Joe Zacks
Leo Tolstoy wrote in War and Peace, “Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait…There is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time.” This adage is apt for the current moment in the war with Iran. The US naval blockade near the Strait of Hormuz flips Iran’s own strategic script back on the regime. It turns the economic hardship that Tehran intends to inflict on the world back to its source, and the result will be the United States and Iran negotiating a settlement to the current conflict.
For the United States to get what it wants and needs in a deal will take strategic patience and time—two commodities in needlessly short supply here. Unfortunately, this means that worldwide gas prices will continue to increase and fertilizer and other essential commodities will remain in short supply for the foreseeable future. We need to be ready to accept this. Regardless of whether one supported this conflict or not, it is too late to turn back the clock.
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