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Revisiting WWII and Israel’s Strategic Dilemma: Leaks, Allies, and the Path Forward

3 Comments / October 26, 2024

On this episode, join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc as they discuss the complex geopolitical landscape surrounding Israel’s current conflicts and the historical intricacies of World War II. Victor discusses the implications of leaked war plans by the Biden administration and the challenges Israel faces in its strategic decisions against Iran. The conversation […]

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How To Blow Up the Middle East War in Five Easy Steps

39 Comments / October 3, 2024

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness When Joe Biden became president, the Middle East was calm. Now it is in the midst of a multifront war. So quiet was the inheritance from the prior Trump administration that nearly three years later, on September 29, 2023—and just eight days before the October 7 Hamas massacre of Israelis—Biden’s

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Trump Wades and Weighs In

14 Comments / August 2, 2024

Join the Friday news roundup with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc: Trump interviewed at the National Association of Black Journalists, Judge Merchan’s daughter brings in the money, assassination investigation reveals much, Trump meets Netanyahu, and campaign rhetoric. Share This

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Are Iran’s Nine Lives Nearing an End?

33 Comments / April 18, 2024

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The theocracy of Iran has been the world’s arch-embassy attacker over the last half century. So it has zero credibility in crying foul over Israel’s April 1 attacks on its “consulate” in Damascus and the killing of Iran’s kingpin terrorists of the Revolutionary Guard Corps there. Remember, the world

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Do Leftists Now Believe Leftism Doesn’t Work?

39 Comments / February 12, 2024

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness It is hard to destroy a naturally beautiful city like San Francisco, with ideal weather and stunning infrastructure inherited from far better earlier generations. Yet San Francisco continues its much-publicized and self-inflicted doom loop. The productive classes still flee the increasingly crime-ridden city and its self-induced pathologies. The city is

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Dangers of the Deep State From the Inside Looking Out

20 Comments / January 20, 2024

This weekend Victor Davis Hanson interviews Kash Patel on what to do with Iran, Biden’s policy of appeasement and its fickle policy toward Israel. Share This

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The Biden Doctrine and the Middle East

7 Comments / October 19, 2023

In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the inflation optimism on the Left, anti-Israel diplomacy, our intelligence community, normalizing diplomacy in Iran, and who is really culpable for the Hamas-Israel war. Share This

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Does Iran Realize Its Own Growing Danger?

44 Comments / October 19, 2023

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Iran understandably believes it is riding quite high. It is flush with cash. It hints it almost has the bomb—and might use it soon. The Iranians are bragging about their new tyrannical allies like Russia and China. Iran boasts of now being the self-proclaimed leader of jihad on behalf of

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Our Post-Hamas Wreckage

40 Comments / October 16, 2023

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness As Hamas goes, so with it go many of the following related Western pretensions. The Passions of 9/11, Redux It has been 22 years since we saw crowds throughout the Middle East celebrating the murder of 3,000 civilians—and since newspapers had daily “idiot watch” notices of American intellectuals defending radical

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Reflections on Israel’s New Existential War

34 Comments / October 9, 2023

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness There have been plenty of terrorist attacks on Israel. A dozen or so conventional wars of various magnitude have been waged against the Jewish state. And more often there have been mixtures of both. Yet never have hundreds of gangs of black-clad murderers carefully planned to swarm Israel, with an

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