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And how does the Strait of Hormuz play into all this, right?

Maybe outside of just, let's say, gas prices.

I know I looked it up right before our chat here, and I think gas prices have went up around 40, 50 percent since February 28th.

But outside of that, how important is that region?

Well, there's two ways the Strait of Hormuz is important, Will.

You put your finger on one and then said, let's not talk about that, but let's talk about that way just a little bit it.

The thing that's important to know about those gas prices going up, and you just pointed out,

gone up 40 % for six months, so a long period of time,

not just a week or two or a few days where we had a scare.

That has not happened in that 35 -year period called the post -Cold War period,

where we fought a war and American gas prices went up.

Now, we fought a war against Saddam Hussein, Iraq, 1991.

We fought, we intervened in Bosnia in 1995.

We intervened in Kosovo, 1999.

These are in the Balkans against essentially Serbia.

Then Afghanistan, we topple the Taliban, 2001.

That touches off a 20 -year forever war in Afghanistan.

Then, 2003, we invade, occupy, conquer Iraq, an oil -rich country, by the way, in 2003, touches off a forever war.

And for most of America, they barely knew that happened except for the opening days

and weeks of those wars because they were on TV for a while.

Then they fell off of television because very little cost hit America in their pocketbook.

And if you were to look from 1991 to today on an annual basis and look at America's GDP,

whether it's been up those years or down, you would see in the years of all those wars I just laid out,

we grew, and sometimes quite well.

Well, the times we went down 2007, the great housing crisis, the time we went down, COVID took us down.

This may ultimately end up looking more like the housing crisis and COVID.

It certainly doesn't look like those other wars.

So that first dimension of Hormuz being disruptive, that has touched

Americans in ways the other wars, forever or not since 1991,

have not that's a very big change so that that

so I don't want to overlook that because you put your finger on it that's how people it's touching

Americans and that's special

and it might get worse in fact I think

there's a good chance it'll get worse before it gets better over the next not just week

or two but between now and January but the second point on Hormuz is with respect to Iran's power.

So the Strait of Hormuz has been there for pretty much forever in history, right?

That is a geographic fact of life.

But what's changed is up until February 28, that strait, you could say,

was an international waterway or was under the control of the United States.

Either of those would be a fine interpretation of events.

What changed starting on February 28 and changed within a day, literally a day, was Iran shut down the Strait of Foremost.

Iran decides who goes through the Strait of Foremost.

And it shut it down, well, not in a crude, blunt way where nobody can pass through the Strait of Foremost.

Essentially, it's a selective blockade.

Iran decides on a daily basis which ships it's going to allow without threatening them

and which ships it's going to threaten or actually attack.

And that's happening literally in the last few days.

So this is ongoing.

It's not that Iran attacks a ship every day, but it doesn't need to attack a ship every day.

One a week, one every couple of days, that's plenty in order to assert control over the Strait of Hormuz.

That is a big change.

It's a change not just in the status of Hormuz,

but it's a change in the latent power of Iran because Hormuz is that choke point that's got its,

it's like a hand on the throat of 20 % of the world's oil.

It's almost like a hand on your carotid artery.

It's that important.

The biggest artery of oil and energy in the world is the Strait of Hormuz.

That's like our carotid artery, the biggest, most important artery in our body. And Iran...

now has control of that, which is future wealth, future income.

It's not that it makes so much money on that today.

It's that if we let that stand, and right now it looks like we can't stop it.

I don't think we can stop it.

But if we let that stand, Iran will gain $100 billion a year,

maybe more year after year within a short period of time it'll be more wealthy than the richest of the Gulf states

Saudi Arabia within a short period of time it will have the military wherewithal to extend its influence

and influence the nature of the governments in those

Gulf states It will be able, within a short period of time,

to extend its military influence and reach to shut down the Red Sea,

the Suez Canal, to control the other arteries.

So we talk about the carotid artery.

Well, there are other arteries.

Think about the big artery in your leg, in the femoral artery.

Iran will be able, over time, to be able to control all of those arteries in the Middle East.

That's an enormous, and more wealth will come from that.

That's an enormous amount of power.

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That means if that were to stand, just the control of Hormuz,

it will expand like a set of concentric circles until Iran becomes the fourth center of world power.

Wow that's a stunning change america will likely still be uh

at least on paper the strongest country in the world followed by china followed by russia

but now iran will be elevated from a weak state

and maybe declining state in the middle east to the fourth center of world power more powerful than India,

more powerful than Pakistan, more powerful than Brazil.

This is quite a shift in world power,

and it all happened from February 28 to March 1.

Think about that.

That's never happened in history.

We've seen other powers go from being regional or modest -sized powers to large powers.

We've seen geography play a role.

We've seen technology play

But to have it happen in a snap like that?

Stunning.

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Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “War Expert Reveals BRUTAL Truth About Iran’s Power Grab”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: Hormuz, iran, strait, artery, period. Deze video bevat 102 zinnen en 1199 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 8:14. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 146 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 86% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
artery zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɑɹ.təɹ.i/	slagader, arterie
strait zelfstandig naamwoord	/stɹeɪt/	zeestraat, straat
finger zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈfɪŋɡɚ/	vinger
essentially bijwoord	/ɪˈsɛnʃəli/	essentieel
extend werkwoord	/ɛkˈstɛnd/	uitbreiden
enormous bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ɪˈnɔː.məs/	enorm, gigantisch
subscribe werkwoord	/səbˈskɹaɪb/	abonneren
threaten werkwoord	/ˈθɹɛt.n̩/	bedreigen, dreigen
intervene werkwoord	/ˌɪntəˈviːn/	ingrijpen, interveniëren
decline werkwoord	/dɪˈklaɪn/	afnemen, terugvallen
extraordinary bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/	buitengewoon
expand werkwoord	/ɪkˈspænd/	vergroten, uitbreiden
genius zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈd͡ʒin.jəs/	genie
ongoing bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ɒnˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/	lopend, in uitvoering
throat zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈθɹoʊt/	keel

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Betekenis
go down werkwoord	afdalen
shut down werkwoord	afsluiten, uitzetten
end up werkwoord	belanden, terechtkomen
point out werkwoord	aanwijzen, aanduiden

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

Maybe outside of just, let's say, gas prices.
It's almost like a hand on your carotid artery.
I don't think we can stop it.
All right, let's get back to the episode.
We've seen geography play a role.

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

Structuur	In de video
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt	has not happened · it's been · has touched
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding	that, which is · someone who could

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 14 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, we've, doesn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De “th”-klanken: threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, throat /ˈθɹoʊt/, wealthy /ˈwɛl.θi/, wherewithal /ˈwɛɚ.wɪ.ðɔl/
De klanken “sh” en “zh”: essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, interpretation /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/, passionate /ˈpæʃənɪt/, dimension /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, interpretation /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, geography /d͡ʒiˈɑɡɹəfi/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: extend /ɛkˈstɛnd/, subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/, expand /ɪkˈspænd/, crude /kɹuːd/, selective /səˈlɛktɪv/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: expand /ɪkˈspænd/, snap /snæp/, passionate /ˈpæʃənɪt/, geographic /d͡ʒiəˈɡɹæfɪk/
/g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: finger /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/, ongoing /ɒnˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/, geography /d͡ʒiˈɑɡɹəfi/, geographic /d͡ʒiəˈɡɹæfɪk/

Zo oefen je met deze video

Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als artery, strait, finger.

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