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KANNO-YOUNGS: "The president has been delivering, issuing conflicting messages throughout this more than a month-long war at this point, sometimes in the same sentence, right? And right, just this week, you have had him — you know, earlier in the week, the message was this essentially isn't the United States's problem. It's not the U.S.'s responsibility to solve, other nations that rely on oil from the Gulf more should be addressing this. And then you also have him post on social media, even before these statements, actually no ceasefire deal until the Strait is opened. Right? And you have both of those messages going out, right? And now also you have this escalating language, which again is unusual even for Trump standards, right, this recent post. So, you're absolutely right. We've had these conflicting messages of, on one hand, the president trying to frame this war as an overwhelming success that could end and saying, 'We don't even need the Strait,' on the other end, knowing that, you know, the price of oil is priced on global supply and demand, what's happening with the Strait is going to impact economic anxieties in the United States and of reacting to that."