Geopolitics
John Spencer says Iran oil exports were fully stopped under blockade
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MILITARY STRATEGIST: Why Trump Is Weighing a Land Blockade of Iran
"He decided to do a blockade that was effective. There was not a single Iranian oil shipment that it relies on that got out. But, they were still threatening because there was a thousand oil tankers on the far side that we needed to get out to put the supply back into the global economy that we were slowly trickling them out, but then they would attack them."
Military strategist John Spencer tells Mike Ritland that a US-led blockade of Iran was, in his telling, effective enough to prevent any Iranian oil shipment from leaving, while still leaving shipping exposed to disruption threats in and around the Strait of Hormuz. He frames the continuing risk less as Iran physically closing the waterway than as insurers and shippers responding to credible threats, requiring escorts and driving up costs. The remarks are presented as his account of operational outcomes and strategic trade-offs, but no sourcing is provided in the clip.
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