Houthis

“There are many other groups like this that may get emboldened and you start to see more activity in other regions as well, that you can have these kind of outsized impacts and folks suddenly, you know, start to take action.”

“If you send a drone and it blows up on a ship and it costs you a couple thousand bucks to do that, the lack of risk tolerance, the fact that the insurance companies won't insure the ship anymore means that now that ship can't travel and that's tens of millions…”

“So I don't think this is going to have any impact other than to escalate the conflict in the Middle East and put us on a path to war with Iran, which is really where the neocons want to take us. You've heard, obviously, the warmongers like Lindsey Graham are c…”

“I mean, the Houthis have been at war on and off With the Saudis for a decade, and the Saudis been backed by Western weapons, and we have not been able to defeat the Houthis. So this missile strike last night is not gonna deter them. It's not gonna stop them. T…”

“So for example, with the Hooties, they've been firing cheap missiles and drones at our ships in the Red Sea. And we've been having to spend two million dollar air defense missiles shooting down 2000 dollar drones.”

“Previous to my getting here treasury had disrupted the ecosystem so much that the Iranians used to hand them cash. Now they're just handing them here, take, take this oil tanker and try to sell it.”