Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Iran Outcome Dream

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🗓️ 3 March 2026

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Less than one week since the initiation of Operation Epic Fury, and nearly everyone is wondering: What will be the domestic reaction to America’s war in Iran? With this being the second time the U.S. has gone into Iran, something needs to change so a third time never happens. “It would behoove Donald Trump to find a magical solution” and remove Iran’s “theocratic government,” replacing it with “a benevolent government,” explains Victor Davis Hanson on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.” “ If we get stuck in a quagmire where we have to have ground troops and we get into the hundreds of American dead, it'll be a disaster for the Republican Party in the midterms.” 👉 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👉More exclusive content is available on Victor’s website: https://victorhanson.com 00:00 War Day Four Update 01:08 Ideal Endgame for Iran 02:47 Iran’s Limits and U.S. Leverage 05:54 Global Reactions and Great Powers 09:07 U.S. Politics and Who Governs Next Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We're coming upon the fourth day of war in the Middle East since the United States attacked along with Israel, theocratic government in Iran.
0:08.5	What is the status of the conflict as I speak?
0:11.0	They are up against over probably about a thousand jets of various countries, mostly Israeli in the United States.
0:17.6	And they are expending a lot of their ordinance attacking almost every Arab
0:22.5	country in their vicinity as well as Cyprus and Israel and attacking the United States Navy.
0:27.9	They have a finite supply of missiles, drones, and airplanes. You can't get into Iran. You can't
0:33.5	fly into Iran to give them more arms. Each day, as I said, their stock of weapons and stock of
0:40.3	leaders is diminishing and there's no way to resupply it. I think there's a good chance that we can still see a vastly weakened Iran within a month, a triumphant United States.
0:50.3	And the $64,000 question will be be who will be in charge of Iran?
1:02.9	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.
1:07.9	We're coming upon the fourth day of war in the Middle East since the
1:13.6	United States attacked along with Israel, the theocratic government in Iran. What is the status
1:19.7	of the conflict as I speak and what will be some possible outcomes? What would be ideal in the Trump administration's view? I think you all know
1:30.9	that. It would be something along the following lines. A couple more days of targeted strikes on the
1:37.4	Iranian Theocratic leadership, its Revolutionary Guard, would encourage the people who went out a million strong just a few weeks
1:48.3	ago and were slaughtered.
1:49.5	This time, they would not fear a diminished government, and they would take control, storm
1:56.6	the political residences, the political meeting places, the political key points of the Iranian
2:05.6	government, mass outside them, and you would see some kind of plane come in from the United
2:10.7	States with the Shah's son, or maybe the interim government from Paris would fly in in and you would have a coalition government.
2:21.0	And then everybody would rejoice. The United States would be popular and there would be a
2:26.8	normalization in the Middle East. And then, of course, there would be retribution for the
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