How Iran and Ukraine Became One War

So what we're doing today, we're going to do Ukraine and we're going to do Iran.

Right.

So over the last week or so, we've had this is like extraordinary series of developments.

I just list some for for our listeners today.

Obviously, the war is still ongoing.

It doesn't seem like it's getting solved.

It's actually expanded, right? This war that Israel and the U.S.

started with the decapitation of the supreme leader in Iran.

Now we've seen the Iranians working with the Houthis to cut off another strait.

So more oil has been cut off.

They've also attacked a Saudi pipeline that runs across Saudi Arabia.

So what's going on, Hassan?

It's so interesting.

I mean, you know more about conflict strategy than me, but I just feel like looking at this is making me think that whenever you're playing cards, you know, whenever you're playing chess, the biggest mistake is to forget that your opponent also has a strategy.

They've also got a set of cards and a set of pieces.

And it's as if especially Donald Trump, you know, with his narcissistic worldview has forgotten that.

And Iran is playing its cards.

It's playing its pieces.

And it's really revealing the soft underbelly of the US-Israel Gulf defensive posture by allowing the Houthis who are controlling most of Yemen from the south to take more and more of the Red Sea coast and at the same time have its proxies in Iraq bombing the east-west pipeline.

And what that's doing, is essentially meaning that Saudi's escape hatch, which has been very effective, right? Saudi Arabia has been able to- Rather than

taking oil out of the Strait of Hormuz, you put it through this pipeline to take it to the other coast.

Yeah.

And it's really been amazing to me that the other countries, especially the UAE, which is pretty advanced in its capabilities and has a coastline that isn't inside the Persian Gulf, haven't had that pipeline capacity.

But Saudi has had it right.

They've been able to pump oil from the Gulf Coast all the way to the Red Sea, get it out, get it on ships.