{"id":11286,"date":"2018-07-20T11:33:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T18:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11286"},"modified":"2018-07-20T11:33:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T18:33:21","slug":"putins-false-equivalency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/putins-false-equivalency\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin\u2019s False Equivalency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p>We are in dangerous times. Amid the hysteria over the Russian summit, the Mueller collusion probe, nonstop unsupported allegations and rumors, the Strzok and Page testimonies, the ongoing congressional investigations into improper CIA and FBI behavior, and a completely unhinged media, there is a growing crisis of rising tensions between two superpowers that together possess a combined arsenal of 3,000 instantly deployable nuclear weapons and another 10,000 in storage. That latter existential fact apparently has been forgotten in all the recriminations. So it is time for all parties to deescalate and step back a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Trump understandably wants to avoid progressive charges that he is obstructing Robert Mueller\u2019s ostensible investigation of Russian collusion, and he also wants some sort of d\u00e9tente with Russia. Mueller has likely indicted Russians, timed on the eve of the summit, in part on the assumption that they would more or less not personally defend themselves and never appear on U.S. soil.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/vladimir-putin-michael-mcfaul-false-equivalency\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review We are in dangerous times. Amid the hysteria over the Russian summit, the Mueller collusion probe, nonstop unsupported allegations and rumors, the Strzok and Page testimonies, the ongoing congressional investigations into improper CIA and FBI behavior, and a completely unhinged media, there is a growing crisis of rising tensions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1169,375,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2W2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11749,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-tables-turn-in-russian-collusion-hunt\/","url_meta":{"origin":11286,"position":0},"title":"The Tables Turn in Russian Collusion Hunt","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 1, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The irony of the entire Russian collusion hoax is that accusers who cried the loudest about leaking, collusion, lying, and obstruction are themselves soon very likely to be accused of just those crimes. 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