Victor Davis Hanson Given the administration has provided clear aims, given the war is going well, and given the world is watching in quiet glee that the odious theocracy is dissembling, why the furious hysteria here at home? Watch as communists are protesting the war with calcified hammer-and-sickle banners as if they have no clue […]
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The prognosis of the Iran War is now so couched in politics and so warped by the American Left that the public has grown tired and wants it all to go away. But in truth, the situation is so fluid that any accurate prediction is impossible. Yet there is good
If you take anything away from Rep. Eric Swalwell’s resignation, it should be the following: Whether a democratic politician actually abused, sexually harassed, sexually assaulted someone is not of importance to the Democratic hierarchy. What’s important is the status of that person’s political viability. Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler discuss Swalwell dropping out of
The reaction to President Trump’s Iran strategy has reached peak absurdity—critics can’t decide if he’s too aggressive or not aggressive enough. While the media spins, the reality on the ground tells a very different story about leverage, restraint, and results. What actually happened—and why it matters heading into the midterms—cuts straight through the noise. Share
Debate over Trump’s rhetoric on Iran has sparked fresh accusations of “war crimes” from critics. But a look at history—from World War II through Iraq and Libya—shows U.S. presidents in both parties have long targeted dual-use infrastructure in wartime. The real question isn’t just language, but how modern narratives square with longstanding military precedent. It’s
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The Left and some on the Right went crazy over a recent Trump tweet. He warned that if the Iranian regime did not cease blocking the international Strait of Hormuz, he would hit its dual military-civilian infrastructure. He promised that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought
Victor Davis Hanson and host Jack Fowler discuss President Trump’s profane Easter warning to Iran and frame it as a “Nixon madman” bad-cop/good-cop strategy involving JD Vance, while contrasting Trump’s decisive military rescue efforts with past administrations’ failures. They examine the California high-speed rail project as a costly “train to nowhere,” citing billions spent without
Victor Davis Hanson The Political Side. But military success sometimes does not ensure strategic victory, given the Clausewitzian reminder that “war is an extension/continuation of politics by other means.” America never lost a battle in Vietnam and inflicted enormous damage on the North Vietnamese, but lost the war politically. Ditto the American and Soviet experience
Victor Davis Hanson Regime Change? On March 1 and again later in the month, Trump and Rubio restated the above reasons for the bombing. Regime change was not among the stated objectives—although wiping out the top echelon of the theocratic and military apparat is a sort of regime change in and of itself. True, Trump