I'm John Batchler. I welcome my good friend and colleague, Colonel Jeff McCawes,

in the United States Army-retired artillerymen,

CBS News, visiting Professor Dickinson College, as well as the CEO Diamond Sixth Leadership and Strategy.

We go to the Iran conflict because right now we have a third carrier in the area.

We have all the forces that delivered all the weaponry in the first round ready at the direction

of the President of the United States.

No other transnational body present, no NATO, no UN, just the President's intentionality

with his counselors.

At the same time, we have deadlines that are coming up, the War Powers Act,

the meeting of Xi and Trump in Beijing, and then there's the midterms. I'm sure there's some others,

but the situation in Iran is fraught, not the least because the regime, such as it is, the IRGC, the state within a state,

is adamant. It will not surrender. It will not bow. It will not negotiate unless, Jeff, a very good

evening to you. The Straits of our moves were not part of our conversation in the first days of the war.

They are all the conversation now because what the

closing of those straits do to the world's economy. For example, I spoke with Japan in these

last hours. They are moving to emergency situation of releasing more from their petroleum reserve

than they want to, but they see no immediate choice as they divert their

supply line from Asia, where a huge percentage of it, somewhere between, about 70% of the oil

that they import is coming from the Persian Gulf. They have to find substitutes. They can't rely

on their preserves. That's one country, one member of the G7 in alarm bells,

and the financial markets reflect it. We could go on, but I want to say at the end of the line,

are the people who depend upon the food crop that is being planted now and will be harvested

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