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

3 Comments / May 11, 2022

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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VDH UltraA Brief Anatomy of Ukraine. Part Four

6 Comments / May 10, 2022

Victor Davis Hanson What’s Next? For the all the fog of war, the back-and-forth Biden/Putin boasting and name-calling, and the Russian goblin-talk of using nukes, we are beginning to see the outlines of a cease-fire. Before the invasion, Ukraine had mostly lost its Russian-majority borderlands and much of Crimea to Putin. After the invasion, Russia

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VDH UltraA Brief Anatomy of Ukraine. Part Three

9 Comments / May 6, 2022

Victor Davis Hanson Why and how did Putin Miscalculate? So when Putin entered central Ukraine on February 24, 2022, he had assumed that the United States would only mildly protest. In a sense, he was right. Biden quickly withdrew American embassy personnel. He made it known to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the U.S. could

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VDH UltraA Brief Anatomy of Ukraine. Part Two

6 Comments / May 4, 2022

Victor Davis Hanson Why Did Putin Invade Now? (Continued) We have seen why Putin did not trust Trump to be silent if he invaded Ukraine. Here are ten reasons why Biden assured him of a flabby response to an envisioned invasion. Biden appeared doddering, non compos mentis, and mentally enfeebled. His diminished state suggested (to

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VDH UltraA Brief Anatomy of Ukraine. Part One

1 Comment / May 3, 2022

Victor Davis Hanson Why Did Putin Invade Now? Wars usually start with the loss of deterrence. So legitimate questions are raised why Putin chose to invade Ukraine in February 2022, and not say during 2017, 2018, 2019, or 2020? After all, these were all periods when Donald Trump was under attack by a special prosecutor,

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VDH UltraAngry Reader 04-29-22

29 Comments / April 29, 2022

Victor Davis HansonFrom An Angry Reader: MLK-liberal Victor Davis Hanson admits once again that he facilitated the second-class citizen treatment of his white classics students while helping minorities leap over them. In earlier podcasts he has complained that the Hispanics he helped then turned on him, adopting Spanish surnames and Woke values, as well as

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VDH UltraAngry Reader 04-27-22

25 Comments / April 27, 2022

From An Angry Reader: Prof. Hanson, Your idiotic take on the left’s nihilism left me incredibly surprised. A completely new low, even for you. How about you do one on the right’s nihilism? According to you right wing nut jobs: scientists telling us the planet is becoming inhospitable don’t know anything, investing in infrastructure is

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VDH UltraRemembering the Old Breed. Part Three

16 Comments / April 22, 2022

Victor Davis Hanson A Child’s Garden of Animals My paternal grandfather Frank Hanson was drafted in 1917—although he was married and a bit old at 28. And as part of the war effort he had a small six to eight cow dairy I was told. No matter, he was one of the first to drafted

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VDH UltraRemembering the Old Breed. Part Two

16 Comments / April 20, 2022

Victor Davis Hanson A Child’s Garden of Animals I once talked to the Land Bank officer, a smart though cranky accountant near retirement. He called our farming operation “non-rational,” after he viewed the layout of my grandfather’s 120 acres. My Punjabi neighbor (who begrudgingly admitted that, as one of the first Sikhs to arrive in

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VDH UltraRemembering the Old Breed. Part One

16 Comments / April 19, 2022

Victor Davis Hanson A Child’s Garden of Animals I used to think America was divided into two halves: the majority who have never spoken or known those born in the 19th century, and the minority who have. The latter were given a great gift that is imprinted upon them since youth, a glimpse into wisdom

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