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Bonus Episode 168 - Matteo Capasso

The East is a Podcast

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The Double Edged Sword Nature of Geopolitical Power

In Iran in the 80s, they actually bomb tankers. The US is so intensely like covetous of its position in the global oil market that it has to be the man in charge and punish anybody who squanders this precious resource. In part of that punishment of the Iran was the so called tanker wars bombing oil tankers I mean to this day they're still taking the hostage. There's an Iranian tanker that's being held hostage in that was basically common deer and taken over to Houston and companies are afraid to unload it because they run they know that Iran or retaliate against any company involved in that as Iran controls the Persian Gulf. It could have been for the jammer he

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