Bulwark policy editor Mona Charen obviously wasn’t impressed with President Donald Trump’s address to the nation on Iran on Wednesday night. She reposted a piece by colleague Jonathan V. Last declaring plainly that the war is over and America lost.
This is not “defeatism,” it’s defeat. America Lost. Iran Won. Trump Shat the Bed. https://t.co/plaKQH2ntc
— Mona Charen (@monacharen) April 2, 2026
Last writes:
It is true, as the president said last night, that the Iranian navy and air force have been almost eliminated.
It is also beside the point. The Islamic Republic has never been—and never wanted to be—a naval power. They have never made extensive use of air power. Those two branches have nothing to do with the regime’s strategic goals. Trump bragging about winning the sea and air wars in Iran is like Norway taunting America over beating us in the Olympic biathlon: America does not care about the biathlon; we’re a hockey country.
The Iranian leadership cares about two things: preserving its theocratic regime and possessing strategic weapons.
When this war ends in “two or three weeks” the Iranian regime will be more securely in power than it was before the war and it will have demonstrated the power of a strategic weapon.
America will have lost. Iran will have won. Let’s examine the scope of our defeat and their victory.
Let’s not and say we did. We’re not paying for a subscription to The Bulwark.
We can always count on the Bulwark to shamelessly publish the stupidest shit imaginable. 🤡
— Duke of Toxic Masculinity 🇺🇸 (@LeviathanLeap) April 2, 2026
Is it over?
It’s not over.
Who said it’s over?
— Smoke yer Joyful Cheap Fake (@Jlisa42067) April 2, 2026
I’m sorry you didn’t save enough for retirement but prostitution like this at your age is very sad. There are other ways to make a dollar.
— Magills (@magills_) April 2, 2026
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What’s it like for both sides to think you’re an insufferable moron? I’m genuinely curious.
— Jim McCaslin (@JimMcCaslin23) April 2, 2026
I wish somebody would pay me to say stupid shit. Although I’d hope I would have the class not to profit trying to harm my own country..
— Satanás (@smejk70030) April 2, 2026
You are more deranged and blindly delusional than the worst of the MAGA that you hate. It’s pathetic what you’ve let Trump turn you into.
— Everybody is Insane (@colorblindk1d) April 2, 2026
Bagdad Bob 🤝 Tehran Mona
— Andrew (@andrewfibonacci) April 2, 2026
Iran winning so hard they are recruiting 12 year-olds to suppress dissent.
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