Tucker Carlson: “Even if you reduced Iran to the state of permanent civil…”

“Because who's going to do that? Who's going to insure a ship when no government can protect it or assure its protection as it passes through the straits? So. So again, Even if you reduced Iran to the state of permanent civil war, ethnic conflict, even if you killed 90% of the people in Iran, or 99% or 100%, you would still be unable to promise shipping companies and oil producers and oil buyers that their oil or their liquefied natural gas or their fertilizer, their sulfur or anything else they need from the Persian Gulf would actually be able to go through that strait into the Indian Ocean and out to the rest of the world. So that's not a solution. There's no military solution. That's not a peacenik position. War is bad. That's a practical observation that reflects reality. You cannot bomb your way to an open strait.” (09:55–10:31)

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