On this episode of The Situation Room, the guys discuss the latest in the ongoing crisis with Iran, and the possible ground invasion of Karg Island by the U.S. military. They also discuss the recent shooting of a family member of a soldier by the North Korean regime.
00:00:54.060but again I voted for him to you know in these situations to trust the decisions he's making
00:01:00.020let's see what they're going to be doing because no matter how much we talk about guess what we
00:01:04.000don't have we don't have all the information we don't have all the intel we know what they're
00:01:07.860going to be doing Rob did you find that clip I'm still looking yeah it's a it's a it's a clip from
00:01:12.680two days ago where he says that so if you do find it let me know uh any thoughts yeah it's a lot of
00:01:18.960smoke screens but I think that's intentional and I mean if it's going to follow the patterns of
00:01:22.800what he's done in the past it's something he's distraction distraction distraction uh confused
00:01:27.120people and then boom out of nowhere something swift fast and uh super effective happens where
00:01:32.140i like i don't think the triple e is going to ultimately play a role in whatever happens
00:01:35.720because everybody in the world's looking at it watching it saying okay it's three days away now
00:01:39.380it's two days away now it's one day away now so i i think something different's going to happen
00:01:43.020aside from that uh maybe with carg island but you know there's no way that we just make a deal with
00:01:47.640them now because that would be a worse situation than we went into in the first place so it gets
00:01:51.380It goes from an extremist hostile regime to a pissed-off extremist hostile regime with oil at a higher price and with all the infrastructure for oil halfway damaged.
00:02:02.660So, yeah, no, you have to go all the way now, no half measures.
00:02:06.720Yeah, I hate it because I like that Maduro was in and out.
00:02:13.400I like that I thought we had conducted a precision bombing up in the hills and had gotten to some nuclear facilities.
00:02:20.980And now there's a little part of me that's like, you know, here we go again, weapons of mass destruction, except that now we can see a missile going 4,000 miles.
00:02:30.460We see one, and you can't have that, right?
00:02:32.640Now that you have a missile, it's like North Korea.
00:02:34.340When you have an ability to throw a missile this far, now you're just scared to death on what kind of a bomb can be on top of it.
00:02:45.340You know, if we see the reports that the USS Tripoli is there, the USS Boxer, which we brought up on this podcast first, has left San Diego a week ago and is in route.
00:02:58.580And, you know, at the end of this this ultimatum, you know, they got to get it together.
00:03:04.760I mean, the Iranians have a decision to make at the end of the ultimatum because Trump has got a set of arms and a set of tactics that are ready.
00:03:13.900The FT Financial Times ran a story talking about ground invasion of Karg Island.
00:03:20.720Everybody is waking up to the fact that's, wait a minute, the Americans are not just talking back and forth here.
00:03:25.380This is not a debate like in the American Congress.
00:03:28.460The Americans are continuing to move their military assets around.
00:03:31.800And at the end of this saying, if we don't have an agreement in place, they're going to take the next step.
00:03:37.380And the next step is going to be Carg Island.
00:03:40.640And by the way, the U.S.S. Tripoli is also part of what's called the – is really called the Iron Dome.
00:03:47.320But it's an envelope of protection so all the minesweepers can clear the rest of the gulf.
00:03:52.680So Trump has next bullets in this gun, and he's serious.
00:03:59.680This is that, you know, we talked, I mentioned it earlier, he's very good at, you know, these distractions where, similar to Midnight Hammer, if that is a similar situation, well, at least for a short period of time, it would probably impact oil prices higher.
00:04:13.840So it would be a good time to go long oil.
00:04:16.160Also would probably hurt bond prices and for a period of time hurt stock prices.
00:04:20.620So that is something to contemplate, you know, if you're listening to this on, you know, from a business perspective, that's something to contemplate.
00:04:28.880but clearly it's a much bigger picture here.
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