WTH Extra! Defining Victory in Iran. Dany and Marc Discuss.
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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On this episode of WTH Extra! Dany and Marc discuss their recent pieces on the war in Iran and the media coverage that has followed. Marc writes for the Post, What is the definition of victory in Iran? There are three. Dany writes in the WTH Substack, No we're not losing to Iran, detailing the myths and tropes about the ongoing war and its operational success. What Western media and our supposed "allies" fail to, or refuse, to consider, is that Iran is a unique enemy and the regime's words must be taken seriously. To root for failure is an affront to our ongoing mission and the Iranian people. So WTH? We share our wisdom with more to come...
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.1 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. |
| 0:07.1 | Thanks for listening. Here's our show. |
| 0:08.7 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:10.5 | What's really going on? |
| 0:12.0 | We said, what the hell happened? |
| 0:13.5 | You don't have to know what the hell is on it. |
| 0:15.6 | They see what's going on. |
| 0:16.7 | I don't know what's going on. |
| 0:18.0 | What is going on? |
| 0:20.0 | We must find out what's going on. What is going on? We must find out what is going on. |
| 0:29.7 | Hi, I'm Daniel Pletka. |
| 0:31.5 | I'm Mark Tiesin. |
| 0:32.8 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:34.3 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:37.0 | Mark, what the hell? What the hell is going on is our guest fell through. |
| 0:43.0 | So we were supposed to bring you General Jack Keene today. One of our favorites. One of our |
| 0:48.1 | favorite recidivist guests and Eminens Grease when it comes to everything foreign policy. |
| 0:53.2 | And then he at the last second, |
| 0:54.3 | was called into a very important meeting with certain senior administration officials of some |
| 0:59.8 | sort. And so couldn't join us. So he's going to be with us next week. And so we decided that we're |
| 1:05.6 | going to go ahead anyway, because we don't want you to miss any what the hell. And we've got a lot to |
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