Share to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribe06:11 AM • May 26 2026 IDTThe preoccupation with totting up the expected Israeli and American losses from what has been termed the "agreement" with Iran, though there is no agreement yet and even the memorandum of understanding is suffering severe labor pangs, falls into a logical trap that could be called the "total victory test." That's because if the war's goals were always unfeasible – whether it was the aspiration to topple the regime, severing Iran from its proxies or ending the nuclear threat through bombing – then no victory is possible.In the NewsGulf States Can't Rely on Trump's U.S. and May Be Forced Into Alliance With IranAfter U.S. Strikes, Rubio Says Hormuz Has to Be Open 'One Way or the Other''Barren and Desolate': Mark Twain Wasn't the Only American Miffed by PalestineIsraeli Security Forces Secretly Helped to Smuggle Unsupervised Goods Into GazaNetanyahu Injected Deadly Poison Into Israel's BodyRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIBen-Gvir Posts Video of Police Dragging Detained Gaza Flotilla ActivistsFreed Gaza Flotilla Activists Report Sexual Abuse, Rape in Israeli CustodyThe Most Consequential Republican Primary for Israel Is Happening in Kentucky'It Was Okay to Be Crazy': IDF Soldiers Discuss Moral Decay in LebanonOn Israel, Gaza and Palestine, Bigmouth Tucker Carlson Spoke Nothing but TruthWorld Leaders Summon Israeli Envoys Over Ben-Gvir Gaza Flotilla Activists Video