Podbit · The Tucker Carlson Show
One-third of global agricultural base supplies flow through the Strait of Hormuz. America is in planting season. The urea fertilizer shortage won't hit grocery shelves this year — but next year's food prices could be catastrophic. Add the screwworm parasite re-emerging in Texas cattle, and the food security picture is grim.
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Tucker asks the practical question: what does the administration actually need to do to turn the MOU into a real peace? Weichert's first suggestion is almost comic: stop having Trump tweet that he's going to kill the negotiators. More substantively, he argues the two-party dynamic between the US and Iran is manageable — but Israel's refusal to consider itself bound by negotiations it isn't party to makes lasting peace structurally impossible. He predicts the tariff model: endless 45-60 day extensions, never a final deal. He also introduces a wild card: Israel has a cluster of Dolphin-class submarines, believed to carry nuclear-tipped cruise missiles, potentially positioned off the Iranian coast. The Iranians, for their part, will use the full 30 days allocated to reopen the strait and won't rush — they've learned never to trust American commitments. The US SPR is hitting bottom barrel, with only about 100 million truly usable barrels, meaning the political pressure will mount rapidly.
Although the official US Strategic Petroleum Reserve count is 340 million barrels, an oil expert told Weichert that only about 100 million barrels are actually usable due to salt cavern contamination.
One-third of the world's agricultural base supplies pass through the Strait of Hormuz, meaning its closure threatens global food security.
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