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We stopped full-scale fighting almost 100 days ago, and these tit-for-tatts have been ineffectual in the sense they have not stopped the missile barrages to the Gulf states,

and they have not given us control over the strait of our moves,

and we do not have control of the enriched uranium.

So where are we now?

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

We're approaching 140 days since we first attacked Iran on February 28th of this year. And we only really had, people call this a war, but it's

basically 40 days of actual bombing, tit for tat, followed by 100 days of negotiations interspice

with some tit for tat exchange of missiles and drones.

But for the most part, we have negotiated.

Now, we know the strategy of both sides.

The strategy of our president was he wanted to stay in power,

meaning he wanted to have control of the Congress.

Otherwise, his initiatives and agenda will be ossified if the Democrats take over the House.

They will impeach him if they take over the House.

And he's protected against conviction by running the Senate.

But if he should lose the House or Senate, in other words, if things would blow up,

he would be in deep trouble. So his point was always to make sure that Iran did not have the

ability to produce a nuclear weapon and did not have the ability to launch missiles all over

the Gulf and did not have the ability to close the straits of Hormuz.

But the negotiations interrupted that cycle in which Iran also had a strategy, and their

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