7. This part of the world is not unlike the convoluted history of the former Yugoslavia. Crimea itself had been part of the Ottoman Empire but was annexed to Russia in 1783 by Catherine the Great. It remained Soviet until the USSR’s breakup in 1991 (Note that the Russians lost over 500,000 casualties vainly trying to save Crimea from the Nazis in […]
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4. Putin crossed national boundaries (Georgia/Ossetia; Donbas; Crimea; the Kyiv area) in three of the last four American administrations (Bush, Obama, Biden), but not during the Trump administration. Most likely, Putin could not predict what Trump might do in response and so he was deterred. Thus, keep in mind that the leftwing claim that it is on the van of pro-Ukrainian support is contradicted by
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From an Angry Reader: Dr. Hanson: I have been such a big fan of yours for years. But I am so, so disappointed you suggested Ukraine should give up land and whatever else to “negotiate” an end to the war with Russia; essentially pay Russia for the horror it has brought to Ukraine. Russia deliberately
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From an Angry Reader: Norman Schwarzkopf: “I never want to be in a fair fight” … nothing wrong with preponderance of power — Proportional response is stupid and harmful. BUT do not call the Gaza incursion as revenge … it is not. it is to teach that the cost of waging violence against Israel will not be worth the expense. J Morgenstern Ann Arbor,
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Shut the f**k up, imagine having the audacity to talk about “hiring by skin color” because a ship hit a bridge. did you have a single shred of evidence to even remotely make that connection? listen, vic; trump snatched the klan hoods off the republican party. MAGA = open white racism. instead of whining about DEI, just say what you really mean. Andrew Cogger Dear Angry Reader Andrew
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From an Angry Reader: Dear Dr. Hanson, I have enjoyed several years of your podcast and your teaching of the Greek language and how history of the past affects present day history. I find it troubling though with all your educational training that you use one of the foulest words fairly regularly that the F-
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Victor Davis Hanson As one resident told me, when I asked what was going on in his compounds, “It’s like our home in Oaxaca, only better.” Once, the former Fox Nation reporter Lara Logan brought a film crew out here to film the illegal alien environs. She told me that she had found the entire environment quite
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Victor Davis Hanson What explains the general breakdown in civilization and the law, in a region where once no one had a key to their front farmhouse door and children free-ranged at age six or seven among their fields and orchards? One reason, of course, is the open border. Millions have illegally entered the U.S.,
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Victor Davis Hanson 8. The Garbage Baggers. Sometimes the encounters are surreal to the point of being comedic, yet always instructional about the oddities of rural existence. And after all, one must retain a sense of humor amidst the 21st-century’s absurdities, and sometimes things just don’t add up. Last year I walked along the alleyway and
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Victor Davis Hanson 6. The fornicators. I’ll be brief. Recently, I have stumbled upon a growing number of fornicators, if I may use such a term of disparagement—in cars, on blankets on the ground, on mattresses even. As the town grows closer, so the farm seems ideal for trysts. I am no Puritan, but I resent
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