A moral inversion is taking hold across parts of the West, most visibly among segments of America’s elitists. Reality is no longer debated; it is reframed in support of a political agenda. In this framework, Iran and its proxies: Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis, are recast as aggrieved actors, while Israel is cast as the aggressor. Violence is excused, if not justified. Self-defense is treated with suspicion. Facts are not argued over; they are selected, bent, and arranged to fit a predetermined conclusion.

Nowhere is this clearer than in the redefinition of “victory.”

The United States and Israel have systematically degraded Iran’s military capacity, its air and naval forces weakened, its missile and drone infrastructure damaged, its air defenses compromised, its leadership targeted. By any conventional standard, this is the very definition of defeat. Not partial. Not debatable. Indisputable defeat.

Yet we are told Iran has “prevailed” because it can still disrupt shipping........

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