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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Join the Friday news roundup with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc: Zelensky goes to Pennsylvania, Biden-Harris interviews run amok, the Al Smith Roast thwarted, Trump endorsed by Muslim mayor, the Routh Manifesto, Janet Jackson say Harris’ father is white, and the Secret Service report on Butler, PA. Share This
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness An October surprise is usually defined as the well-known (and more often left-wing) tactic of manufacturing or unloading a news story right before voting to surprise a rival without allowing them time sufficiently to respond or recover. Think of the last-minute bombshell disclosure, five days before the 2000 election, that
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In early World War II, on November 30, 1939, a Soviet-Russian army invaded Finland in a surprise massive attack. The Finns were eventually outnumbered nearly 3 to 1. The population of the Soviet Union in 1940 was 50 times larger than that of Finland’s. Finland’s former anti-Soviet ally, Nazi Germany,
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Most Americans sympathize with Ukraine and were and are willing to supply it with defensive weapons to repel Russian aggression. Proof of that goodwill is the virtual draining of U.S. weapon stocks—from stockpiles of anti-tank weapons and large-caliber artillery shells to anti-aircraft and surface-to-surface missiles. Yet the more the United States gives, the more Volodymyr
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The Ukraine mess is daily looking more like the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939, a meat grinder that took 500,000 lives. That three-year conflict became a savage proxy war and prelude for the belligerents of World War II. The Ukraine battlefield is proving a similar laboratory of death.
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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for this episode that looks at some recent news on SBF, the FBI, and Zelensky’s speech. Then VDH turns to the means by which the cultural malaise of the Left might be reversed. Share This
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