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Victor Davis Hanson China, in dire need of oil, and Russia, awash in oil that it cannot so easily sell, have some but not all similar agendas on the Iran War. They share an overriding directive: whatever is good for the U.S. is bad for them. So, they support Iran in the war, but both

Victor Davis Hanson Many once hard-core podcasters/internet influencers/politicos and MAGA loyalists have broken with Trump, ostensibly because they have termed the 60-day air campaign over Iran (13 fatalities) a “forever” or “endless” war. A core of influential MAGA apostates (for example, Steven Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Megan Kelly, Candace Owens, Joe Rogan, etc.)

Victor Davis Hanson Item: Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) on that propaganda news that some Iranian ships claim that they broke through the American blockade, a move intended to bankrupt the terrorist regime, the senator in response posted on social media, “Awesome.” Item: Tom Friedman, New York Times columnist, remarked in an interview that while he

Victor Davis Hanson The Gulf The Gulf nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) have two agendas—one stealthy and unknown to the public, and one transparent and well-recognized. That is, given their huge treasuries, their gigantic oil reserves, their vulnerable pipelines and refineries, their small

Victor Davis Hanson Iran The Iran War has (for now) transmogrified from one of military action—Iran has essentially been disarmed for the foreseeable future—to a political/geostrategic standoff. Why does Iran believe it can obtain a deal, given the U.S. devastation of the Iranian military? It knows the U.S. has no intention of invading the country,

Victor Davis Hanson Serling (who easily out-smoked my dad’s two-pack-a-day habit) was serious and answered in terse, short answers. He soon grew quiet but remained gracious and witty. He kept talking to us about politics in the car on the way over to the Reedley lecture, which my dad thought would be a blockbuster—given the