 Oh, there's this massive ship. It's massive. It's one of these super container ships that has run aground in the Suez Canal. And is, I just remember an Israeli military intelligence war story I could tell you. Do you want to hear an Israeli military military, I wonder if I'd re-violating any secrecy laws in Israel if I told you the story about running aground. That could be interesting. I don't know who's gonna, who's gonna put some good super chat money on the table so that I tell you some Israeli. I'm trying to think of all the details of the story, but yeah, running aground, I just, the Suez Canal running aground right now just, it just flashed in front of me. This experience I had in the Israeli army. Okay, I'll tell you that story after I tell you about, particularly if somebody puts in a good amount on the super chat, I definitely will tell you. But let me see if I, there you go, Ryan's put in 20 American dollars in for that. So I'll tell you, but let me start with the Suez Canal. Massive ship, running aground the Suez Canal. The Suez Canal is, you know, it's hard to, it's hard to, you know, hard to emphasize enough the importance of the Suez Canal to global trade. I mean, it is the major link between Asia, China, India, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, all the industrial nations of Asia and Europe, basically all the imports from China and from all those other Asian countries coming to Europe go through the Suez Canal. It's so much cheaper than going around the Horn of Africa. And this is why it was built because it's a massive shortcut to allow trade between Europe and Asia, which is a massive benefit to Europe and Asia. So stopping the Suez Canal is a massive disruption to global trade, a massive disruption to wealth creation and to both Asia and Europe. I don't know how much trade goes through the Suez Canal that comes to the United States because I think most of it goes through the Pacific to either San Francisco or Los Angeles or through the Panama Canal to the East Coast. I don't know what the numbers are, but I assume some of the trade goes through the Suez Canal to the United States. This is a massive disruption. But think about it. Who is responsible for the Suez Canal? Who maintains it? Who maintains its depth, its widths? Who maintains the pilot boats? These massive ships through the canal. Who maintains the functioning of one of the most, maybe the most important, narrow shipping lane in the world, in the entire world? Now you say Egyptians, but who do these Egyptians actually work for? Well, the Egyptian government does. Scott says the UK, Audrey says the Andrew says the UK and neither of those are true. It's the Egyptian government. Now I don't know how many of you know the story of the Suez Canal, but the Suez Canal was dug by the British and the French. It was dug by private corporations. I think, I don't have the whole history in front of me, but late 19th century, early 20th century, when Egypt was under basically British control, call it. And it was a joint French-British project, basically because it was massive, massive, really important for the British and the French to increase trade between Europe and Asia. So this is an 18th century project built privately by French and British businesses. And indeed, those French and British businesses ran the Suez Canal. They owned the Suez Canal. They took revenue out of the Suez Canal, maintained the waterway, made sure it was deep enough, made sure it was wide enough through 1956. And then in 1956, a military dictator of Egypt, Nasser, Nasser, N-A-S-A-A-R, something like that, right? Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal. He just stole it from British and French, legit corporations, businesses. The Suez Canal was private. Now, it wasn't Anthony Eden who screwed it up because Anthony Eden, together with, I don't know who was president of France at the time, maybe it was Charles de Gaulle, actually sent troops. They parachuted troops onto the Suez Canal. They occupied both sides of the Suez Canal, drove back the Egyptian military, and basically declared that they were gonna defend the private property of French and British corporations to this vital, vital national interests of both France and England. Israel at the same time, in coordination with the French and the British, invaded the Sinai, which had been a hornet's nest of terrorism supported and supplied by the Egyptians that were crossing over the border in the negative in the south of Israel and killing Americans. And Israel took the Sinai theirs at 1956. The Egyptians, sorry, the French and the British held the Suez Canal. And I can't remember how long they stayed there, but not very long. Why? Why did they leave? Who forced them to leave? Suddenly not the Egyptian military, which both Israel had whipped and the British and French had whipped. Who, I ask you on the super chat, who forced them to leave the Suez Canal, to hand it over to the Egyptian authorities, Israel to evacuate the Sinai desert, Jimbo, Nikolas, you are right. It was the United States of America, the Eisenhower administration. President Eisenhower. Oh my God, a Republican. How can this be true? I thought Republicans were pure good. Eisenhower forced them to retreat. By the way, this was a signal to Saudi Arabia and to Iran that they could go ahead and continue to nationalize American oil in those places and America would do nothing about it. So Eisenhower forced everybody to back away. Israel backed out of the Suez Canal, backed away from the Sinai desert with the agreement that the United Nations would occupy the Sinai desert and that the Egyptians were banned, outlawed, from bringing troops into the Sinai desert that could threaten Israel. That all changed, if you just a little bit of more of history, in 1967, in the spring of 1967, where Nasser, the same Nasser, ordered massive numbers of troops into the Sinai desert and massed them on the Israeli border. In spite of the barring by the Americans and by the United Nations, he told the UN to go take a hike. And that's what led to the 1967 war, which is known as the Six-Day War. Yeah, yeah, Eisenhower was the establishment. Who wasn't exactly the establishment? All right, all right. So, oh good, I'm seeing a bunch of you have ridden Senator Wad, good for you, good for you. So that was, okay, so my take on the Swiss Canal is it should be French and British. It should be in private hands. They should be a profit motive to keeping it running well. What was Eisenhower's rationale? Good question, Richard. Richard usually doesn't ask me good questions, but this is a good question. Yeah, I'm sorry if I'm insulting you, Richard, but sometimes you were pest on the chat. Why did Eisenhower support the withdrawal, or not support, basically encourage, twist the arm off the French and the British to retreat? I wonder if anybody knows. The official reason was, and I think this was the real reason, but this is what's called real politic. The reason was that Nasser was quoting the Soviet Union. And the United States was afraid that Egypt would become, come under the sway, under the influence of the Soviet Union. Nasser was considering building a mass of dam, the Anwar Dam, and was considering different companies, including American and Soviet companies, to build that dam. And Eisenhower figured that if he'd go in with Nasser on this one, Nasser would then not go in with the Soviets and become a friend of the United States. Guess what happened? Nasser said good that you kicked out the French and the British and the Israelis. We're gonna go with the Soviets anyway. And Nasser became basically a satellite of the Soviet Union. It became a huge friend of the Soviet Union, the Soviets build the dam. They provided the Egyptians with massive quantities of weapons. Indeed, Egypt and the Soviet Union were buddy, buddy, right up to the early 1970s up until the Yom Kippur War in 1973, after which Egypt slowly started moving away and started moving towards the United States. And the United States started giving, and then after the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel, the United States started giving Egypt as many billions dollars a year as they do to Israel. 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