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The Conservative Review with Daniel Burns.

And welcome back fellow American patriots and Minutemen standing at the ready to fight anew

for the issues that matter on this Friday, first day of spring, as things grow because God ordained it as such. One thing that's not

growing is our economy and the brains of the Republican Party and the fake conservative movement.

We're going to try to do that here today at CR podcast, your host, Daniel Hurwitz.

We've been talking a lot about economic stuff, fiscal stuff.

I haven't talked a lot about the war in Iran, but I want to talk about it through the prism of

the economy. And the fact that, you know, we want to be tough on Iran, but the problem we have is

that when you suck on every other issue,

including the economy, it creates two problems. It creates a logistical problem, and it

creates a political problem. So the logistical problem is you need a wartime economy to support a

war. We have a sucky, fragile stagflation economy with record prices, very low

employment, no real manufacturing and output. So when you go through a war, you're subject to shocks

in the system that are natural, even if the war is going well, but you're going to have problems,

particularly with the Straits of Hormuz, with oil. And I've said before, I've in the system that are natural, even if the war is going well, but you're going to have problems,

particularly with the Straits of Hormuz, with oil. And I've said before, I support clearing the shipping lanes permanently and getting rid of the menace that spikes the price of oil,

even if that's going to cost, you know, a month worth of temporary spikes. But the problem is,

what if you have an economy that can't handle it? Because we're so weak. And this is the

problem with Trump squandering, frankly, his first term, causing all the COVID debt, and then

coming back and doing nothing but sophistry. So yeah, I mean, we're, we're not in a

position to wage war. He's asking for $200 billion for it. We don't have the money and it's going to

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