oil resources in the Middle East. Why haven't we been unaffective? Like like obviously we have vastly superior military capability or whatever. This is a specific question about Iran and the straight of Hormuz, but also you know people used to call Afghanistan the graveyard of empires. Like why do world powers seem to have such a difficult time being effective at all in the Middle East? Well, I think some of it is what we've also seen with Russia is the erosion of deterrence. What you don't want to do is help Ukraine win a war
oil resources in the Middle East.