00:00He signed a very rickety MOU to get a rickety ceasefire.
00:07Iran has, from the beginning, been very clear that it's going to hold on to the Strait of Hormuz.
00:13The United States doesn't want that.
00:15It doesn't really have the ability to stop it.
00:18It's trying to throw some kinetic power at Iran.
00:22I don't think it's going to work.
00:23We'll probably be back at some point soon to where we were before.
00:30You know, the president is caught in a dilemma of his own making where he can't really change Iran's behavior.
00:39Iran is now stronger than it was before the war in terms of its strategic position.
00:45And he can keep saying, look at all the targets that we're hitting and all the ships we've sunk.
00:52But it doesn't change the fact that they are kind of in the catbird seat.
00:55And there's not much that we can do about it short of a massive ground invasion, which he rightly has
01:03calculated he shouldn't do and the public wouldn't tolerate.
01:06That's great.
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