{"id":13021,"date":"2021-03-24T11:32:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T18:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13021"},"modified":"2021-03-24T11:32:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T18:32:43","slug":"in-a-feeble-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/in-a-feeble-position\/","title":{"rendered":"In a Feeble Position"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ <em>VDHPodcast<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Victor discusses America\u2019s new class warfare, the foreign-policy consequences of our Feeble POTUS, the Biden Administration\u2019s getting out-manipulated by Red China and Russia&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-background-dim is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/biden-falls.jpg)\"><p class=\"wp-block-cover-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/podcasts\/the-victor-davis-hanson-podcast\/episode-60-in-a-feeble-position\/\"><strong>VDH Podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ VDHPodcast Victor discusses America\u2019s new class warfare, the foreign-policy consequences of our Feeble POTUS, the Biden Administration\u2019s getting out-manipulated by Red China and Russia&#8230;..<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3o1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6345,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/obamas-middle-east-mess\/","url_meta":{"origin":13021,"position":0},"title":"Obama&#8217;s Middle East Mess","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"When we don't support our potential allies and encourage constitutional rule, Egypt is the result. by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/\u00a0National Review Online \u00a0 In Egypt the Obama administration has managed to alienate the military, secular constitutionalists, the Islamists, and the proverbial street all at once. 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