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"Shipping through the Bab el-Mandab, uh, strait being significantly affected yet?" I

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think it's starting to be affected, but obviously, if the, if the, um, if the, uh,

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the Houthis do actually, uh, conquer it, then it will be affected.

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And basically, it means that Iran will then be able to affect, uh, even greater

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shipping routes because Houthis are Iran at the end of the day.

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And what this probably is, is a play by Iran.

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Not probably, it is a play by Iran to basically put more and more pressure, uh, on

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international shipping lanes, on trade, um, perhaps punish, uh, President

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Trump at the midterms because they know how much, um, the price of oil is going up,

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and that means the price of gas is going up, something that President Trump very much

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tried to get under control, and now it's back over a hundred dollars a barrel.

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Uh, so things are not looking good. So if they do conquer, uh, the Bab el-Mandab

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strait, then certainly there can be no, or it's significantly less likely

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that, uh, President Trump will be able to get the price of gas down, uh, before the

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midterms, and that probably will have a significant effect on those elections.