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Trump’s Ukrainian Tightrope

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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From Nasrallah to Criminal Illegals

Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler on the death of Hezbollah’s leader, Orwellian lies about the border exposed, Putin snared by explaining battlefield casualties, Harris’s numbers bleeding, protecting Trump rallies and secret services, and the numbers on criminal illegals. Share This

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Our Ukrainian War Narrative—Paradoxes, Obsessions, and Disconnects

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness About half of America sympathizes with Ukraine’s plight and wishes to arm it. After all, Kyiv was attacked preemptively by Vladimir Putin on February 24, 2022, in an effort to decapitate its government and turn the country into a Russian satellite, perhaps similar to the status of a Belarus or

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Hostages, Harris and the Machiavellian Touch

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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Rockets, Nuclear Weapons and Flag Burning

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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Stop the Ukrainian Meatgrinder?

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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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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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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Putin Interview, Biden Defense, and Free Speech

Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler analyze Tucker Carlson’s interview of Putin, Biden’s response to documents investigation, and the Mark Steyn settlement which is about free speech. Share This

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The Ukrainian Gordian Knot

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Most Americans understandably favor the Ukrainian resistance against Vladimir Putin’s Russian naked 2022 aggression. Yet for Ukraine to break the current deadlock—our generation’s Verdun with perhaps 600,000 combined casualties so far— and “win” the war, it apparently must have the military wherewithal to hit targets inside Russia. Such strategically logical attacks might

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