I'm not here to tell you whether we should be at war with Iran. I'm here to give you facts.

First fact: I'm impressed that the American people won't let the government tell us this isn't a war. In Russia, state media still calls the invasion of Ukraine a "special military operation." You can't rename the Department of Defense the Department of War and then tell the American people that what we're doing isn't a war.

Second fact: The ships that carry crude oil and liquefied natural gas are floating bombs. You make liquefied natural gas by cooling something that's in a gaseous form until it becomes liquid. So these are essentially ships carrying massive amounts of flammable material through one of the most strategic chokepoints in the world—the Strait of Hormuz.

Third fact: Oil prices. As of this writing, crude oil is trading around $99.84 per barrel (Brent crude). That's nearly $30 higher than this time last year.

And here's where it gets twisted.

Giving Putin a Win to Lower Gas Prices

The United States just reduced sanctions against Russia for 30 days—trying to lower the price of oil. This is doing nothing but giving Vladimir Putin a political and economic win. We are literally helping to fund the war against Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said it directly: "This easing alone by the United States could provide Russia with about $10 billion for the war. This certainly does not help peace."

Russia's oil now trades at over $80 per barrel—up from under $40 in December when sanctions were actually working. Russian oil revenues are up 14% during the Iran war. Putin's daily oil revenue increased because we needed cheap oil and gave him a free pass to sell it.

Meanwhile, Ukraine is selling the technology they developed against Iranian drones—the same drones Russia uses against them—to Gulf states to help protect their people and U.S. bases. Ukraine went from having almost no domestic drone industry to becoming one of the world's leading producers of interceptor drones. They're exporting expertise to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and Jordan.

Ukrainian interceptor drones cost $1,000 to $2,000. Iranian Shahed drones cost around $30,000. The U.S. and Gulf states were burning through Patriot missiles at $13.5 million per shot to knock down $30,000 drones. Ukraine solved that problem under live fire. Nobody else has.

So now Ukraine—the country Trump cut off from military aid—is being asked to defend U.S. bases in the Middle East while we simultaneously ease sanctions on Russia, who's supplying Iran with intelligence to target those same bases.

You can't make this up.

Trump and Putin

I'm assuming this doesn't bother Donald Trump very much. He seems to be in the back pocket of Vladimir Putin. Which should alarm everyone.

We're now asking the UK government for help. We're asking them to send their Royal Navy to help us de-mine the Strait of Hormuz.

I get a lot of news from the BBC. It's not filled with the propaganda from our current government.

The Bottom Line

I'm not an expert in any of this. I'm sharing the knowledge I've acquired.

I'm not going to sit here and try to tell you whether or not we should be in this war. But it was a war of choice.

And now we're in a position where we're easing sanctions on Russia—funding Putin's war machine—so we can lower gas prices caused by a war we chose to start.

That's what's happening.