Join Victor Davis Hanson’s weekend episode with cohost Sami Winc: Putin’s hostages released, Olympic trans-boxer, Israel takes out terrorists, Kamala’s campaign, and Niccolo Machiavelli’s “The Prince” and other works. Share This
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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the Hezbollah rockets hit Israeli soccer stadium killing 12 youths, the opening of the Paris Olympics, Putin threatening nuclear weapons, and the Union Station riots, burning the American flag. Share This
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Lame-duck presidencies, especially in the last six months of their final term, in general can offer opportunities for America’s enemies to take advantage of a perceived vacuum as one government transitions to the next. But these normal changeover months are especially dangerous when a perceived weak or appeasing lame-duck president
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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler weigh the US interfering in Israeli politics against Netanyahu, the Wagner Group helping Hezbollah, Obama’s record in the Middle East, the “loan repayment” hoax, and Biden family toxicity. Share This
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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for this Friday news roundup: the Hamas spokesman says “again and again,” Mayorkas can’t answer questions about anti-Semites in his midst, a second front for Iran, Mike Johnson’s early days, and tracing the Biden’ laundered money. Share This
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Classical diplomacy warns leaders to be neither obsequious and appeasing abroad, nor gratuitously boastful and hard-headed. The usual advice is don’t-tread-on-me resoluteness, or what Teddy Roosevelt characterized as “speak softly and carry a big stick.” The alternatives – whether “speak loudly and carry a twig,” “speak softly and carry a
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Putin ends up existing to warn us in the West of what we are not. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Vladimir Putin has the world’s attention this week. The circumstances will remind everyone that reset with Russia is dead. Its working hypothesis — that it was the George W. Bush administration, not the
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by Victor Davis Hanson // NRO’s The Corner Everyone can agree that Obama’s handling of the crisis has been puerile, and that there now are only the proverbial bad and worse options—the result being not whether the U.S. loses credibility, but only how much and for how long. So what comes next? Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Syria is turning out to be a sort of Spanish Civil War of our age, with Hezbollah and Iran playing the role of fascist Italy and Germany, and the Islamic nations and jihadists that of Stalin’s Russia, as the moderates disappear and the messy conflict becomes a proxy
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