Ben Rhodes: Indefinite Hormuz Blockade Would Cost U.S. ‘Hundreds of Billions of Dollars’

RUSH EXCERPT:

RHODES: “Well, it would require, essentially the United States to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to sustain this kind of force deployment. It would require it would cause grave harm to the global economy, because so long as we’re blockading Iran and they’re blockading the strait, there are these shortages that are continuing to grow, not just of of oil and gas, but of fertilizer and helium. And so the prices of everything would go up and look, it would also require the United States to let down its guard everywhere else in the world. I mean, to sustain this kind of massive military deployment around Iran. We’ve already moved munitions and defensive weaponry from places like South Korea, from Europe, you know, so if you’re China or Russia, you’re thinking, well, the United States is going to sit there in a pointless, forever war, accomplishing nothing, doing”