Foreign Policy

Is There a Trump Great Game?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Critics of Trump’s second-term foreign policy—the usual Left and some on the neo-isolationist Right—claim it is recklessly herky jerky and guided by no consistent grand strategy. Yet, in both the first Trump administration’s National Security Strategy paper and its second-term update, he clearly disdained ground wars abroad, nation-building, and isolationism. […]

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Glib Barista AOC’s Ignorance Front and Center at Munich Security Conference

The “Glib Barista” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s, D-N.Y., ignorance of world affairs was one full display for the world to see at the Munich Security Conference last week. But why did she even go in the first place? Elections, says Victor Davis Hanson. VDH and Jack Fowler also discuss California’s ongoing billionaire exodus, which, by some

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VDH UltraGlib Barista AOC’s Ignorance Front and Center at Munich Security Conference

The “Glib Barista” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s, D-N.Y., ignorance of world affairs was one full display for the world to see at the Munich Security Conference last week. But why did she even go in the first place? Elections, says Victor Davis Hanson. VDH and Jack Fowler also discuss California’s ongoing billionaire exodus, which, by some

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‘Demonstrably Untrue’: VDH Rebuts Tucker Carlson’s Israel, Qatar Claims

Tucker Carlson favored putting America’s strategic relationship with the Gulf states, most namely Qatar, ahead of Israel, arguing that the Jewish state was a “completely insignificant country” with “no resources,” during the Doha Forum earlier this month. VDH responds to Carlson’s claims that Israel offers little strategic value to the United States, laying out Israel’s

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VDH Ultra‘Demonstrably Untrue’: VDH Rebuts Tucker Carlson’s Israel, Qatar Claims

Tucker Carlson favored putting America’s strategic relationship with the Gulf states, most namely Qatar, ahead of Israel, arguing that the Jewish state was a “completely insignificant country” with “no resources,” during the Doha Forum earlier this month. VDH responds to Carlson’s claims that Israel offers little strategic value to the United States, laying out Israel’s

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Trump Calls Out Europe in New National Security Strategy

Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler dive into how President Donald Trump’s newly revealed national security strategy statement takes Europe to task. They also ask the question, “Will Western Civilization in Europe be around in 100 years?” Share This

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Venezuela Is No Panama, and Trump Knows This

While many, Left and Right, believe the Trump administration’s decision to park the USS Gerald R. Ford off the coast of Venezuela is a precursor for war, Victor Davis Hanson argues that President Donald Trump’s America First base and recent U.S. history in the region may shine the light on an entirely different outcome. Share

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The Lost Boys

VDH and Jack  discuss the US-Israeli relations, political violence in America, the troubling state of young American males, the increasing popularity of socialism, and more. Share This

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The Pieces of Trump’s Peace

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness What did Donald Trump do differently to obtain at least temporary calm in the Middle East compared to the failed efforts of past administrations, foreign powers, and the United Nations? Let us count ten different approaches. Trump curtailed a considerable amount of Iranian oil income and its dispersal. He stopped,

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From the League of Nations to the United Nations to Trump Global?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Historians traditionally blame the failure of the League of Nations—the post-World War I, Versailles-era dream of President Woodrow Wilson—on many things. Its membership was small (58 nations). The League’s utopian rhetoric lacked commensurate force. The postwar ascendant United States refused to join. The winners of World War I, like France

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