The big losers in this war, apart from some former Iranian leaders, appear to be China, and NATO.

In the last two months China has lost easy cheap access to cheap oil from Venezuela and now Iran. China was getting around the sanctions and buying discounted Iranian oil through a shadow fleet of ships. It was acquiring as much as 80% of Iranian oil production. Now it has to pay market prices and fight for a limited supply.

Meanwhile the divide between the US and Europe is suddenly very obvious. NATO has been shown to be an empty shell.

Victor Davis Hanson, the military historian, explains the big picture:

GB News: Basically, is this a victory for Donald Trump? Does Does this ceasefire represent a victory for his sort of strategic campaign?

Victor Davis Hanson: Well, if it's honored, it is because when all of the rhetoric and all of the politics vanish, and if they abide by the agreement and we stop and the straits stay open and …  if we're viligant — then it is.

He [Trump] comes back and he says when I came into office Iran had the ability to make 11 bombs apparently … we've realized they had missiles that would reach Europe. They had shut down, through the proxies, the Red Sea. They had caused October 7th — and they can't do that anymore at least for the foreseeable future. If they think they're going going to try, I or any future president can stop them at very minimal cost. This has cost about 50 to 60 billion dollars.

It's about probably a quarter of what was stolen in California under the Newsome regime by welfare fraud. And we've lost tragically 13 soldiers. We lost the same amount in one day in Afghanistan getting out of Afghanistan. So if everybody just keeps calm and looks at the actual data, the cost, the benefit, uh, and who wins and loses, … I think in two months nobody's going to be talking about this if it holds.

We're in an information war. I recommend people watch this to understand just how deep and complete the wall of anti-Trump propaganda is.