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Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal.

I think we're coming to the last chapter, the epilogue, the post-script of the Iran War.

It's been going on for over 60 days, but there are certain time conditions or limits to the war on both sides.

As I said earlier, the military question has been resolved.

The United States, by day 40, had effectively destroyed the ability of Iran to make war.

And it has since then enacted certain blockades and economic coercion, especially canceling bank accounts, freezing assets abroad, interrupting commercial tankers on their way in and out

of Iran on the high seas that will guarantee the Iranian economy will explode somewhere in the next two or three weeks or a month or so.

But each side has a time constraint.

On the side of Iran, it knows that the status quo is not acceptable. It's a death

warrant for them because they cannot continue their economic activity at the present rate.

It's just a question of how long can they smuggle things in on rail or through land

routes or across the casket, but it won't be enough. So their strategy is to often negotiate

and give a hint that they might give greater concessions. And then we, as a proverbial fish,

take the bait, they hook us, we get into four or five days, then we find out it's a ruse,

then we get mad and back off. Donald Trump, and the point of that is, of course, is to drag

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