Larry Johnson: Iran Broke the U.S. Navy’s Supply Chain

0:00and Hi, I'll go ahead. Sorry. I'm in a rough I'm in a rough in your introduction. Okay. Yeah. Today's Thursday September 3, 2026 and our dear friend with that beautiful shirt is here. Larry Johnson. Welcome back. Thank you, Neymar. And by the way, what I meant to tell you, I sent you an email and copied another podcast by the name of Michael Ferris who does coffee and a mic. Yeah. And he's written he's written to you before inviting you on and you just blow him off. So I'm putting you on notice. You need to call him but you need to send him an email back. Sure. Sure. Sure. He's a big admirer and he's actually actually I think he he does Michael Hudson as well. So you guys do several people in the comments. Yeah. In addition to me. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Sure. I checked it out. Yeah. All right. What are we talking about?

1:06Yeah. What's new today? Let's let's let's do it like a high school chair. Give me a T. Give me an A. Give me a C. Give me an A. Give me an A. Give me one. Yeah. Yeah. Talk. Talk. Talk. Talk. Talk. Talk. And yeah, is he didn't attack. He didn't attack. He he tries to manage the case. Today, we had a report says that Donald Trump is trying to do the attacks the way that doesn't doesn't influence the oil market that much, you know, he's keeping an eye on all the market. Yeah, I wonder, I wonder with, oh, I know what the answer is, don't attack. Yeah. Oh, God. It's just amazing what's going on.

2:09Yeah, it's, it's, I said, if, if people weren't being killed, this would be hilarious. It's just like, really, is he this dumb? Yeah, apparently he is. Today, Larry, there is a, there is an article in New York Times today they reported and showing this map. It says that the US Navy is facing mountain logistic pressure in the middle as, as Iranian attacks have disrupted its traditional regional supply network. It says around 20 US warship carrying roughly 20,000 sailors and Marines currently require more than 420,000 miles and about 8 million gallons of fuel every week. It undestroyed the key Navy logistics base

3:09in Bahrain and made it dangerous to use other nearby ports. Supply ship must now travel around 200, yeah, 2,000, 2,000, 200 miles approximately and 3,000, 3,500, 40 kilometers to Diego Garcia or as far as Singapore before returning to replenish the fleet with nearby ports largely unavailable. US warship required at sea resupply missions every five or six days. This is what was reported on New York Times, Larry. Yeah, see, is anybody else in your channel been saying that for about a month and a half? Well, yeah, that'd be me. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, glad they're catching up to what's been

4:13obvious news for quite some time. Geez, you know, and as I think I explained to God, it's just two weeks ago. So, look, this didn't develop overnight. This has been, this is a result of some decisions that were made 12 years ago. They used to have four fast resupply ships and someone said, ah, we don't need all those. We'll just cut them back to two. But you cut them back to two. Now, you don't have enough to service this fleet to South there. And notice they would actually, if they, if they were in a better situation, they could go to Pakistan or maybe to Alport in India, but they're not doing that because I think they frankly think they can't get the supplies there or too prohibitive, too dangerous, whatever. So hence going, you know, the 2200

5:14miles south of the Egrigarcia. This is why the United States can't sustain a military operation in the straight-of-form lose against Iran. They're going to run out of beans or bullets or both. There were last night we had new attacks on Kuwait and UAE. And they basically mentioned, you know, it's hitting some radars in these countries. And this didn't come after any sort, you know, they decided to attack these two countries last night in the aftermath of those attack, American attack. Because they started with Jordan, you remember? Then, Kuwait, they attacked Bahrain. And again, last night, attack Kuwait and UAE again. Yeah, well, there were active radars there. Again, they're taking out all the ability,

6:16they're blinding the United States. They want to destroy their ability to detect launches, detect aircraft, detect ships, and you destroy radar, that's one way to get it. Get it done. And then puts them in the position of having to rely upon AWACS, which is a less reliable system. And has limitations such as amount of time it can stay aloft, then it could potentially get shot down if it's straights too close to combat area. Here is a further of the Prince Hassan Air Base. You see here, they hit the hanger of the fighter jets and the runway. Yeah, yeah, it looks like they've got a big crater in the runway. Yeah, that's pretty easy to repair. That won't, you know, that knocks it out for two or three days, tops. Sometimes they can get a repair, it's in 24 hours.

7:18Oh, blowing up the hanger, though, that's a whole different, that's a different ballgame. But if they hit the wrong way, they have to hit the wrong way, multiple locations, instead of one. And well, even if they hit it in multiple locations, just a matter of getting, gravel, asphalt, and patching the hole. And so it's not like you can catastrophically destroy it. It would take like an earthquake where the whole one on the entire side of the runway gets lifted 10 feet in the air, then you can't repair that. Here is Donald Trump lashing out at you, Larry. And it's because of me at treasonous scum, huh? I actually, it's not me because I vacuumed, reported on the military operation.

8:22Yeah. But he says that we have a lot of emanations, you know, when it comes to, you know, long and mid-range emanations, he says, mid and high, great ammunition. He says that. He doesn't accept, you know, that he has used so far most of the long-range missiles, which we are talking about since the war started. It's the basic problem that you've mentioned over and over is a long-range missiles. Donald Trump denies that. Well, he can deny it. It should deny all those change the reality. So he can keep denying it. But the reality is that the United States is out of critical misses. Or it's running very, very low. And that the task of replacing those missiles is

9:23beyond difficult since China controls where earth minerals that are essential ingredients and manufacturing those missiles. Today, JD Vance was asked about the war in the war between the United States and Iran. He was what he said about the wars. Have. But America has fought a lot of wars since I've been alive. 42 years. And we have won almost none of them until Donald J. Trump became the President of the United States. What does that say about the culture of military leadership, the way that we did planning? I mean, Jesus, you know, it's sad to see a guy take off his clothes and humiliate himself like that. He's doing, he's doing the equivalent of stripping naked and running around and declaring himself as some sort of deity. It's just ridiculous comment. He's corrected one thing up to a point.

10:30Yeah, we haven't won any wars. genuine wars. Did we beat the stuff in out of Grenada who had no army? Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're kicked their ass. Panama. Yeah, we bought off most of the army and betrayed a guy who had been a long time CIA asset. Man, one or a egg. Same betrayal that we heaped upon Saddam Hussein after we'd bankrolled him in his war against Iran for 10 years. Yeah, so shame on JD Vance. Now, let's see him put the lipstick on this peg. But now we've won in Iran. Wank, Wank. His, I think Donald Trump is so, so when I see the way that Donald Trump is handling Scott Besson, handling Pete Hexet and right now with JD Vance, he's so powerful inside the administration.

11:34Basically, running the show and everybody is around him just reed orating what Donald Trump is talking about. They don't have their own mind. They don't say something different than what Donald Trump is talking about. And he was quite successful, successful to achieve that. JD Vance, I have never thought that JD Vance would be that much, you know, at least don't comment on what, you know, you don't need to go that far to explain what Donald Trump is achieving. You know, he, I guess he desperately wants to be the presidential nominee in 2028 to humiliate himself like this. And he humiliates himself to achieve that and he'll lose it. He won't win it. It's very bad what he's doing. He raised the other part of what he said Larry.

12:36The same public media reports everywhere else. I will say that the Iranian state media has not been a very good scribe about what's happened in the conflict as far. So I'm extremely skeptical of this. What I can say with 100% confidence is that unlike the IRGC, the United States never targets civilians in combat. We never will do that. We never have done that. And unfortunately, obviously sometimes things happen. But in this particular case, I don't think that we have any information one way or the other. We're investigating it because obviously we care. We want to know. And if we do make mistakes, again, this is a big difference between us and Iran. When our military makes mistakes, they learn from them to try to get better from them. So we're investigating it very fully. He is a liar. Being deliberately delusioned.

13:37Go back to World War II. We deliberately killed civilians. We bombed civilian areas in Germany and in Japan. And we killed civilians. Lieutenant Calli was just the he was pointing into the spirit. The entire chain of command had been behind that decision to kill those civilian villagers. The civilians killed in Somalia. Libya in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Iran now. Sorry, JD. You're you're just lying and it's shameful. There was a report Larry on New York Times saying that Iran said to the United States that if Israel attacks the Ali Tahr, or somehow fortress, we're going to attack Israel.

14:37It was all based on, you know, there was no report on the part of Iranians or no one reported on that. And that sort of argument Iran is about to attack Israel. So it. But we know that the reason fight going on in Ali Ali Al-Tahr in the southern Lebanon. And it seems that Israel is capturing part of that part of the Ali Tahr fortress, or maybe mount. I don't know how to call it, but is the way that IDF, one of the, you know, we have the times of Israel military journalist. He pointed out that the Reuters report earlier that Iran warned the US and that it would respond to any Israeli offensive on Ali Tahr is 100 BS. He said that this guy from time of Israel, the two reports.

15:40And who's who's trying to manipulate any opinion and who's giving this sort of information to Reuters? I mean Israel is, you know, Zionist around BB, Zionist fanatics inside the defense ministry. You know, there's clearly span. There. Let me just. Larry in Yemen today, we've learned in Yemen and so have. They have started a large scale offensive into the Al. Al Mokha, Al Mokha, that same region you remember. The Mokha, the Mokha coffee. Exactly direction controlled by Saudi back, DLC fighters.

16:45And since last time we talk about it, it was two weeks ago that we were talking about Yemen. You know, they have never stopped fighting each other. The fighting still going on inside Yemen. Yeah. What is the perception in your opinion on the part of Washington when it comes to Yemen and what's going on with bubble man that do they have the strategy of the continuation of the conflict because after all so the area seems to be more so much obedient, a Washington when it comes to be in the conflict with Yemen. I start with. Find me somebody in Washington that they can find Yemen on a map. That's for starters. They don't have a freaking crew, freaking flu. No, this is. It's viewed as one of these exotic struggles that right now we're we're happy to ignore it because we've already proved we couldn't do anything to stop it.

18:01Today Larry, we had a report on a Navy anti ship cruise missiles launched from Syriq islands from Syriq not islands from Syriq that area close to the Persian Gulf. The more the stranger for most do you mean the area that the US destroyed the other day. Yeah. Okay. It was Syriq. Just checking. Want to make sure we're on the same sheet here. So this is this is another one of those sites obliterated by Donald Trump and our our Air Force. And now it's backed up and operated. God, I don't know how that's possible. They apparently didn't get the memo that they were obliterating. It seems that the fighting is going on in the straight of our most we had two reports from the Secretary of Energy in the United States. Or is the head of energy Secretary of Energy or I don't know how to call.

19:03Yeah, Secretary Chris Wright. Yeah, Chris Wright. Secretary of Energy. Yeah, Secretary. He said that in the last in one day they have, you know, they have 17 million barrels, 17 million barrels passing through the straight of all in 24 hours. And today, JD van said 14 million barrels last night passed through the straight of all most. These numbers are so big. And if that's the case, that should hugely influence the oil market. Well, that's what they're trying to do. They're trying to influence the oil market by making false claims to make it appear that there's more oil out there than there really is. And we'll see how long the market makers go, you know, hold their fire or go start to go along with these lies, but they are lies.

20:04How do you see Larry, the role of China because China's and their economy, their market is absorbing a lot of these barrels. It's just receiving more oil from the West Asia and they somehow, since the war started, they were part of the game. How did you see their behavior so far? Well, initially they stopped buying oil on the international market to ease pressure. And then it was only after Trump walked away from the MOU, they said, screw it, we're going to buy oil. And so they're buying up stock helping increase the shortage around the globe. But China's got the added advantage and it's shifting a large segment of its industrial output to electric. Particularly electric vehicles. So whether they got gas and oil is not as much of a concern because they've got other alternative means of supply and energy, including solar and nuclear.

21:08Larry, does Russia and China, do you see any active, any sort of attempt on their part to, you remember when China decided to bring 14 factions in Palestine, bringing all the oil of them together to talk to find some sort of solution. And today, when China and Russia look at the region, the West Asia, what do they want from the region? What are the most important priorities for these two countries in the West Asia? Get the West Asians united and protecting themselves, push the United States out of West Asia. And then help those countries expand peaceful nuclear programs without outside interference or threats. You know, I think I think they'd be happy with that.

22:17Do you see the rise of today, I talk with Pepe Pepe Scobar. We were talking about the SEO and how it all started in 2001, Larry. Right. In June 2001. Yeah, it's a counterterrorism organization. And in 2000, what's important in 2001 that Russia, Larry Putin was elected in 2000. And he started fighting these salafi jihadis or these, you know, Wahhabis inside Russia, since 2000, you know, between 2000, 2010, if I'm not mistaken, for 10 years it was, he was fighting them. And in 2001, they started this SEO. And do you see the threat of having these radicals? I'm talking about the, I'll call it something like ISIS and al-Qaeda reshaping itself in the region.

23:23Yes, 2003. Al-Qaeda moved emerged in part because of the US intervention and attack on Iraq. And the, you know, Al-Jalani, he came out as a, when he was a much younger man, being part of the whole al-Qaeda, Nusra ISIS lash up. I think now he may be a little tired of, you know, trying to keep up with that old lifestyle. And the less you can't deny what he was a part of. But, you know, this is, this is another, I'll call it, penprick. United States trying to use limited military force to achieve a maximal objective. And as I've already pointed out, they, they failed in the first half of this.

24:23But when it comes to China, they, you know, these wiggers in China, and you go to the jashnaq, the Pakistan. And they're basically, they have the same concerns as Iran, with this Wahabi movement in the West Asia, in the, going to, from Syria to the Central Asia. How do you see the role of Turkey in that? Because it's so complex, we know that. But where do you find Turkey? Well, I think they, they are taking more initiative now. And trying to pull together this Muslim coalition. Of course, they will get to be the leader of it first off. So that's, that's good. That they're going to bring in more members and basically create a bulwark against Israel that Israel dare not attack, which will certainly derell and then rage the Zionists.

25:32But I think that's part of part of the intent of this. But you're muted. Can you hear me, Dari? I hear you now. Do you see Saudi Arabia under MBS being different from those days in 2001 that they supported somehow, I'll go at and these groups in the region. I think they'll, well, let me put, we'll see. I want to see what the dialogue is like when, you know, when they're talking to Turkey, you know, you get to get the conversations out loud or at least described in public. Right now, we don't know what's being said.

26:32It seems that today and despite, do you see Larry any sort of connection between the Kurdish people, the movement of those separatists, I'm talking about those who are being who have been used. Do you see any sort of connection between them and Al-Qaeda ISIS or somehow overlapping the objective in some areas. I don't see that at all. I think they are, the Kurds normally are ideologically predisposed to be opposed to that. And there's, then you also get into what I call the era of racism. So, a lot of the leaders of these, let's call it these extremist movements that are soony based tend to be somewhat racist. You know, they assume that if you're from Saudi, you're better than everybody else.

27:35If you're from Bishkack, I forget about your sort of a nobody. But to the extent that what they're up against is that I think out of this meeting in Estabul, the United Kingdom, France, all of Europe. They're now looking at a united Muslim front. And France and the UK have long been notorious for meddling, particularly with the Kurds with different factions. And that's one of the problems with the Kurds. They get a western sponsor, a western buddy, and then they will tend to try to see things through that western, that particular western lens. And it doesn't always mean that they come together united. So, the ones that are close to France, they close to France and don't get close to Germany.

28:37And same for the UK. The base of those Wahabi movements is the central Asia. I'm talking about the majority of these people who were part of the ISIS, Al Qaeda, and these groups. Okay. When we talk about the ISIS, Al Qaeda, and these forces, are they, because when you see the SCO, the main objective is coming to the central Asia. The main target is central Asia in the South Caucasus, somehow, in my opinion. To counter and to security, based on the security, bringing these countries together, the governments together, to make that, you know, to avoid those problems that China may face in Xinjiang.

29:37If that, the weaker part, Xinjiang, if I'm not mistaken. But that parts up in the mountains, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. They're not very mobile. You want forces that are in locations where it's easy to move from point A to point B. Also easy to be resupplied. Those guys stuck up in the mountains. I mean, you're in a way you get them out there. They're in the bird like a chicken, a dog's ass. Very deeply embedded. Yeah. So, I'm sticking with the, with the fact that the, the one thing if you had a united Kurdistan. You know, and across the board, they all were singing from the same, but they're not.

30:38They're internally divided. They're geographically divided. And they're easily played off one against another. Do you think that the SCO has achieved the security they wanted for the region, for the central Asia? Certainly took a step in that direction. So, when you said, as I wrote to sonar 21 last night, sonar 21 calm. The, just, just the oil producing nations of the SCO, they produced 80% of the oil that opact us. So they are, they're, and that means they are enormous economic force. They're not like some friends element. No, they're, they're now becoming mainstream. It was quite a, and we talked about this a little bit yesterday, just the juxtaposition of, you got the meeting of the, a lot of so-called G20, but it was only G19, because they didn't let the Russian in.

31:42The G19, you know, treasure, you know, finance ministers meeting the national North Carolina. Contrast that with the meeting of the SCO, which had, you know, roughly over 50% of the world, 60% of the world's population represented at that meeting between, you know, the, billions, the billion plus in China, the billion plus in India. You know, that's a lot of people that they represent. And there was, they came out very, very firm about supporting Iran. There was no fascination by anybody, especially India. That's what was no worthy. Because if you go back to late February before the war, before the US attack on Iran, and it was cosying up to the United States in Israel, it was distance itself, trying to distance itself from Russia, and it didn't care a damn about Iran.

32:54And Iran gets attacked, straight shut down, all of a sudden India is going, oh my God, we need oil, we need gas, where are we going to get it? And then Russia says, hey, we can help you out and they go, oh, thank God. Now they had a, this is sort of the sad thing for Turkey, they previously had an arrangement with Russia. And but because of their conduct, they've lost that mojo, you know, they initially. And so then when they come back and had to buy oil and gas from Russia, Russia didn't give it to him at the friend and family rate, given to him at the full rate. Because I think Russia recognizes whatever money they were going to pay, it's, it's really coming out of Western coffers. So he's taking money away from the West. That's what he's doing. And the SEO has its own bank, Larry. And if they have, they're that big when it comes to the oil production, oil and gas, it means that they can, you know, they have, they can have their own currency based on the oil.

34:09They effectively do working through China principally. But yeah, no, that was, you know, that was a clear message. We don't need you. We're fine. You know, oh, you can threaten us, you can do whatever you want, but it's not going to change the fact that we're economically, they can be economically self-sufficient. Where does that confidence come from Larry in Washington? Because you see no, they didn't care about the SEO summit. Basically, nobody was talking about something like a little party. They had this little kids at some point. Yeah, no, they really didn't understand. And remember, she was there, Putin was there, Modi was there, Posseshkin of Iran was there meeting with all three.

35:13You know, so it is, it's a reminder that this organization is politically powerful, economically powerful, and militarily powerful, particularly the Russians. Do you feel Larry as an outcome of this, where Russia has transformed its military? Because before the war in Ukraine started, the military industrial complex in Russia was not that powerful or producing too much amnesty or right, right, right, right, today has totally changed. It means that they can cooperate with the audience Chinese and other countries within SEO or within breaks to provide them with new weapons and new partnerships. And where do you see that going? It's a dead end.

36:13Yeah, we're going to supply weapons and who's going to use them, but the fact is they can't supply weapons. You know, pack three missiles, they're out of those. But they have none to supply. And again, I think that was one other factor contributing to Trump back and off because the recognize they're going to run into shortages, diesel and aviation fuel. But when it comes to the communications between the SEO countries and the cooperation militarily I'm talking about the weapons that they can share. I assume Russia has a lot of them because the war in Ukraine is not that much on the battlefield today. It's about hitting the tall Russia is using missiles and drones. And Ukraine is using drones. But when it comes to the air defense system, fire jets and other, you know, the missile technology, the reason new report that Russia has shared with the Iranians, the, you know, the system of ballistic missile, the cruise missile.

37:28It was a cruise missile, the technology of a cruise missile. They have shared with the Iranians and both are using the same technology. This is something new for these countries. No, look, that story that came out of the after you. Oh, my God, Russia, Russia is helping to quit Iran with so missile technology. You know, I've said another podcast. That's like the New York Times today. Just 45 minutes ago came out with an article. Oh, my God, the sun rose in the east. Oh, news flash. You know, the security cooperation between Russia and Iran has been underway for more than two years. And in fact, Russia was always willing to supply Iran with more. It was the Iran that sometimes is hesitant under former president Raeisi.

38:29Not now. And Russia's made it clear. Hey, we'll get and give you all we got to give. I don't think they'd give up noobs, but everything else. Russia's got superior production capability. And they're not constrained by having to go to the Chinese, hat and hand begging for rare earth minerals. They got them themselves. They process them themselves. How do you see the communications, military communications between Russia and China, Larry? I'm sure it's good. I'm sure they talked to them. I'm sure they've got a dedicated phone line set up where they can converse as needed. So. I'm talking basically about the training because China has never fought a war. And the way we did the new military they have. I'm talking about not all days.

39:32And do you think are they getting trained by Russians in. You mean the raw or China China? Yeah, well, that's why they when they do joint military exercises, that's when this training takes place. And both if they do the maritime ones and the ground operations, I don't really I don't think China is too concerned about US ground operations in China. How the hell we're going to get our property little, you know, we don't even have a half a billion. You know, soldiers, we don't even have a we barely have half a million. Not even that we have less than half a million soldiers. And so to build that up, that's going to take time. So despite all this, these promises and all we're going to do X, Y and Z. The fact of the matter is they can't fulfill those promises.

40:39Larry, there are two different concepts in Syria. When you look at the behavior of the Turkish government, they want a government in Syria to run the country. And they want that government be powerful, military, economically, geopolitically. But that's I think the main difference between Turkey and Israel in Syria is that. But Israel doesn't want that. Israel wants a governor in Syria who has nothing to, you know, to defend itself or has nothing to control the country. This is the basic problem, I think, for Washington to bring these two sides together. Because they're trying to communicate with both sides, but that didn't happen so far. No, they can't bring them together. And it's United States is just as much as spectator in this as anybody. They're having to rely upon up to this point, they relied upon Pakistani culture to play the role of intermediaries.

41:40But I know the Pakistanis are very frustrated with Trump. It's like, we go to the God's sacral. We gave him everything. You know, he's needed and he's still walked away from the agreement. And when I see gave everything, they essentially gave him a green light to let the oil, let the oil flow. Because right now you got a global shortage. And where you're going to get that shortage eventually turned around is by getting the oil flowing freely and it's not. Where do you think that the situation in Syria, as time goes by, is getting more radical. I'm talking about the way that, you know, the conflict between Turkey and Israel. Somewhere down the road, Washington would be able to do something to potentially. Yeah, can wins Israel. I'm not talking about because Israel wants them to be, you know, powerless.

42:50Yeah, and United States wants the opposite and United States can get what it wants if Trump has enough balls to do it until the Israeli is going to suck eggs. But I don't see Trump doing that. I assume it's not just about Turkey. So the Arabia wants that. That I want that. Yeah. Iran. I see the signs in the Iranian government. They want to have, you know, at least they want to end occupation of the southern part of Syria, which would be an outcome of a powerful government in Syria. This is basically you see a combination of US allies and US enemies all coming together in Syria. Yeah. And that's where there's a period of really think this policy through and have a strategic objective. So I said the United States is caught. It doesn't have any good military options.

43:57This diplomatic options are limited because both the ideological bend of the Zionist crowd in Washington, which is Jews and Gentiles. But that that pressure from from Washington is not going to allow Trump to make the concessions he need to make in order to actually get the oil flowing again. And even once you get the oil flowing again, just going to calendar and mark 42 days after that. And you know, when that when that oil is out, we're out. And that's, you know, they can trigger global recession at a minimum and potentially a global depression. And longer this goes on. So far, I've not heard anything from the Pakistanis about do they think this thing can get revived?

45:09What is the communication between Pakistan and the United States is a seeming new willing to continue with the phone calls. No, I mean, they're talking, but I don't think Trump is listening. If you were to Larry says today, with what has happened so far, do you see the willingness in the Trump administration to get back to the talks? And that would be or he basically trying to what is his main objective right now as time goes by for the rest of his term. No, he's made it clear that as you read the true social piece yourself about the scum and you know, we've got plenty of weapons. And we're doing just fine. You know, there's they've created a narrative that's not based on reality and they're going to continue to push that narrative.

46:16But where does he really want to be in the next, you know, two years of his two to an half years of his presidency is that the T for tat war is that, you know, the economic war on you know, combination of both. Say the first part again. Yeah, the rest of his presidency, he has something in his mind about what would be the strategy for the rest. Well, okay, strategy. I don't think he has one. All he has is a bag of coercion. Try to chorus. Iran now, you know, again, we've seen over the last eight weeks, he keeps flip flopping. One minute, they got an agreement to roll into live with next minute, they're not living by the agreement. Then they decide they're going to apply military pressure. They did military attacks and the straight over three weeks.

47:23Then they said, stop. No, no, we're going to do economic pressure. And we got, you know, best in two weeks ago, economic D day. Then all of a sudden, they're back to two days of kinetic activity, trying to chorus. And none of it's working. So, you know, I think I think I don't think Trump's going to do much between now and the midterms. I don't think he wants to get involved with, you know, big back and forth trading shots with Iran. Because if that continues up to the midterms, that's just destroying that he's got us in a war that he can't win. And that's one more that JD Vance is going to have to put in the lost column. Yeah. Thank you so much, Larry, for being with us today. And I'm going to respond to that email. I haven't seen that, but I'm going to respond to I'm going to check it out.

48:25I know, I know you will. Yeah. I'm just giving you a hard time. Just just just a father harassing his son. Until your own father, I'm not trying to replace him. I know he's not replaceable. But I'll be the adopted parent here. Yeah, sure. Thank you, Larry. We'll see if we talk tomorrow. Yeah, see you. Bye. Okay. Bye.