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Iran Crushed, Markets Soar: Why Trump’s Critics Can’t Make Up Their Minds on the Peace Deal
The Daily Signal and Victor Davis Hanson ^ | June 24 2026 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 06/24/2026 4:29:16 AM PDT by texas booster

People have also mischaracterized the deal itself. This is not the end of the negotiations or the war. This is the very beginning of the problems for Iran. Once the kinetic part of the war stops, they have to face the people, and the people are angry, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Iran; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: vdh; victordavishanson
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1 posted on 06/24/2026 4:29:16 AM PDT by texas booster
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To: 5th MEB; 6ppc; agondonter; Alberta's Child; AndyJackson; Aria; artichokegrower; ...
Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

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2 posted on 06/24/2026 4:30:36 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

Has VDH been reading comments on FR?


3 posted on 06/24/2026 4:31:58 AM PDT by Merrick
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To: texas booster

I hope we have found ways to arm and train the Iranian resistance. That is the only way to change the Iranian government without getting involved in a long ground war.


4 posted on 06/24/2026 4:55:14 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: texas booster
How do we know the Iranian people are angry?
5 posted on 06/24/2026 5:12:35 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: texas booster

What are the chances that this “peace deal” turns into a war deal?


6 posted on 06/24/2026 5:12:53 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: ComputerGuy
How do we know the Iranian people are angry?

They're starving?

7 posted on 06/24/2026 5:29:18 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: MtnClimber
There really is no "Iranian resistance" worthy of being called one. Yes, of course there are people who oppose the government, as there are in every country on earth, but a few thousand people in a country of tens of millions doesn't constitute a true meaningful resistance, I'm sorry.

This is the idea that mostly led to the war happening in the first place, someone convinced Trump that it once we pounded the hell out of them this so-called "resistance" would overthrow their regime and it would all be a big cakewalk.

It's time we all stop deluding ourselves with this sort of nonsense, it's never ever going to happen.

8 posted on 06/24/2026 5:39:59 AM PDT by jpl ("You are fake news.")
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To: jpl

Can’t make up their minds. Cruz too?


9 posted on 06/24/2026 5:41:22 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: texas booster

This is like complaining about the curtains in the upstairs bathroom while you are digging the foundation.


10 posted on 06/24/2026 5:47:39 AM PDT by bray (Thank God for Israel)
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To: texas booster

I used to respect Victor Davis Hanson. These days, he’s delusional.


11 posted on 06/24/2026 5:51:03 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: jpl

Exactly right on, the IRGC and mob muzzie types are a 7th Century barbarian death cult, VDH’s outlook is something the MSM will never report but appears to be a little optimistic. The Iranian people are going to have a bloody civil war first and will continue for decades long after we’re dead.

These muzzie warmongers have been doing this for over a dozen centuries, they will not quit murdering as this is where their power comes from.

Whatever peace deal these inbreeds sign onto it won’t last until Muzziedom is wiped out, we’ll get hit by an asteroid first.


12 posted on 06/24/2026 6:03:15 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: sauropod

Bkmk


13 posted on 06/24/2026 6:06:38 AM PDT by sauropod
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To: texas booster

Do Hanson and Trump talk.?


14 posted on 06/24/2026 7:05:26 AM PDT by larryjohnson (FReepersonaltrainer)
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To: unixfox

Inflation is at 70%?
Their water supply aquifers are bone dry due to prolonged drought?


15 posted on 06/24/2026 7:10:18 AM PDT by pingman (Hi Ho Silver! AWAY!)
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To: texas booster

The problem is that the regime — and its nuclear danger — remains even though the markets are temporarily up. To keep from being nuked, we might have to fight another one of those “endless wars”.


16 posted on 06/24/2026 7:16:38 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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