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Iran Is Losing This War, and the Global Balance of Power Is Shifting, by Victor Davis Hanson – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Victor Davis Hanson, Daily Signal Senior Contributor, April 30, 2026

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis HansonSubscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos.opens in a new tab

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal.

We’re approaching 60 days of the so-called Iran war, and we’re still getting these loud voices that Donald Trump has failed, that the war’s not going well.

It’s completely nonempirical. It’s antithetical to the evidence.

Here we are at 60 days, and Iran is losing about $500 million in input per day. It’s running out of storage space in a week or two for its daily output of oil, at which point they either have to stop pumping or they’re going to have—if they don’t stop pumping—their wells will collapse.

They either have to stop pumping, or they have to build, as fast as they can, storage facilities, which will be known to us and we can take out.

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