagrantly resupplying Iran with rocket fuel components, testing American resolve and betting on a lack of response.
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Today. I'm John Bachelor. I welcome my good colleague, Grant Neucham, United States Marine Corps

0:50.3

retired colonel, as well as the author, most importantly, of the Prussian book

0:54.9

When China Attacks, We're watching the Middle East, the war's simultaneous wars, between Iran,

1:02.8

the U.S. and Israel, between Iran and the world, now with threats to the Strait of Hormuz.

1:09.2

I introduce, however, in these last hours, information that

1:12.7

makes the present situation already entangled with many governances and crosstalk, even more

1:19.8

dense to solve, which is why I need grants help. He's helped me understand that East Asia is

1:25.0

manageable in the event of a Chinese attack. How about this?

1:29.3

The U.S. has announced a U.S. naval blockade of the Straits of Hormuz, in addition to the

1:36.2

Straits of Ormuz being blockaded by threat of fire from Iran, either drones or missiles.

1:42.6

And yet, a shadow fleet ship called the Eslip or something near two,

1:48.4

Epless, passed through the Strait of Hormuz and is now announcing that it got through the

1:53.7

Strait of Hormuz without being interrupted. All right, it's early hours. First day of an

1:58.3

announcement, announced a blockade. Maybe it didn't catch that fleet but with the

2:04.4

time pressure here is not entirely favoring the u.s and its ally israel the oil supply crunch

2:11.2

intensifies as the last of the harmoos tankers reach refineries that's also a headline in the

2:17.4

financial times in addition to that we now have new information the Hormuz tankers reach refineries. That's also a headline in the Financial Times.

2:18.9

In addition to that, we now have new information from Saudi Arabia. Why we didn't have this

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