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Things That Are Not: from “Cheapfakes” to “War Crimes”

Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc to look at the week’s news: New York appellate court upholds Trump gag order, Biden’s last-ditch effort at the border and “cheapfakes,” Putin and North Korea’s strategic pact, Netanyahu accused of “war crimes,” California mayors in trouble, Göring record in WWII, and Willie Mays RIP.

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The Pandemic of Nuclear Trash Talk

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness After the world escaped a nuclear exchange during the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962, it has been generally understood that nuclear-armed nations did not publicly threaten their rivals and enemies with thermonuclear weapons. Of course, there were occasional lunatic exceptions to the rule. Since 2006, when the unhinged North

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Loud + Weak = War

China and Russia are no more impressed with empty bluster today than Japan was in 1941. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online  The Roosevelt administration once talked loudly of pivoting to Asia to thwart a rising Japan. As a token of its seriousness, in May 1940 it moved the home port of the Seventh

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Nuclear Gangbangers

Hostile countries with nuclear capabilities have the upper hand on the global police. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online  The gangster state of North Korea became a nuclear power in 2006–07, despite lots of foreign aid aimed at precluding just such proliferation — help usually not otherwise accorded such a loony dictatorship. Apparently the

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