max, good morning. always good to see you. so this seizure comes on the heels of the secretary of state blinken s trip to the region. he was trying to cool tensions. what do you think this means in the context of that? i think it has been interpreted a lot of people in the region are quite confused by it. a whole week shuttling through the region trying to talk about not allowing the gaza war to inflame the region and widen the war. snd an as soon as get to the end of the week, u.s. and ucuk fighter taking out the houthi targets. that will inflame tensions in the region. so that is how it is being interpreted. from the western perspective, this is about protecting a waterway that is key to the global economy and if it is blocked, global inflation goes
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