Tucker Carlson: “The United States went into the conflict with the mistaken…”

“But Iran's power derives from its ability to shut down or at least gravely damage the global economy. So the only question that matters long term is who reopens that strait? And it seems obvious at this point that The United States went into the conflict with the mistaken belief that it could, we could, somebody could reopen that strait by force. It's hard to understand how anyone who thought about it for 10 minutes, 5 minutes, 2 minutes, could have reached that conclusion. How do you open it by force?” (07:47–07:59)

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