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Victor Davis Hanson: What Is Actually Happening in Iran

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos.Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.  

What’s going on with Iran, or rather, what’s next with Iran? We’ve gone through six or seven iterations of we’re at war, we’re negotiating, we’re at war, we’re negotiating, we’re at war. So, about 75% of the so-called war that began on Feb. 28 of this year has been negotiations. 

About 25% has actually been kinetic action. And I think that’s obscured a little bit what we’re doing in Iran. We’re not passive when we’re negotiating. What [President Donald] Trump is doing right now, the Trump administration, is very similar to what the North did as it started the Civil War. They were not sure how to deal with the South because they’d have to invade it, and it was the size of Europe. 

So, Winfield Scott came up with the idea of an Anaconda Plan, named after the snake, a python-like snake of Latin America, that would squeeze the South.  

In other words, they would occupy the Mississippi River and cut off their western approaches to trade and commerce. The battlefront in the North would cut them off from the industrial cities of the North, and then they would blockade Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, Alabama, and New Orleans, and they would not be able to export cotton nor import manufactured goods, especially weaponry. 

Now, it was very slow because, in those days, there was not an international banking system that you could freeze accounts or you could isolate a whole area or region economically, or, I should say, financially.  

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