A Little Belgium Cherub Gets to Pee in Trump's Pool

Iran, Hormuz, another tanker on fire - sure, fine, but the real question is: what's actually driving the behavior here, and it's not the diplomacy everyone keeps quoting. Marko and Jacob argue it out: chokepoint tolls, the memorandum nobody trusts, oil prices doing more work than anyone wants to admit. Then Europe, because apparently that's still a thing - NATO's arms-deal theater, Le Pen's conviction, a French case nobody's making. And yes, the World Cup gets its forty minutes. It's a good one.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) - Welcome and Episode Preview

(01:00) - World Cup vs World News

(02:03) - Hormuz Tanker Attacks

(03:07) - Oil Prices Drive Reality

(30:52) - Phony Russia Sanctions

(32:46) - Europe Rearms and Le Pen

(37:36) - Ukraine Stalemate and Crimea

(47:33) - World Cup Trump and FIFA

(01:02:20) - Birthright Soccer Paradox