Victor Davis Hanson: Iran War Ends in One of Three Ways

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🗓️ 7 April 2026

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President Donald Trump recently outlined the endgame for Iran. How does it end? There are three scenarios: 👉 Bomb the mullahs back to the Stone Age, hoping a popular uprising takes root and overthrows the regime. 👉 The Venezuela solution: Install a current, more moderate member of the regime as a transitional figure until elections can be held. 👉 Bomb the infrastructure and leave.Donald Trump recently outlined the end game for Iran. We’ve been there about a month, and he was saying in week five it would take two or three weeks, so maybe seven weeks total or two months. That got people very angry and said it’s an endless war. And the people on the left, remember, don’t want the war to work because they want to win the midterms. And they’re not, they haven’t been successful so far in hurting Trump, but they feel that if they can create a narrative that this is an Afghanistan-like withdrawal, which they oversaw that was a disaster, or a Vietnam or an Afghanistan or Iraq, maybe they can bring him down. (00:00) Trump’s Iran Endgame (00:58) Endless War Narrative (02:21) Casualties vs. Costs (04:03) Size, Scale, and Military Impact (06:12) Denuclearization and Strategic Results (08:10) Closing Takeaways 👉 The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: http://dailysignal.com/donate 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest short videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1⁠ Also on Spotify: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL9753340027 👉Want more VDH? Watch Victor’s weekly, hour-long podcast, “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” now! Subscribe to his YouTube channel, and enable notifications: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	Donald Trump recently outlined the end game for Iran.
0:33.6	How does it end? There's three scenarios.
0:36.6	There's Trump's hinting that he was going to, in Curtis
0:40.8	LeMay fashion, bomb them back to the Stone Age. Or he can do the Venezuela. Somebody you can talk to
0:46.8	that would take over as a transitional government and then they would probably have to accede to
0:51.9	the demands of the people. Finally, you don't even have to talk to anyone.
0:56.0	When we're not going to worry, we're not going to argue,
0:59.0	we're just going to take out your infrastructure and we're going to leave.
1:03.0	Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal. Donald Trump recently outlined
1:18.0	the end game for Iran. We've been there about a month, and he was saying in week five,
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