Join the Saturday edition with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc as they discuss the conferences ending WWII, Trump presidency already begun, anti-Semitism in our universities, Wray steps down, West Point joins smear campaign against Hegseth, and Israel takes out weapons depots in Syria.
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I was hoping Musk or Trump would buy the southern border wall steel at auction and move to one of their properties. Good business for truckers.
Great idea. Maybe they did under a shell company?
Or some rich would buy it then donate it to Trump for a tax break.
Or someone with enough money just buy them up and Donate them to the UNited States. Maybe get a tax break? This type of selflessness is needed for Americans to prosper.
Better if no one buys it during the Biden administration.
The Babylon Bee is ahead of you:
https://babylonbee.com/news/mysterious-user-orangeman47-snatches-up-all-border-wall-materials-in-online-auction
Absolutely great content. Thank you VDH and company.
Biden and his cheap shots…selling the wall pieces.
I have thoroughly enjoyed Victor’s weekend journey through WW2. I have learned so much from his analysis, alot more so than the revisionist version I was taught in college decades ago. You should consider editing all of these episodes into one file so we could listen back to back a second (or third, fourth, etc) time to truly understand the story of how this war played out. Thanks Victor and Sami for another excellent offering!
Shameful that Pete Hegseth had to rely on his own records to dispel the legacy media lying about his acceptance into West Point and West Point seemingly unwilling to make an expedient correction. Disquieting that the Naval Academy is so off course with woke professors. I agree that the USNA needs to be staffed by career officers who have the appropriate qualifications in subject areas.
My understanding is that Texas is buying the steel for the wall at the bargain prices, and will donate it to the wall building efforts of the new administration.
On another note: I would suggest that Dr. Hanson read “The China Mirage”
Bradley’s books include “Flags Of Our Fathers,” about the men who raised a flag over Iwo Jima in World War II. His father was one of those who raised it. And Bradley has since spent two books arguing that the United States blundered needlessly into multiple wars in the Pacific. His new book “The China Mirage” portrays a long-running American mistake. He says the United States for generations has utterly misunderstood China. He traces this story back to the early 1800s to the grandfather of an American president. The president was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and, James Bradley, who was the grandfather?
JAMES BRADLEY: The grandfather was Warren Delano, the American opium king of China.
Vis-a-vis professors at the Naval Academy, I graduated in ’71. One of my thermodynamics professors (a required course then) was a retired Navy captain, PhD, who helped Admiral Rickover develop the nuclear powered engine. I promise you that you wouldn’t find a more conservative, military man. The head of the Oceanography Dept was a retired Navy captain, PhD, who was also a patriotic, dedicated naval officer. I would not want midshipmen to miss out on the talents and military experiences of people like these. You have to vet them, yes, but they were wonderful, inspiring, and very demanding professors.
I also take exception to your typical academic requirement that the instructors all have PhDs. I had a number of military officers who were highly trained, and had actual operational experience using the technologies that they taught. Several of them participated in the development of those technologies.
But that was 53 years ago. I wonder how many instructors at all three of the service academies are traditional conservatives, and how many have been hired over the past 30 years, with ever-increasing levels of Leftist/progressive views?
Not questioning your point. Obviously there have been too many. Many of those are probably not even technically and/or tactically proficient. I believe that there are still a number of retired mid-grade officers (Cdr-Capt) who love the Academy, are scholars, and who would be great sources of inspiration and guidance to midshipmen. (likewise for the other Academies)
By the way, who chairs the departments if there is no tenure?
Re-establish the primary purposes of imbuing midshipmen morally, mentally and physically with the highest ideals of naval service and retired officer-technician-scholars will reemurge. Just got to thoroughly vet them.
Victor
I really appreciate your last comments.
I grew up in the 50s.
Everyone got along with each other.
There was no friction that I ever saw.
No one was mad.
Now they’ve made everyone mad at each other. Yes. We’re done with that!
“We are neighbors and it is good.”
I do enjoy that Biden was the Obama third term and exposed as a fraud in my view. But I’m more interested in the relationship between MacArthur and Eisenhower. Who was boss during ww2.