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Will the Strait of Hormuz become a U.S. territory?

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Will the Strait of Hormuz become a U.S. territory?

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We control it with a blockade and uh I

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like the idea of declaring it a

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territory.

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We have total control over the street.

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Now they can be a nuisance. They can put

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a mine in the water and people don't

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like having mines hit their billion

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dollar ships, you know, etc. Uh but the

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blockade has been very effective and you

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know we're taking out now maybe that

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will stop or maybe it'll open up even

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further. But we're taking out millions

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of barrels of oil a week. If you look at

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the kind of numbers that we're doing,

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we're doing the straight is open and the

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oil prices are coming down and they will

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continue to come down unless we decide

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to do something far more drastic than

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we're

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The speaker discusses the effective use of a blockade to maintain control over a strategic strait, noting that this strategy has successfully secured the transport of millions of barrels of oil and contributed to lower oil prices.

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