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This is where like a global hyper power really

does need to get involved,

you know, in terms of just keeping shipping lanes open.

So, like who's to say that the US wouldn't jump in there?

I mean, I think that's kind of, isn't that sort of the goal that they have here of like trying to

sharpen the distinctions and bring the US in on the side, putatively on the side of

Israel to kind of show the world that the US really is the great Satan.

Yeah, I mean at any at any other time I think it would be hoo hoo hoo thoo goodbye you know like it really does feel like

this is the reticence here on the part of the Biden administration rightly or wrongly has everything

to do with its sense that that would, that they're trying to

bait us into exactly that kind of response. Now I still think it's insane that we haven't done

something decisive about the fact that, right, what ships are just going to be like piloting

around Africa, like it's 1632 or something.

What the hell is this about? I'm going to Hello and welcome back to the roundtable

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