"This Is How the Iran War Ends” - Victor Davis Hanson (Video)

In this 7 June 2026 published video, host Jillian Michaels sits down with military historian and geopolitical strategist Victor Davis Hanson for an unfiltered breakdown of the crisis. The US-Iran-Israel war is reshaping the Middle East in real time — and most people have no idea what’s actually happening. 

Iran is threatening the Strait of Hormuz. Oil prices are spiking. Hezbollah is escalating. And Donald Trump is under fire from Congress, the media, and fractures inside his own coalition. The window to prevent a wider regional war is closing fast.

Is Iran capable of backing down — or is regime collapse inevitable? Has Trump strengthened or undermined American deterrence? And are we watching the beginning of World War 3 — or the final chapter of the Iranian regime?

Military historian Victor Davis Hanson outlines a definitive roadmap for concluding the ongoing conflict with the Iranian regime. Hanson argues that the United States and Israel have effectively “broken the back” of Iran’s military infrastructure, bringing the conflict into its final chapter

Hanson builds his assessment on the premise that the military phase of the war has already been decisively won by the U.S. and Israel. He asserts that beneath Iran’s aggressive exterior, the theocratic regime was hollow and decayed. Extensive airstrikes have eliminated its core war-making capacity. 

Hanson predicts that the conflict will culminate in a compressed, intense period of action dictated by specific economic and political constraints. The final catalyst will be a decisive U.S. push to permanently clear and open the Strait of Hormuz. If Iran retaliates with remaining missile assets, the U.S. will execute a rapid, intensive air campaign lasting roughly one to two weeks. These final operations will target dual-use bridges, subterranean weapons arsenals, power plants, and the remnants of the naval forces. It will also target top-tier regime officials who still believe they are in command. Once the assets are neutralized and the Strait is secured under a guardian force, the U.S. will declare victory, withdraw the bulk of its forces, and pivot domestic attention back to the economy ahead of the midterms. 

According to Hanson, the goal is not long-term occupation but the total strategic and economic castration of the theocracy. The physical destruction of military-industrial factories and total asset freezes will leave the regime unable to provide basic food, fuel, or electricity to its population. Hanson expects this profound humiliation to trigger a populist, domestic uprising that will inevitably dismantle the ayatollahs’ rule. Stripping Iran of its financial assets effectively terminates the funding pipeline to its regional terrorist proxies, fundamentally resetting Middle Eastern stability. Because of Iran’s aggression, global oil exporters are rapidly shifting toward alternative pipelines through Saudi Arabia and Jordan. This leaves the Strait of Hormuz—and Iran’s leverage over it—largely irrelevant in global trade. 

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