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The Ukrainian Verdun

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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Depositions, Elections, and Military Questions

Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc in the Friday news round up: Hunter’s deposition, Michigan elections, predicting the 2024 election, Smirnov’s arrest, Eric Adam’s reservation about sanctuary city status, Kirby says no troops on Ukrainian ground, and Prime Minister Netanyahu interviewed. Share This

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Russia! Russia! Forever: An Anatomy of a Left-wing Obsession

Collusion about Collusion The more candidate Trump in 2016 trolled the Clinton campaign (e.g., “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press”), the more the irate left bought into hysterical conspiracy theories. Finally, the left became …

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War, Scores and the Last Tragedian

In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about the Ukraine War two years later, Trump settlement and the NY business community, S.A.T. scores return to university admissions, new non-science in CDC and Health Department decisions, and the last tragedian Euripides. Share This

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The Strange Disconnect Between Israel and Ukraine

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The Ukrainian and Israeli wars are similar and yet also different conflicts—but in more ways than we can imagine. Ukraine was invaded by a huge Russian state, with a population three-and-a-half times greater, a gross national product ten times larger, and an area thirty times its size. Hamas, by contrast, …

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2024—America’s Year of Living Dangerously

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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Can Europe Become Western Again?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness For the first time in a millennium, Europe no longer plays a critical role in promoting Western civilization nor in world history at large. Ostensibly it should. Some 750 million people live on the European subcontinent. Europe still remains the most popular tourist spot on earth. Its hallowed architecture, art, …

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The Left Are the Great Destroyers of Civilization

In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the balance sheet of imperialism, the Russian way of war, Polish minister remarks on the West, and why a teacher is rehired after wielding a machete against a reporter. Share This

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