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Within a matter of weeks, Iran’s ability to wage war has been rendered inert by American and Israeli forces.

Over the course of seven U.S. presidencies, Iran—the most populous Middle Eastern country—developed a self-inflated view of itself. But why?

Whether through the Biden-backed Iran nuclear deal or Barack Obama’s “creative tension” approach to Middle East conflicts, numerous U.S. administrations gave the Iranian regime the impression that the Western world was afraid of them.

Then Trump called their bluff, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

(00:00) Iran War Status Check

(01:12) How Tehran Misread Obama Biden

(03:23) Myth of Iranian Invincibility

(05:12) October 7 Changed Israel

(06:37) Negotiations and Endgame

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We spent a year as the Commonwealth of Virginia birthing 94,000 babies and taking the lives of 38,000.

That means we are aborting about a quarter of our next generation.

We've gotten to the point where there's a volume of Virginians that have decided they don't care about the unborn. They’re fine with late term abortions, argues Victoria Cobb, president of the Family Foundation of Virginia on today’s Daily Signal podcast with host Joe Thomas.  
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The legacy media, the so-called anti-MAGA Right, and the Democrat grandees in Congress have two things in common:

They never wanted the U.S.-Iran war to go in America’s favor.

Many of the critiques of Operation Epic Fury were not historically empirical, meaning they didn’t compare the ongoing conflict with Iran to past U.S. wars, such as the bombing campaign in Serbia or even the war in Afghanistan.

But the evidence—in five weeks alone, the United States, with the Israeli Air Force, wiped out most of the top echelon of the four ruling cliques in the Iranian nation—was there, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words”:

“We’ve never taken on a country of 93 million people 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—indomitable. They had terrified seven presidents. And yet, in five weeks, we destroyed its ability to make war.”(00:00) Media and Right-Wing Doom

(01:09) Demanding Data, Not Spin

(02:18) Iran Leadership in Chaos

(05:52) Three-Phase War Strategy

(07:29) Hormuz Gambit Backfires

(10:27) Endgame and Final Warning 

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Operation Epic Fury was never the pretext for a larger, endless war, and the so-called anti-MAGA right—Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, or Marjorie Taylor Greene—should know better than to label it as such, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

The whole subtext of the Iran campaign is this: While regime change is not the primary agenda, America’s weakening of the regime may spur people to rise up and overthrow the government.

(00:00) Anti MAGA Critics

(01:34) Iran Strikes Backlash

(02:34) Not a Forever War

(04:10) Trump Rhetoric and Restraint

(06:15) Betrayal or Bigger Agenda

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We don't know what the ultimate prognosis of this war is, but if we take the long view, it's far more favorable to our interests than it is to our enemies.

The media’s 24-hour ragebait cycle can’t explain what’s actually unfolding in Iran. While critics swing wildly between calling Trump a “warmonger” and “weak,” the reality points to a regime that’s been militarily and strategically crippled.

Meanwhile, adversaries like Russia and China are feeling the ripple effects, and NATO’s cracks are on full display. The long view tells a very different story—and it’s one the headlines won’t admit, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

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