Ladies and gentlemen, we need to have a tough love moment with our friends in NATO in Europe,

and we're just the men to do it.

Hey, everybody, I'm Steve Green with Bill Whittle and Scott Ott.

This is Right Angle, brought you by the members of Bill Whittle.com.

And gentlemen, as we record this on Thursday the 2nd of April, I think it is, Operation Epic Fury is in its fifth week,

and the Strait of Hormose remains closed to most oil traffic, and Europe wants the U.S. to do something about it.

But shipping and military expert, I read, John Conrad, he's all over X, you should follow

this guy. He spent all day in D.C. earlier this week, talking to his military services, and he said that the Navy

appears to be in no rush to reopen the straight, and that nobody he talked to was willing to

even discuss the fate of Hormuz. And this is a quote, until European politicians and media

stop calling Americans war criminals and monsters, which, you know, seems fair.

They're doing that.

So, Bill, here's the cold truth the way I see it.

The United States were net energy exporters now.

We buy hardly anything from the Gulf.

Europe gets 10 or I think maybe 15% of its oil and natural gas

from there. I'm not a fan of high gas prices, but I do understand that they're only temporary.

And unlike Europe, we are under no threat of rationing or gas lines or any of that stuff.

So here's my question to you. If Europeans want the straight open so badly, do you think maybe they could send some ships?

There's so much great stuff here. I don't know where to start. I think probably the place to start is just to realize just what a master negotiator Donald Trump is in terms of just, I mean, you know, he really ought to write a book

about how you make deals. He really honestly understands leverage and so on.

Practically an art with him. Yeah. The biggest point that I got just from your question is,

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