Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness To find an impossible peace between Ukraine and Russia we must understand the recent history of the war and the European and American roles in it. So, Americans should revisit some fundamental realities and questions from which to remember before going forward: Why Did Putin Invade Ukraine in 2022? Putin did start […]
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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler for thoughts on Vance in Europe, Macron in trouble, laxity for illegals denied to citizens, riots in Sweden, Left technocracy, Democratic rallies, Trump works on peace in Ukraine, Jamie Dimon’s diatribe, Hegseth’s revolution, and more evidence in DC military helicopter crash. Share This
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Consider these European and American binaries. On December 20, 2024, a terrorist, Taleb Al-Abdul Mohsen, rammed his SUV into a Christmas crowd in Magdeburg, Germany. He killed 6 pedestrians and injured 299 others. Eleven days later, on New Year’s Eve in New Orleans, Louisiana, Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar smashed his pickup
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Ordeal After the October 7 massacres, the obituaries of the long political career of Benjamin Netanyahu, published both in Israel and in the West, became orthodox. He was considered as politically inert as Donald Trump once was after January 6, 2021. The conventional wisdom speculated not if, but only when
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Somehow the United States ended up this summer with no engaged president and an absent vice president who avoids the missing president and is frantically repudiating everything she co-owned the last three years. The world was already confused over how President Joe Biden was apparently declared by unnamed Democratic insiders
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness There are three current hot or cold wars: on the Ukrainian border, in the regions surrounding Israel, and in the strategic space between Taiwan and mainland China. All three conflicts could not only expand within their respective theaters but also escalate to draw in the United States. And all three
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Nearly eleven months ago, in August 2023, the New York Times reported that U.S. officials had estimated that some 500,000 Russians and Ukrainians had been killed, wounded, or missing in the then 18-month Ukrainian War. Both Russia and Ukraine underreport their losses. Hundreds of thousands of additional casualties have followed
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Ukraine has ossified into something like the modern version of the horrific Battle of Verdun, fought 108 years ago on the 1916 Western Front of World War I. That meat grinder cost France and Germany some 700,000 dead and wounded. The nightmare ended ten months later, after the heroic French
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In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc look at the proposed new aid to the Ukraine, Biden’s race against truth, the origins of World War II, and the origins of frustration in Oliver Anthony‘s “Rich Men North of Richmond.” Share This
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