Pete Hegseth: “Their navy's gone, air force gone, air defenses.”

“So think of this chain of events militarily, just for a second. You had 45 days of overwhelming combat which Iran could not manage. And Their navy's gone, air force gone, air defenses. Then it led to a blockade which was impenetrable now for a couple of months. And then you had the underground Project Freedom which allowed now 125 million barrels of oil to transit the straits, showing that we control the straits.” (04:40–04:43)

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