2022

The Cycles of Revolutions in Our Midst

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness We are witnessing a number of radical military, social, and political revolutions that are changing the United States—and the world—in fundamental ways that we still have not appreciated. The taboo about never mentioning the first-strike use of nuclear weapons in a major conventional war is now apparently over. Vladimir Putin

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VDH UltraPutin, Wounded but Deadlier. Part Two: The Old Rules of Nuclear Powers (Continued)

Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner 3) Is it really so wise that Ukraine, with the help of U.S. and NATO intelligence, is beginning to conduct operations inside Russia to destroy oil and natural gas depots among other targets? In a logical world, of course, it is. Aggressors deserve their just desserts. But a war of

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Imagine the Unimaginable

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Americans are now entering uncharted, revolutionary territory. They may witness things over the next five months that once would have seemed unimaginable. Until the Ukrainian conflict, we had never witnessed a major land war inside Europe directly involving a nuclear power. In desperation, Russia’s impaired and unhinged leader Vladimir Putin

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VDH UltraPutin, Wounded but Deadlier. Part One: The Old Rules of Nuclear Powers

Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner On the battlefields of Ukraine, the Ukrainians are getting stronger and the Russians weaker, despite their great disparities in population, GDP, and financial clout. That is both a good and an increasingly more dangerous thing. Russia is exhausting its munitions supplies faster than they can be resupplied. Ukraine is drawing

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