Who won the Iran War and Trump versus mega influencers will discuss'll discuss all this and more on this edition of the editors.

I'm Rich Lowry and I'm joined as always early some of the time by Andrew, Andrew Studderford, our old friend Dan Foster and the notorious MbD.

Michael Brendan Doherty.

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So MBD, we've learned once again that if Donald Trump

is talking about the apocalypse, it means he's either thinking about causing the apocalypse

or looking for the fastest possible off-ramp out of a conflict that he can get.

So he threatens to destroy Iranian civilization and we get this ceasefire deal.

And by the way, I should apologize to our listeners because we offered a couple episodes ago

are over under date for when the conflict would end. And I said April 6, and it turned out to be April 7th. So I know our listeners expect more accuracy from my predictions. They expect perfection, not just incredible prescience. But we'll see whether this ceasefire actually holds. But I think people are having trouble and there's a lot of debate by very

reasonable and sensible people about what this actually means, because on the one hand, you

have this incredible military setback for Iran. I mean, its military has basically been destroyed

or significantly degraded, as they say, its economy has taken major hammer blows,

so it's already in a shambles.

It's going to take a very long time for it to reconstitute or get anywhere near the way it was,

if it ever can.

At the same time, it has this major strategic advantage now that it took in the course of the war, which is de facto control

of the Strait of Hormuz. They're supposed to open it up. They haven't opened it up yet, or they've

opened it up very much on their terms. They are deciding who goes through and who doesn't. They're

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