Trumps Oil Gambit Gas Prices Geopolitics And Global Turmoil

Is gas price and inflation going to be the most important thing, not necessarily just taking out a world leader? Yeah, it is complicated. Also, the ties to Israel are very complicated. I actually think that the whole issue with Hamas and Israel was one of the losing points for Biden. His base can't agree on it. You have the far left that's very pro-Hamas, pro-Palestine, very anti-Israel. They probably split the vote. A lot of them did not vote for Biden. That probably cost Democrats dearly in the elections. Biden, I think, was caught between Iraq and a hard place. You help Israel, you're bad. If you help Palestine, you're bad. If you do nothing, you're bad. There was no good solution. Trump's in the same position right now. You do have a lot of opposition even among Republicans. There's a big split over this. Some of it has to do with the newly rekindled dislike of Israel that's happening, both Democrats and Republicans. You have a third party forming. It is possible that could result in maybe even some of those Republicans voting for maybe even Democrats, like a Mamdami-type figure who's just focused on, in terms of language at least, just focused on the economy. You could have that, but even aside from that, you do have a lot of people who are war-weary, people who saw what happened in Afghanistan, Iraq, felt that we were promised something early on. The war escalated, turned into something else, and we were stuck there for 20 years doing nation building, which failed. A lot of Americans don't want to see us re-engaging in the Middle East. To a couple of your points, though, without a doubt, oil is going to be a big deal. If Trump cannot wrap this up and get oil prices down, a lot of American voters are very simple. How is my wallet doing? No matter how much guys like you and I talk about high-level politics, a lot of Americans are like, well, how does it affect me? That's what it comes down to. If price of pump is too high, they're going to vote against Trump. I think plain and simple. Trump did something very interesting right before this, though, which is basically he went in and captured a whole bunch of Venezuelan oil. Was that planned? I don't know. Is that legal? I don't know, but Trump basically captured an entire country's worth of oil and also can do domestic drilling. Is that going to get on track fast enough to replace Iran? That's another issue entirely because a lot of that was sanctioned oil, so it was not legally being traded. Trump now has accessed all of it, so legitimate markets can now access it. The last point I think is, of course, just based on will Americans support this or not? The other side with the idea of a long war, what they really don't want to see is us getting pulled into nation building. As things currently stand with Iran, their ability to do air defense is gone. We control the skies. We're doing leadership decapitation, targeted strikes. I don't think a ground war is going to be necessary. In terms of nation building, also unnecessary. There's already a government interim in place under the former Shah's son who wants to take over. Already you have popular revolts taking place against the regime that have been going on for a long time. What the people in Iran need is proof enough that they're not going to be killed if America backs off because the regime was starting to round them up and kill them all. I don't think nation building is going to be necessary. A system is already in place for it. The question is, can Trump wrap it up quick enough? That's the real thing. My thoughts are the price of gas and the length. If he can keep it short and then bring gas prices back down, I think he's okay. I think most people see the Ayatollah as a modern day monster. We'll talk about that in a minute. Length of time, military. I'm excited to share with you guys an incredible scientific breakthrough to support our long term health and wellness.