Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal.

We are now entering the 50th, the 52nd day, somewhere in that period of the ongoing war with Iran. We're in the middle of negotiations.

We have a blockade on Iranian shipping going in and out, Iranian bound shipping going in or out of Iran,

as well as the Iranians are claiming that they too are trying to stop shipping that is pro-Western or related to the United States.

We don't really know who we are dealing with. We don't know whether the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or the Army or the elected, what's left of the elected government, or the

theocrats themselves, they're all vying for power, they're all arguing with each other.

So it's a very complicated situation in Iran, even though they're a prostrate.

They don't have any military or economic capability left, and yet they remain defiant.

Now, why do they remain defiant when the next cycle of this war could knock out their bridges,

their electrical power, and destroy what's left of their military?

And we could do it very easily.

They believe that Donald Trump is on a tightrope,

that he has certain constraints, prohibitions,

that are self-imposed upon him through political calculus.

Are there outside criteria that will force him to stop his neutering of Iran and will allow them at some point to rearm. What are those?

Well, first of all, they are watching the midterm elections very carefully, and they're looking at

the polls, and they feel that the Democratic Party is a great ally, the leftist, especially in it,

the hard left. They look at Tim Walts, the former

failed presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. He was in Spain this week at an

international socialist conference. Spain, remember, is very anti-American, has refused American

use of its NATO base and airspace. And what did he say? He said that our war effort.

Now, he's talking about our soldiers at war against Iran during periods of intense combat.

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