Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Did Demons Create the First Atomic Bombs? Every August, debate renews over both the wisdom and the morality of dropping the two American atomic bombs, 81 years ago, on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945). This August has been no exception. As ever,… Continue reading Were the Bombs of August 1945 ‘Demonic’?
VDH on California’s Mail-In Ballots, John Bolton’s Classified Case, and D-Day’s First Week
“I can think of three races where Californian Republicans in purple districts clearly won on Election Day—they’ve even had victory celebrations. And then it starts just like this. You start to see the mail‑in ballots and then trickle, tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle, and the portions have nothing to do with the proportions that were… Continue reading VDH on California’s Mail-In Ballots, John Bolton’s Classified Case, and D-Day’s First Week
Trump’s New War Production Board?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The left weighs in on anything that Trump is against, which drives it to lionize criminals like Abrego Garcia, champion open borders, and oppose increased oil and natural gas production. And they are against anything Trump is for. So often, they did not care much about big-city crime rates, supported… Continue reading Trump’s New War Production Board?
Disinformation and the Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Legitimate disagreement about the wisdom of dropping two bombs on Japan to end World War II in 1945 persists even 80 years later, as reflected in discussions this past week. But recently, there has often been no real effort even to present the facts, much less to consider the lose-lose… Continue reading Disinformation and the Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
Germany’s New Morgenthau Plan
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Less than a year before the end of World War II, then U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau drew up a nightmarish plan to punish postwar Germany. After the serial 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War, World War I, and World War II—along with the failed Versailles peace treaty of 1919—the Allies… Continue reading Germany’s New Morgenthau Plan
Ukraine and the Winter War, 1939-1940
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,… Continue reading Ukraine and the Winter War, 1939-1940
Who Will Say No More to the Current Madness?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Britain slept in the 1930s as an inevitable war with Hitler loomed. A lonely Winston Churchill had only a few courageous partners to oppose the appeasement and incompetence of his conservative colleague Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. One of the most stalwart truth-tellers was a now little remembered politico and public… Continue reading Who Will Say No More to the Current Madness?
Remembering the Horrors of D-Day
Seventy-nine years ago this week, the Allies assaulted the Normandy beaches on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Their invasion marked the largest amphibious landing since the Persians under Xerxes invaded the Greek mainland in 480 B.C. Nearly 160,000 American, British, and Canadian soldiers stormed five beaches of Nazi-occupied France. The plan was to liberate Western Europe… Continue reading Remembering the Horrors of D-Day