What Exactly Was Iran Thinking—Or Not?

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

What is the future of this latest episode of the Iran-Israel air war? For now, Trump will keep

raising the specter of negotiations, and Israel will keep hammering Iran. Trump will expect that, at some point, either the cornered regime will return to drag out negotiations, lie and cajole to save their battered regime and dwindling resources, or see their oil and defense infrastructure eventually wiped out—and the possibility the regime disappears as well. We might then expect the current hot war to turn into an intermittent one.