𝙳𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝙵𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚠𝚛𝚊𝚙"...anyone who knows anything about this region or oil politics or how defenses work would have told the president that this isn't how things go. But the president isn't being told anything.
"The people in the department of energy and the DoD who were responsible for studying things like choke points and um the straight of hormuz specifically wereall fired last year and the same goes for basically any sort of strategic planning or think work.
"Pete Hegsth, the Secretary of Defense, has been going on a crusade in that anything that does not actively support the war fighter is being cut out of the Department of the Defense. And that removes all education that would allow people to make educated decisions about say what you do in war."
Captain Jack Sparrow