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That one reads as a pretty solid perspective piece. It leans more on framing and tone than hard facts, so Iâd treat it as âhereâs how this looks from that angleâ rather than a complete picture.
If you want, I can give you the quick take on what itâs saying and where it feels thin.
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Chapter 1: Media and Right-Wing Doom
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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the daily signal. I know a lot of you have been exasperated by the reaction to the Iran war from the Democratic
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grandees in the House and Senate, the liberal media, the New York Times, particularly the Washington Post, NPR,
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PBS, the network, even the Wall Street Journalâs news section. And then we have some people on the right who have also looked at the war and said it was lost,
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it went south, it was going to World War II, blah blah blah. All of them share one thing in common. Excuse me. Two
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things in common. One, they wanted it not to go well. Wanted it not to go well because it would reflect badly on Donald
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Trump and his administration. And if you were a Democrat, that would give you some momentum going into the midterms.
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And if you were a disaffected former supporter, it would prove to the world that you were right all along and Donald Trump is reckless and got us into a
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forever unwinable war. But whatever the particular reason was, both of them were not historical analyses. Both these
Chapter 2: Demanding Data, Not Spin
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people never were empirical. They were never historical. had they looked at Americaâs wars in World War II,
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Korea, Vietnam, and more importantly,
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more recently the bombing campaign in Serbia or the bombing campaign in Libya or the first Gulf War or the second Gulf
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War or the Afghan, they would have come up with some data, some information, and then they could have compared this particular engagement and compared it
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with the others. or they could have said to themselves, Iâm not going to prejudice what happens. Iâm going to look exactly what the data is on the
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ground. How many missiles were destroyed? Who was taken out?
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Have they taken out the Israeli commander command and control? Have they shot down 45 miss uh planes as they did
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during the first Gulf War, US craft? And then they could have come up with a reasoned analysis. But they didnât do that. They didnât do that. But the
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evidence was there. The evidence was there. In the first five weeks, the United States with the Israeli Air Force
Chapter 3: Iran Leadership in Chaos
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wiped out most of the top echelon of the four ruling clicks in the Iranian nation. That would be the Islamic
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Revolutionary Guard Corps, the regular army,
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the theocratic apparatic such as they do have elections. All four
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of them were a trident. And right now they would also say to themselves that they are motivated by two or three
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catalysts that explain everything they say. One, they donât know who is in charge, and theyâre all grasping for
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power, and theyâre all terrified somebody is in charge that they donât know about. Two, theyâve seen 30, 40, 50
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people taken out, and they donât want to identify and be a leader and be dead.
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Three, theyâre competing for power. And that manifests itself in two ways.
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Number one, theyâre afraid of the hardliners. So they send out communicates, they freelance, not official all the time, and they want to
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sound harder than the other person. So theyâre not accused of being soft.
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Usually the um theocratic click, whatâs left of it, or the revolutionary guard,
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whatâs left of it, accuses the politicians and the army of being too soft.
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And the final catalyst that explains this crazy stuff that emanates from Iran is theyâre afraid of the Iranian people.
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The Iranian people are sick and tired.
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Before the war even started, the hyperinflation was strangling them. They couldnât afford gas. They couldnât afford food. They canât go out of the country. They couldnât get and itâs 10
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times worse now. And theyâre going to be restive just like during the fall of the Berlin Wall. It didnât you didnât see a revolution immediately.
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was weeks and months in Eastern Europe and two years in this Soviet Union before it became Russia again. That
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means in the next two years I think youâre going to see a lot of popular resistance and these people know it and they know that if they go down theyâre
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going to be what the theyâre going to have a Nermberg wart crimes trial and the people are going to take it out on them.
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So they donât know where the nexus of power is. So it is confused but people couldnât just accept that they had to
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say Donald Trump got us in a forever war even though we had tragically but lost 13 or 14 or 15 depending on the the
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calculus we use soldiers. We never have had a war like that before. Weâve never taken on a country of 93 million people
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that had the most fearsome, terrible reputation of being dangerous and unpredictable and running the Middle East with a ring of fire proxies in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Gaza, Lebanon.
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Indomitable had terrified seven presidents and yet five weeks we destroyed its ability to
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make war. Yes, they have a few drones, a few ballistic missiles. They can cause damage, but not if that damage will be
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replied to as Donald Trump has warned them by the destruction of their al oil capacity or their electrical generation,
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which all presidents had done. We did it to Serbia. We did things to Libya. We did uh first Gulf War. It meaning dual
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use. We took out bridges. We took out generation. We did in World War II. We did in Korea. We did in Vietnam. Donald Trumpâs the first president that hasnât done that in a widescale fashion.
Chapter 4: Three-Phase War Strategy
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So what has happened? It took four or five weeks in the country of that size area and population to find these
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tunnels, to find these hidden hairfields, to find these silos, to find these people in bunkers. And
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systematically we got to the point where their military is almost gone. Then the next stage happened. Trump said to them,
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âWe can have a negotiation style if you meet our demands.â And that was to it was self-interested in the sense that
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he wanted a peace so that prices would go down, oil would be more available,
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the midterms are coming up, but it was also to let the regime, such as as it was after this main luminaries had been
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killed, it was to give them a chance and show the world that Trump was not a madman. and he was willing to negotiate
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and they of course said no. They said no because they hoped that popular resistance in Europe and popular
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resistance in the Democratic party and on the left and on the the old some of the MAGA apostates on the right, they would so pressure Trump that he would
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give in to them. He didnât. So that was obvious. Heâs never given in to anybody.
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Heâs always done what he thought was right, whether you agree with it or not.
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So then we came into the third phase. We had the destruction of the military number one. Number two, we had the negotiation cycle and now itâs the
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ultimate and and finale to the war and that is economic strangulation. Iran walked right put their head right into a
Chapter 5: Hormuz Gambit Backfires
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noose. They said weâre going to shut down the straight of our muzz and only us only us can determine who gets in and who gets out and they have to be pro
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Iranian and weâre not going to let Gulf states sell oil. Haha. weâre going to and everybody said, âOh, that was brilliant.â The left went crazy. He was
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delighted. Oh my gosh, the Pentagon was caught unprepared. And the Pentagon had been preparing that for 50 years.
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Under Reagan, they opened it. They know how to do it. So all that Trump said is thatâs a good idea. Shut down the
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straight and let in the good guys and stop the bad guys. But your bad guys are our good guys and your good guys are our
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bad guys. So, weâre going to take a page out of your book and weâre not going to let in anybody anywhere near Iran
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and weâre going to let in everybody else. And the difference between the strategies is not just that we flipped it, but you have no wherewithal. PT
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boats and a bunch of minds wonât stop us, but we have a huge fleet and that will stop you from stopping us. And if
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you decide that you want to send the the remnants of your missiles into the Gulf or Israel or at our fleet, go ahead.
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Because we havenât even decided to hit dual use targets yet. Weâre not like Barack Obama in Libya and taking out
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television stations and ports. Weâre not like Bill Clinton in Serbia that destroyed every bridge on the Danube and took out their grid of a million and a
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half people. Weâre not Harry Truman that destroyed all the hydroelectric plants in North Korea. We let you off easy. It doesnât mean thereâs not an American tradition of hitting dual use targets.
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So, weâre going to hit your electrical and put you in darkness and weâre going to hit Caron or take it. Weâll either take the oil and rob it from you or
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take. And what was the result of all that in the last 48 hours? Ships are coming in that we let and ships are not coming in that we donât let. And people,
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economists at the major research universities in Europe, the United States, have now flipped on a dime and theyâre actually looking in empirical
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fashion at last at what this means. And the ranges are absolutely stunning. $400
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million and more per day lost economically to Iran. Whether thatâs lack of oil sales or prochemical sales
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or lack of key imported imported mechanical goods, electrical goods that keep their infrastructure running or
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food. Theyâre in dire straits. Theyâre losing all of their income from the straight of our moves and theyâre losing
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all of their income from the prochemical and oil. And they were broke to begin with and they canât do anything about it because Trump did it sequentially.
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Military first, chance of negotiation second, put the boot on the neck third.
Chapter 6: Endgame and Final Warning
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So what is going to happen now? Youâre going to see two things. Two things,
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possibly three. They may decide they want to go down in a blaze of glory and empty their arsenal of remnant ballistic missiles and drones. If they do that,
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they will be in darkness and they will have no oil for the next 10 years. So that weâll see if thereâs ser heads
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among them. Number two, they have a choice to agree to negotiations.
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And this time theyâre not going to have every click saying 15 here and 10 demands here. And no, no, theyâre just going to have 10. And if they donât
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abide by them, the United States can force them to abide by them.
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Or they can just simply give up. Give up. No demands, nothing. Just say weâre
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done. And theyâre going to have a And what I meant by give up is the regime gives up. I donât know if itâs going to be immediate, but the people take over.
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All of those are favorable uh results for us. And so to conclude,
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I donât think that itâs a very wise thing every 24 hours to be sit glued to your computer or the television and
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whatever a pundit on the left or a Democratic senator says or dis disgruntled person on the right says,
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then take that as gospel and not look at the data, not look at the evidence thatâs out there to examine both, as I said, empirically or historically.
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Because if you did do that, you could see there was very, very little chance of winning. Thereâs only one last caveat.
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Iran is ruined militarily and itâs going to be ruined economically if it doesnât give in. And there theyâre now going to
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negotiate on a different with a different attitude.
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If you believe that they will abide by a demand that weâve given them, no nuclear material for 20 years, whatever it is,
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then you have to believe that they will never break their word. I donât think theyâve ever kept their
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word. And number two, that there will be a president someday like Camela Harris,
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Gavin Newsome, Pete Buddajjig, Cy Booker, and people of that caliber and
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mindset would enforce every one of those negoti those negotiated demands. And I donât think uh they will
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ever tell the truth or honor any of their commitments. And I donât think that the next U left-wing or Democratic president would ever force them to,
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which means we better get them to surrender unconditionally or face economic ru ruin, which will usher in a
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regime change. Thank you very much. This is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal.
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I like that guy listened to him before .
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Yeah â if itâs just that summary block, I can read it and give you the quick take from the transcript text you pasted. That said, I canât really judge the hidden part itself unless you paste more than the summary.
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