EXCERPT:
KINZINGER: “Yeah, that’s the whole thing. This is so damaging. You know, regardless of — let’s just be agnostic on whether he should attack again or not for the moment. When you make threats and then you’re eager to back down from those threats, which he has been every single time. I mean, he’s gone from we will destroy an entire civilization to we have a deal, which we never actually had, by the way, claiming the Strait’s open, claiming it’s closed, claiming he was going to pull the trigger on May 19th and now everybody wants him to deal because we’re about to — like, you lose all of your strategic, like, strength. One of the greatest things the United States had is our ability to say we will do something, the enemy knows that, and then hopefully we won’t have to do that. This has just been like threat, back off, threat, back off. And I haven’t seen the Iranians move in any way here. And we find ourselves in the worst-case scenario, which is a closed strait, this nebulous future, and gas is now having to price in and futures are pricing in the uncertainty.”
(Via Mediaite)
