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Victor Davis Hansen
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Victor Davis Hansen
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Unknown Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Victor Davis Hansen show and to our Weekend Edition. We like to look at something cultural or in this case it will be warfare. We've been working on World War II and Victor's going to talk about some of the peripheral wars during World War II in the middle segment, so please stay with us for that. And we're going to be looking at, of course, as we always do, some of the most recent news. It appears that LA Times has fired their entire editorial staff, so we'll start with that. Stay with us and we'll be right back. Hi everyone. I would like to introduce you to Lumen, the world's first handheld metabolic coach. It's a device that measures your metabolism through your breath and on the app it lets you know if you're burning fat or carbs and gives you tailored guidance to improve your nutrition, workout, sleep and even stress management. All you have to do is breathe into your lumen first thing in the morning and you'll know what's going on with your metabolism, whether you're burning mostly fats or carbs. Then Lumen gives you a personalized nutrition plan for that day based on your measurements. You can also breathe into it before and after workouts and meals so you know exactly what's going on in your body in real time. And Lumen will give you tips to keep you on top of your health game. I use the Lumen app. Its measurements of fat and carb burning have helped me to healthier eating, exercise and fasting habits. I love the Lumen app even more because it gives advice on meals and recipes and exercise and even trains me to understand my metabolic health. Your metabolism is your body's engine. It's how your body turns the food you eat into fuel that keeps you going. Because your metabolism is at the center of everything your body does. Optimal metabolic health translates to a bunch of benefits, including easier weight management, improved energy levels, better fitness results, better sleep, etc. If you want to stay on track with Your health this holiday season. Go to Lumen Me Backslash Victor to get 15% off your lumen. That is L M E N me Victor V I C T O R for 15% off your purchase. Lumen makes a great gift, too. Thank you, Lumen, for sponsoring this episode of the Victor Davis Hansen Show.
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Unknown Speaker
Welcome back to the Victor Davis Hansen Show. Victor is the Martin and Nealy Anderson Senior Fellow in Military History and Classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College. You can find him at his website, victorhanson.com it's called the Blade of Perseus. Lots of good stuff there, either for free. So come have a look. And then there is, of course, the subscription material, the VDH Ultra articles. $5 a month or $50 a year. So, Victor, it appears that the LA Times has replaced or is replacing its entire editorial staff. I find that encouraging.
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Victor Davis Hansen
You do?
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Unknown Speaker
I think. I don't know. Are they just going to hire on the same people?
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Victor Davis Hansen
Well, you know, it's this multi billionaire, Patrick Soon.
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah.
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Victor Davis Hansen
And his radical, radical daughter took it over. They used to pick up my syndicated column. In fact, from time to time, they actually would ask me for a special op ed. So they were not. They were left wing, but they were not crazy. I can't forget. I can't forgive them, though. I know that. I've talked about the USC president, by the way. The US President just resigned. She did. And that was a disaster. USC had miraculously, under the prior two presidents, Max Nakias, my friend, and the prior president. It had raised so much money and had raised so the GRE, the SAT scores and graduate and undergraduate, the GPAs. It was more exclusive than UCLA and it was getting right near Stanford, if not the same. And it was. It was just on a massive fundraising drive. And then when they had that incident about the GYNECOLOGIST which, by the way, they never prosecuted him. But they went after the President because he had turned it over to an internal community committee and they wanted the DA right in on it. And the da, of course, eventually came on it and found no actionable cause. So I think he's passed away now, but they never convicted him of anything. So my point is that I was overseas when this happened, but the LA Times just demagogued that case. They were horrible. You know what I mean? The reporters, they were just making up stuff and going after usc. It was terrible. And they do that. And during the forest fires, they were printing op EDS about biologists that said that this was, you know, that grubs and worms and dead trees were all part of the ecosystem, even though they fed the fire. They were just insane is what I'm saying. And they lost a lot of their subscribers, you know, hundreds of thousands of them. And nobody reads it. And it used to be a very good paper. The Chandler family, you know, it was conservative. So it's a disaster. And this is just part of a wider trend, isn't it? Msnbc. I don't know how long they're going to have that racist Joy read there, but she is down to about 7 or 800,000 people. You know what I mean?
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah, nothing.
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Victor Davis Hansen
You know, an average Fox anchor in a comparable time period gets 3 million.
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah.
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Victor Davis Hansen
So. And she's just driving people away on the left. Nobody other than the left watches it, but when you just say race, race, race, white, white, white, white, uneducated people, stupid, stupid, stupid, like she does all the time. And they lose money. So just to question, these corporate left wing conglomerates were always willing to lose a little money. Jeff Bezos, maybe 20 million, not 100 million. CNN not 100 million, MSNBC, not 150 million. And so why would you. We talked about that before. Anderson Cooper and all those people.
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah.
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Victor Davis Hansen
And so this election, as I said in an op ed, was about the people who lecture and the people who get lectured to. And the people got lectured to say, I'm done with you people. Even Matthew Iglesias. And I've had a run in with him before the left, left wing writer, he came out with a manifesto the other day and said, we have to treat people the way we want to be treated. We have to worry about the middle class. We don't. The transgender fixation is a dead end. Politically. It was amazing.
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah.
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Victor Davis Hansen
So I think everybody on the left is saying, we did this before when the governor and then we didn't learn our lesson. And we ran Jimmy Carter, and he got in only because of Watergate. And then we screwed up and he was gone. And then we got 12 years of Reagan, Bush, and then we came back, and that was because of Dick Morris and Bill Clinton. And Dick Morris was a stealthy advisor. Then he came out overtly, and that was, you know, I just want to say that Sister Soulja, how dare you bring up race like that? That's racist. And then, you know, he said, and I want 100,000 police officers. I want night basketball. I want uniforms. And it was all. And we. What is it about illegal immigration you don't understand? We're going to close the border. We want legal, but we don't want illegal. We ought to protect our workers. That was the union, you know, and he won. He didn't win the majority. He never won 50% of the vote, I mean, because of Ross Perot, et cetera. And he defeated, as you know, Bush and Dole. And the Democratic Party was on its way. And then it started going, and Bush came in, and then the Obama thing was different. You can't really define that politically. Because of his novel status and the first black person, the exotic name. I mean, if he had been Barry Sortero, which he went by for years anyway, that's a whole different story. But they are in McGovern territory now, and they're going to have to reboot and renounce all of that.
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah.
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Victor Davis Hansen
And they've got a bigger problem now because the demography is changing and the AOC people and the squad and. And to rein in those lunatics. It's going. They're gonna. They'll never go back to where they were.
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Unknown Speaker
You don't think so? I hope you're right. Because what amazes me is they always just stop short of just admitting they were a bunch of liars. And now they're onto the accusation of there's gonna be mass deportations, mass family. What are your thoughts on the current immigration?
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Victor Davis Hansen
I think there was something called mass importations, and no one said a word. Do they care about the black people in Chicago that couldn't get medical services or get to the ER or any of that stuff? When they brought in thousands of illegal aliens, did they care about the people along the Rio Grande River? Communities that suddenly had to have bilingual education? They had gang members, they had cartels. Did they care about the parents of the hundred thousand people who were killed from fentanyl overdoses? Why this administration let China just send in fentanyl raw product to the cartels who then smuggled across in the Joe Biden influx? No. Do they care about the San Joaquin Valley communities that have been saturated by illegals? No, they didn't care at all. None of these people did. They broke the law when they came in, they broke the law when they resided. They broke the law with their phony IDs. So they just, I, you know, I wrote a book, the Dying Citizen, but I didn't think it would be this mad that a citizen would have to get a real ID and go through all these hoops to get it and then somebody who broke the law would just cut in front of them in an airport and be flown by the US government at, you know, taxpayers expense. So that is the aberration and it's, they're outraged. We'll get used to it. Because there were 20 million illegal aliens here before this happened. 10 million in California alone has half of them, that's a quarter of the population. But this was 12 million on top of that. And when you talk about people in general of all statuses, you got 16% of the nation was not born in the United States. That's 55, 60 million people. We've never been here before. Never been here before. Not during the Irish influx, not during the Eastern European, never. So they didn't care about the consequences on anybody of the middle class. And we saw that with the Martha's Vineyard fiasco. So they're going to be graduated. So they're going to go after the criminals first with anytime they can pick one up in the data bank that's committed a crime in their home country or here and that could be anywhere from 3 to 500,000. Then they're going to go after the people who are not working or in gangs or something, or they're on public assistance. That will probably be 2 or 3 million. Where they're going to get in trouble, and I don't want to use that word is the people who have been here three years, maybe the first cohort, and they're working and they're not on public assistance and they haven't committed a crime. And that will be a little, the employers will go after the administration and they're going to have to deport some of them. What they need to do as they deport the 12 million that came in under Biden, they need to first of all change the rhetoric and just say we didn't want to do this, we don't want to do it, but we have to, otherwise we have no law. Sort of remorseful but tough. And we're not going to back down. But of course, we were put in this position by Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and they put us in an impossible situation because if we don't do this, we have no law. Why, if somebody gets a parking ticket or gets a traffic ticket, why should he pay a fine when these people committed felonies and they get off scot free? So they have to do that. And they also then have to emphasize fentanyl. Fentanyl. Fentanyl. Cartels, Cartels, cartels, cartels. People who are not working, not working, not working all the time. And then when they get to the 20 million that have been here from 10 to 15 years, they need to say, look, if you've been here, let's say five years, maybe 10, and you haven't broken the law and you're not on public assistance and you're working and you have no criminal record, you can go through a process where you pay a nominal fine for your crime, you can stay here and apply for a green card, not a citizenship. That's a lengthy process. Then you have to get in the back of the line behind legal applicants. And I think that if they did that simultaneously, all that they could get, they could get rid of the 12 million. Yeah, they could return them to Cinder. There's 25,000 Chinese nationals. I say that because there was an odd story by an Australian security analyst because Mark Milley blathered along with Austin when the Chinese balloon with impunity traversed the United States and it seemed to hover over strategic bases and military sites. They said, well, we looked at the data and there was no international transmissions. I don't know if that's true or not. But this analyst pointed out that a lot of the controls of a lot of the controls and the data transmissions of that type of balloon are directed from the ground in the immediate vicinities. And her argument was, you better go check the transmissions of Chinese nationals, of which there's 300,000 students, to see if they were receiving. If you have 1%, you've got 3,000 people who are actively operatives of the Chinese government. And her point was, a lot of that information may have been transmitted to people who deliberately were in the vicinity. And the other thing is, there were 26,000 Chinese nationals that came in under this influx. We don't know who they are. How could anybody leave Communist China, which is a totalitarian Orwellian society, and the government not know? You think you just get in the middle in your mainland China? You just leave. And the government goes, oh, we have nowhere. We don't know who they are. No, they either have to get permission or they were known to leave and they didn't do anything about it. Which begs the question, who are these people? We don't know they're coming from. I mean, our enemy China is a de facto enemy. Do you think in 1936 we weren't an enemy of Germany yet, but we knew what Germany was about? Do you think if 10,000 German nationals, not Jewish German nationals, members, maybe some of them of the Nazi party came to the United States, we wouldn't be worried about it? So it's something and they're going to have to address it. And I think Tom Holman's the perfect person to do it. Obama used to praise him to the skies. Because when Obama lost The midterms of 2010, one of the issues was illegal immigration. And he flipped for a while. If you remember, his speech as late as 2012 at the convention was that they had to enforce the law. Then he became woke and he said, you know, they're going to pick up poor little kids on the street and they're going to tear. But before that, he adopted The Clinton Pelosi 1990s view of illegal immigration. And the thing that's going to really change it is they don't have to. They should just say to the 600 sanctuary jurisdictions, the cities and states that say that they're not going to cooperate or they're going to nullify federal law. They say, well, we have a choice. You have a choice. You can either forego federal assistance which won't be coming for you because you're defying the law. So you don't want federal assistance, you're not going to get it except in times of emergencies. Or they can say, well, if you want to selectively to enforce the law and you do not want sanctuary cities to be sanctions for violating federal law in South Carolina fashion of 1832, then we're going to apply that across the board. So all you red states, if you want to just violate federal gun registration laws, just go and buy a.44 Magnum and take it home with you. No back. That's, that's what we're going to do. And you know what, if you're going to build something, there's no such thing as a federal endangered species list anymore. And you know the EPA, inland waterways declaring little Pond. No, you can just ignore that. That's where we're headed.
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. Victoria. Oh, go ahead.
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Victor Davis Hansen
Well, it's all about the hypocrisy of the left. They always want one standard for them sanctuary cities, but not for other people. We're going to be neo confederates and nullify the law. But you are insurrectionists if you do so it's like her campaign. You know we were talking last time about Oprah 5. It says that she got a million but it went to her company. And now we learn that Megan thee stallion got 5 million and the woman who did toenail manicures got 5,000. Megan, she got 5 million. And then we've learned that this rapper got 15,000. And it all becomes clear now. Lady Gaga, they were just hiring people to endorse. They basically said because they all endorsed them. They didn't just play at these concerts. Bon Jovi. So it was sort of like hey Victor, we know what your speaking fee is. We'll give you a lot of money. Just show up at a Trump rally and give a lecture and endorse him and we'll pay you. And that's really. And especially if you're a journalist. It's really unethical. And then they looked at the, these federal, these affidavits you have to fill out when you're campaign expenditures. They were using private jets like crazy. This is the Green party that believes in carbon footprints are destroying the planet. And they were just flying all over. All these operatives were. And how she went through a billion dollars. I mean they had a billion and a half under Biden because he had been running for office for a year. Well, that was all gone. I think he only had 100 million he turned over to her. But she had a billion dollars in a hundred days. Think of that. She was going through, you know, she was going through 100,000 bucks a day. And that was not the PACs. That was another billion dollars. The political action committee. This was just her campaign. And so what do you think the donors attitude? Oh, I really like paying Cardi B $5 million. We needed a toenail specialist. We needed to get a lot of net jets to jet these people all around privately. I don't think they're going to like that. I don't think they're going to give the. Now she's talking about running for governor for news. I don't think that's going to work.
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Victor Davis Hansen
Yeah, I think they would have done that when Biden came in. All lawful orders. Lawful. Lawful, meaning we're going to, we're right back to where we were in 2017 when Rosa Brooks, a former Pentagon lawyer, wrote something for Foreign Policy where she said, as I've quoted a number of times, that was 11 days after the inauguration when she said we've got to get rid of Trump. 25th Amendment, too slow, Too slow. Impeachment, Too slow. Military coup. All we have to say is that he sends a order that you don't think is law if you don't think it's lawful. So basically, he's basically emphasizing that all of the officers of the US Military will make a judgment if a order is lawful. And where does that lead to? That leads to Mark Milley bragging in the Woodward book. But I think he's since confirmed that under congressional cross examination that if he'd. Dr. Milley. And when Barrister Milley feels that Donald Trump was unhinged and gave him an order and his constitutional expertise was not lawful, then he called up his Chinese counterpart and said, do you know what? I've got a president that's unsteady and he may break our Constitution. And when he does, I will call you first. Where does that lead? That would be, we just sentenced that Texera fellow for what, 15 years for giving away, you know, breaking class, breaking out classified information and disseminating it. And what if he had said Well, I thought it was a lawful order. I thought that it was. And we just found this CIA analyst that had leaked all of the, not all of it, but some pertinent information that the United States government had about the nature of the Israeli attack to come on Iran. And I guess he could say now, well I did it because I felt that it was a lawful order. You can see where that leads. And so that's why Pete Heseth is there, because he knows what he has. He has all of these self righteous people in the Pentagon that have vastly abused rules, regulations, Uniform code of Military justice and ethics. Now we know the symptoms of that. The symptoms of that is we are short 155 million milliserams by year. We are behind seven years in restoring our Javelin missiles. We can't build submarines on surfer ship. We don't have the capacity to do it. What this needs to be done. We know from the Ukraine war and the Middle east conflicts that we're in a new age of cheap stuff, just like World War II. Cheap stuff, lots of it. Lots of Sherman tanks. Don't build a Su King Tiger, don't do it. Lots of four engine B24s and B17s bang for the buck. 20 times cheaper than a V1 or V2 rocket. Lots, lots, lots of P51, P47 fighters, great fighters, not so much me. 262 jets. That's what won the war. Lots of good stuff. And yet we're not building cheap four or $5,000 drones. We should have remote platforms at sea, maybe with a skeleton crew. And on their flat deck they should have a thousand drones, right? All automated. We should have drone, submarine, we should have all of that, but in huge numbers. And we don't. And part of the problem we don't is what we're talking about, the Pentagon. Not only do we have people who have obstructed orders like Melly and others, but we have a whole retired group of generals that are out of control. When you have General Hayden and he's tweeting that Donald Trump is like the architects of Auschwitz for building cages which he didn't build, Obama built. And we have General McCaffrey that says that the President is a liar or Mussolini, that was. McChrystal said he was a liar and McCaffrey said he was Mussolini. And I could go on and on. And that is completely out of control because they're all subject to Article 88 of the Uniform Code of Mental Justice. And then we have Austin who's giving these Lectures. He came right out of Raytheon. Big surprise where he's going to go when he, he's going to be out in January. Where do you think he's going to go? I bet you he's going to go right back to Raytheon and then he's going to say to Raytheon, I got a lot of subordinates in procurement. All I got to do is pick up the phone and we can get, you know, more Patriot batteries with their one or two million dollar missiles. Yeah. So it's corrupt. And the DEI where you basically predicate promotion, retention, tenure in the military on the basis of what? Your race, your gender, your sexual orientation. Not the old days where you make sure that nobody uses those for negative reasons or to hurt people. Now we're using it just the opposite, but still fashion. And that means we're not looking at military, utility and meritocracy. Think the Chinese do that? No.
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Unknown Speaker
No.
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Victor Davis Hansen
The Russians do that? No. And I'm not suggesting their militaries are better than ours, but they, we need to get back to merit. We need to tell our commanding officers if you want to be a four star general or admiral, you're not going to go right out at retirement at 55 or 60 and go make $20 million advising your new employers how best to sell their junk, not junk in the sense of bad, but their stuff to the Pentagon. We're going to have open, overt, transparent procurement and we're going to go in a new direction of quantity rather than so called quality of that takes years to build and too few numbers to make a difference. And I think we're going to have to have a big shake up there. And that's why we have Pete Hegseth and I see what he does. The thing, you know, we talked about that last podcast. They're going crazy about Getz and I'm not a big fan of that appointment just because I don't know if he has the expertise and the prosecutorial experience and tried and true record of successful prosecutions as a lawyer to go after what he needs to go after to be an effective advocate for the United States people, which would be to stop the weaponization of the doj. But we'll see. I want to withhold judgment, but my point is these people are so self righteous and they keep yelling and screaming the last 72 hours. And you know, Austin was a very good Pete Hexeth. Look at that. Now Austin, as I said last time he was for seven days, he didn't tell people that he was not in control of the Department of Defense. He oversaw, whether he wants to admit it or not, expelling people from the military who had Covid and natural immunity because they did not trust the MRNA vaccination. 8500 he was the one that testified about endemic racism and demagogue that issue. And then when they and didn't tell people that their own Pentagon studies saw no organized white racist cabal and then he did not release the data on the people who are short in recruitment and then there were white males from the middle class. So he's done a lot in Afghanistan. Of course he never took full responsibility to that. He should have resigned at that. He should have said Mr. President, if you pull out just to meet a 9-11-20 year anniversary so you can demagogue that you were the big guy that got it, you're going to get people killed and we're going to lose a billion dollar embassy, a $300 million rehab, Bagram Air Force Base and 50 to 70 billion dollars in military equipment. Don't do it. And he did it. And if he had said that Biden might not have done it and then if he did it anyway, he should have resigned.
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah Victor, we need to go to a break and then we'll come back and talk a little bit more about World War II and the peripheral wars in World War II. So stay with us and we'll be right back.
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We're back. This is the Victor Davis Hansen show and you can find Victor on X and his handle is Dhansen and then also on Facebook at Hansen's Morning Cup. So, Victor, I'm looking forward to this just like last week because we don't hear a whole lot about the peripheral wars. So go ahead. I'm excited to hear about it.
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Victor Davis Hansen
Thanks, Sammy. Remember, we are trying to work through conflicts. And the biggest conflict in history was World War II. So in a series of eight or nine previous segments, we've talked about what caused World War II, the outbreak of World War II, the respective strengths and liabilities of the Axis and the Allies. And then the air campaign, the blitz, invasions of Poland, invasions of France, and then the we spent two segments on the Russian front. So we're basically, if you think the Russian front went from June 22, 1941, all the way to the fall of Berlin and May 8th or 9th of 1945, what was happening during this Russian quagmire in the Pacific and in Europe? And let's look at it. So the bombing campaign, as I said earlier, was the effort from April 42nd until D Day of June 6th, 1944, to offer the Soviets some type of relief. That is, they were not able to go into France on the ground. So they were going to draw off from Russian pressures, German assets. But that wasn't all they did. And we talked about it wasn't as effective as they had planned until mid 44 with the advent of fighter escorts and drop tanks for fighters for long distance, the capture of France, so you had friendly territory to fly over and then changes in radar and improvements in aircraft, the Lancaster coming on online, improved versions of the B17 and 24, etc. But what was striking is that Pearl Harbor's December 7th, we're completely unready for the war, and yet 11 months later, the United States and Britain decide to attack Vichy France as the first campaign. Now, the Americans kept saying, well, this is not what we did in World War I. We went right into France, we landed 2 million people and we got the war over with basically in a Year and a half and the French said yes. And we had France then and the British were here and the Germans never got 80 miles. They own France now. So you're going to have to make an amphibious landing. And that requires naval supremacy. And we don't have it given the U boat menace and the pins from the French coast, the U boat pins. And more importantly, we don't even have air supremacy, which is crucial for an amphibious landing. So the Americans are pushing, pushing, pushing. The British remember the Somme and Passchendaele and World War I and they remember the defeat of France in World War II and they said, you don't know, you've never fought the German army. So the Americans say, okay, what do you want to do? Well, let's go divorce the Vichys from Germany. And so the idea is that you can't assault the mainland of Europe and head into veteran German territory, German occupied, but maybe on the periphery you can do some good. And one would be to knock off Vichy France from the Axis ally alliance. Remember, these are the conquered French who still own their colonies. Now in Indochina, it's been appropriated by the Japanese, but they are nominally still on the side of the axis under General Petain. So just 11 months later they have this huge convoy, some come from Britain and they land all the way from algiers. Algiers, Algeria. 800 miles east at pretty much where Casablanca is in Morocco. So it's a huge front. And the convoy, the so called Western task force, leaves the east coast of the United states and sails 3,000 miles to drop off 30,000 troops. And then in the middle between Casablanca and Algiers at Oran, they're going to bring a task force, an American task force from Britain and then another British, largely British, and go all the way to the east at Algiers. It's a huge effort. This is the first time we've ever met German troops. The Vichys are supposed to fight with Germans. Within a week the Vichys have flipped. They have given some stout initial resistance and then they think, you know what we want to be. On the Allied side, George Patton was in charge of the, he's only a major general, a two star general. He was in charge of the Western task force. He makes very good progress. However, probably the worst general in American history was Lloyd Friedenhal and he's commander of the center force that kind of stagnates. And then he creates a massive bunker 50 miles behind the front line so he can be safe. People had suggested he was drinking. He was Ike's guy. Ike said he looks like a General. He talks like a general. He was one of the. Along with General Lucas, one of the most incompetent American generals. And at the Kaiserne Pass, 3,000Americans are killed, they're routed. Rommel defeats them and they make a lot of changes. And the great change they made was to get rid of Raidenhall and bring in a true military genius to command the center force, Lucian Truscott. And then George W. Patton is put in command of all Allied troops in the North African campaign. And they start to move, move all the way into Tunisia. And they're meeting, remember, at the Battle of El Alamein in first battle in July, and then August, September, Montgomery has defeated it. And the British are coming from the east and they're going to meet the Americans from the west in tunisia. And by July 1943, all Axis troops will either be evacuated or captured. And the captured number was larger than Stalingrad, 250,000. One of the ironies was that there was a time with the fall of Tobruk in summer 1942, that Rommel, he inherited 5,000, 6,000 trucks, tanks, artillery, rations, oil, gas, lubricants, water. He got everything. And he was on his way to la, and he would have taken it in the first battle had the Germans backed him. And they said, no, no, no, no, we're stuck. We're doing the case blue. We're doing the big invasion of this army group south in the Soviet Union. We're going to the oil fields. Rommel said, I have a better trajectory. I can go right through, take the Suez Canal, cut off all British Empire imports through the Mediterranean and get into Saudi Arabia. And they said, no, no, no, no, no. And they didn't supply him. He lost the second battle of Alamein. And then Montgomery met the Americans. And then what? In July, almost immediately. This was Operation Torch. Then they went right into Operation Husky and they took Sicily. Pat, remember was a subordinate commander to Montgomery, and he was supposed to go to Palermo and stay in the west of the island. Then he made a what u turn along the coast and got to Messina quicker than the British. And yet the British and the Americans, no fault to George Patton, let the majority of the 300,000 German troops get into Italy. And then we had the invasion of Italy very quickly in August, September. The British went on the eastern side of the Apennines mountains. The Americans went on the western side. And unfortunately, the British had good commanders, especially Alexander, who was their theater commander. We had terrible commanders. General Lucas stopped on the beaches when they rode to Naples, and then later we stopped on the beaches outside Edanzio, and Mark Clark did not take the Gothic line. He was, if you look at it, he could have easily taken German lines and been behind the retreating Germans instead of on this very day, 4th of July. He wanted the glory of taking Rome exactly like Cesserlin had thought he would do. And the result is we're going to have a million British, American troops, we're going to have 80,000 dead, and we're never going to get to the Austrian border by August, September. They thought up this crazy idea, at least the Americans and the British in Italy thought so, of diverting almost what would become a million men to invade southern France, Saint Topaz there, and then go up and get the Mediterranean ports of Marseilles and Toulon so that they could bring in supplies. But the problem was, once they landed, and they were very successful, but the Avaranche Falaise Gap campaign had already transpired. And guess what? The Americans and the British were already pretty much eastward, so that that southern landing at France just met them up. It didn't trap German troops from the rear, but it did free up the Rhone Valley and they had Mediterranean ports. And then they were set. They were on their way under George Patton. They were on their way. And Montgomery and Omar Bradley, they were on their way to the German border by late 1944. So let me just recap. The idea was the Allies were going to gain experience and they were going to knock out two of the key allies of Germany, the Vichy French in North Africa and the Italians. Did they succeed? Yes. They flipped the Vichy French with Operation Torch in North Africa, then by taking Sicily immediately there was a coup and the Italians declared allegiance to the Allies. Mussolini was dethroned. He went up and created some puppet socialist government up in Northern near Milan. But everybody thought the war would be over. And guess what? The Germans, then under Hitler, decided to put a million men in Italy and to fight bloody defensive war. And it never panned out. What never panned out? Churchill's idea of attacking the underbelly of Europe and getting into Eastern Europe before the Soviets. He didn't trust Stalin. He thought that if they were occupying Eastern Europe, then the Russians wouldn't be able to take over Hungarian, Hungarian land, Romanian land, Polish land. And he was right about that. They did break their word. And it's too bad that they couldn't have got through to Austria at the same time. After Pearl harbor, the Americans thought they had to do something in the Pacific, but they only had three carriers, Lexington, Enterprise and Saratoga. They wouldn't get the Hornet and Wasp till later at Pearl Harbor. And the first six months were an utter disaster. We lost Wake Island. The Japanese took Singapore in February. We lost the Corregidor, Philippines, Bataan. By April, we were completely defeated. There was a series of naval battles where the Dutch fleet was destroyed. The Australian fleet was neutered. The British and the American Americans were defeated for the first six months of the war, the battle of Jalvasi, which is now Indonesia. We were just a disaster, undermanned under ship, so to speak. We only had one bright spot. We had a genius named Jimmy Doolittle who figured out how to take B25s medium bombers and take off from an aircraft carrier, the Hornet, with the Enterprise. And they had bombed 30 seconds over Tokyo. We remember that book. And that had terrified the Japanese, even though the actual damage was marginal. So the main components of the Japanese fleet were now mobilized to destroy what they thought was the American fleet before this huge building program could be actualized. Remember when the war started, thanks to Carl Vinson and the Vincent Naval Acts we had, and thanks to Franklin Roosevelt, we had created a fleet on paper that would be the largest fleet in the world and would be larger than all of the other fleets combined. And we're talking 25 Essex carriers. What would be 120 light and escort carriers, the North Carolina and Iowa class battleships, best in the world, a huge submarine fleet, cruisers, heavy cruisers, but they were all under construction, and we were dealing with the assets. We had the 193538 fleet. And it was outgunned and outmanned by the Japanese. So they wanted to finish us off and then create an iron wall, so to speak, in the Pacific so we could. And they were going to take Pearl harbor as well. The first item was taking Australia. And they bombed Darwin, and then they were going to land in New Guinea. And then the Americans got Lexington and they had Yorktown. Yorktown and Hornet and Wasp were small carriers about. They were fleet carriers, but they were about 20 tons. Saratoga and Lexington had been battle cruisers. They were large, 35,000 tons. And Saratoga was torpedoed at the Battle of Coral Sea, June 4 to 6, right off New guinea between Australia and the Coral Sea. Believe it or not, the Americans got a tie. They stopped the invasion, they sank a light carrier. They lost. The famous Lexington was destroyed, bombed and blew up. The Yorktown was heavily damaged, and they brought it back to Hawaii. The Japanese had a damaged fleet carrier, and they had so many naval losses that they were not able to field six fleet carriers that had appeared just six months earlier at Pearl harbor, but under Yamamoto, they said, now we have to do something. After the Doolittle raid and after Coral Sea, we've got to lure the Americans out and have a colossal final battle of the Pacific. And we will have four carriers, and they will only have the Enterprise, and they will only have the Hornet, and they will only have the Yorktown. But the Yorktown is so crippled or sunk, it probably won't be there. Remember, Saratoga is torpedoed, Lexington is sunk, and guess what? They bring in the Yorktown, it's crippled, they shut down the power grid in Hawaii, and they fix the ship up to be able to be navigable. 72 hours. They have workmen, they show up off Midway island, the Japanese try to bomb it, they send their crews. Admiral Nagumo is not such a great admiral. And the Americans, under Admiral Spruance, who Bill Halsey, has, I think, I guess you could call it some type of nervous disorder that manifests itself with a skin disease. People don't know whether it was histamine or whether it was shingles, but he's incapacitated. So Nimitz gives command to sort of an unknown Spruance, who turned out to be a very bright guy. He made all the correct decisions. And the result of the Battle of Midway was the Americans sink all four fleet carriers. They only lose the Yorktown that was damaged anyway. And there was some heroic. If Walter Lloyd wrote a really. It's a popular book, but Incredible Victory, it's about the Battle of Midway. It was written about 50 years ago. It's a very good book, though, and it's been in several issues, but it really shows you the heroic, the heroism of the pilots that were flying obsolete planes. The Dauntless dive bomber was good, but it was soon to be replaced by the Avenger. And the torpedo bomber, the Devastators, were devastatingly bad. Most of the pilots got killed when you put the torpedo on. They flew in the wind. They didn't go more than 90 miles an hour. They were wiped out by the Japanese as sacrificial lambs. And then the dive bombers came undetected and hit the carriers right when they were being rearmed and very vulnerable. And the Wildcat fighter was inferior. It was not as bad as everybody had said, but it was inferior to the Zero. All of those will be replaced within six months. And you will see the Hellcat, you will see the Avenger, and you will see Marine Corsair fighters. You will see P38 lightnings doing long range. And the Americans will have air superiority and supremacy very quickly. But that's the critical year, 1942, for a brief moment, looks like the Allies have recovered in Russia and the Japanese are still on the move. And it looks like the Axis can still win the war. Remember what they're thinking. We have to defeat occupied territory, knock out the main players before the United States gears up its industrial base that beat us in World War I. We remember what happened in World War I. Hitler declares war on us on December 11th. I don't know why he did it. We talked about why he did it. The submarine campaign was paramount in his mind. He also figured that the United States was not as prepared as it was. In any case, if you think about the summer of 1942, Hitler did not go in, as we said, he did not go into Moscow. He did not try to take it. And they thought he would go after Leningrad in 42 and Moscow, and he didn't. He surprised everybody and held Army Group North, Army Group center, just to a holding pattern and then beefed up Army Group South. He took the Crimea, he took Sebastopol. He was on to Rostovskov, the Don river, the Dietmar and the Volga. He got to Malakop, and he was almost at the Caspian Sea, at Grozny to get the oil of the Soviet Union. And he was going to cut off the Volga river traffic. And then fatally, he split his forces, as you know, And General Paulus went to Stalingrad, which I think was a critical mistake. If they had kept their forces intact, they could have taken the oil fields and denied the Soviet Union most of its oil and also tripled their own supplies. But at that moment, in summer of 1942, they had climbed the Caucasus Mountains at Mount Elbrus. And think of it, that was the high point of the war, not 1941 or 40. The German army was still only about 100. It had withdrawn, but it was still only about 100 or so miles outside of Moscow. It had surrounded Leningrad, which was starving. The bombing campaign had been a failure. The German cities were intact, and they. They were almost at the Caspian Sea to get what is now the oil wealth of Aberdeen in their possession. The Japanese had run wild. They had taken Wake island, they had taken Singapore, they had taken Malaysia, they had taken the Philippines, they had taken Burma, they were bogged down in China, but they were still. They had taken Beijing, they had taken most of the major Chinese cities, and it looked like they were right. In May, they were ready to take New guinea, and with it, they had bombed Darwin. So it was almost useless as a port for a while. And they were going to invade the north and eastern coasts of Australia and cut the supply lines and get the material wealth of Australia. And at the same time, if you looked at the Mediterranean, the Americans had not invaded. Operation Torch at North Africa. And Rommel after the fall of Tobruk was 90 miles from Alexandria, not much farther from the Suez Canal. So what am I saying? In that brief moment where the war was starting to tilt toward the Axis, they had control of parts of Egypt, all of Libya, all of Tunisia, all of Algeria, all of Morocco. They had control of Spain and Portugal as pro Axis neutral powers. They had plans to take Malta. They would have taken Malta had they taken, had they succeeded at El Alamein. They had. Italy was still a, still a viable ally. It had about a half a million troops in North Africa helping the Germans after they had recovered. They were working with Rommel, they had the remember, they took the Balkans, the Greek coastline. All of the Balkans were in their hand. Turkey was a neutral power and pro Axis. And the Japanese at the same time had most just you could make the argument that maybe 100 miles east of Pearl harbor, the Americans had some control of the sea. But they had sunk our first carrier, the Langley. They had sunk the Hermes. The British carrier was one of the earlier ones. And after the battle of Midway, the Saratoga had been torpedoed. The Wasp and the Hornet are going to be sunk in those five terrible sea battles off Guadalcanal in September, October, November of 1942. And there is a point where we only have the Enterprise Now. We have 25 carriers that are coming in December and then all of 1943 and four. So it looked like for a moment Russia might still fall and Germany looks like it's got control over all of Europe and all of the eu, all of the NATO countries and all of the Mediterranean, except for two places, I should say three. They can't get Gibraltar, they can't get Cyprus and they can't get more importantly Suez. And the Germans are working, working on that. Then as we'll see next time, everything changes in late 42 as the American Colossus starts to supply oil and rations and trucks and jeeps and tanks and planes and ships more than ships. Just a whole fleet after fleet after fleet comes off the American shipyards. Kind of sad to think that a recent Pentagon report showed that we can only build a submarine or two a year and our shipyards are in terrible disarray. It takes years to build a fleet sized ship when this country mastered the art of liberty ships and victory ships and military ships, warships. It's sort of sad, but it's a situation where I'll just finish with this note. Hitler, remember in Mein Kampf, said he wanted to destroy the Jewish people and he blamed them for losing World War I, even though Jewish soldiers had been very heroic. One of the tragedies of the Auschwitz, among the great tragedies was that people who had had iron crosses around, around their necks, showed them to the death keepers of the ovens. And it didn't make any difference at all. They were going to kill every Jew. They thought they could kill 12 million Jews. But originally they thought, we're going to win very quickly and we'll send them all to Madagascar. But they didn't have control of the sea. Then they said, well, we want to get rid of the Jews of Western Europe. Half a million to almost three quarters of a million. That's harder because they're assimilated and they're indistinguishable. So we'll have them wear yellow stars and we'll send them to. Let me start that again. They're indistinguishable from. They're not distinguishable as Jews. So we will put stars on them and we'll send them to the cities of the east that we have occupied. Kiev, we'll send them to Belarus, and we'll just let them starve. And then the Reich Minister said, no, no, we don't want them. We're just crowded. And they said, well, we're going to take Russia very quickly. So we'll put all of the Jews on trains and we'll send them into Siberia and we'll just, at the last depot, let them walk into the frigid Arctic and they'll die. But they never got past the suburbs of Moscow. So then they came up in late 41 and 42. They decided that some of the special groups that had been slaughtering Jews had killed at this point, about a million Jews by shooting them. And they came up with mobile gas units where they had trucks with gas chambers. They'd march people in one door of the truck and then out. The bodies were carried out. Pretty gruesome. And then at Wasi, it's a suburb of Berlin, you can go there today. It's a very scenic place. The Final Solution is hammered out. And the idea is that it's not so smart to put Jews on cranes going into Eastern Russia because we're losing Eastern Russia. So we want to kill as many Jews as possible. And we want to do it on areas that are secure. So the idea is, then let's put most of the new extermination camps in Eastern Europe at places like Belsen or Auschwitz or Treblinka. And let's use Zygon B, which is the forerunner of American pesticides, organophosphates and organochlorides, things like dimethylate and things like that, or parathion, both of which I've used. And they're very deadly. Just to. Just the sight of them used to scare me to use parathion should never be used. It's a deadly chemical. But it came out of the German petrochemical industry and it was a off. I don't know what you would call an offspring of the lethal gas issues at the death camps. So those decisions were made as the Germans and the Russians got into a deadlock. The Germans thought the idea of exiling Jews or sending them on trains and then washing your hands of them was not going to work. And more importantly, just to finish today, they came up with this narrative that in the first year of the war on the Eastern Front, they had lost 160,000 dead and 500,000 wounded. That was never expected. They thought they were going to win the war in three weeks. So Hitler began, ran into the two architects of the Holocaust, Himmler and Heydrich, would be assassinated, remember, by Czech teams. He said, I warned the Jews. I warned them that if we have a world war, they caused it. Just like they didn't cause it. He caused it. But he said, I told them that if we have a world war and America and Russia and everybody gets in it, they're going to be wiped out. And now Russia's in it and America's in it. And people went to him and said, this is some people. And the Reich said, you know, what do you do about people who are intermarried? That people, Jews that are indistinguishable, Jews that are central to the economy. He said, I don't care. And we're going to liquidate all of them because they caused World War II. And why would I worry about 12 million Jews when 160 Germans died because of Jews? It was a very deranged view of the world. He was now blaming Jews for his own imbecilic, crazy invasion of the Soviet Union and the death of Germans for the first time in the war on a massive scale in 41 and 42. And that was kind of the catalyst that really triggered the mass extermination element of The Holocaust started in some. The Holocaust started in some sense in 39 when he went into Poland. In some sense. I don't mean intent or actuality, but magnitude. But Auschwitz is a 1942 production, as are most of the death camps. I think one went into operation just in the end of 41, briefly, but mostly they come out of the wise conference. And then by 43, Auschwitz is liquidating up to 10,000 Jews a day. A day. So it's an industrial project and they don't talk about. They just use the word final solution or Jewish question. Even the minutes of these meetings have been censored. So next time we're going to talk about the Allied comeback, especially in Germany, the invasion, D Day. A magnificent trek. Or I should say it's not a trek, it's just a sprint By George Patton and the 3rd Army. Over 400 miles in about 40 days to the day near the German border, the Battle of the Bulge. And on the Japanese front, what the British were trying to do to relieve China and supply it over the Burma Road, so to speak. Free the Burma Road, protect India and the Americans. Terrible battles to take the Philippines, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Okinawa. And then finally the B29 program that ended the war along with the two atomic bomb. And that'll be it. So we'll see you next time on that.
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Unknown Speaker
Thanks so much, Victor. I haven't learned so much about World War II, especially those things that we don't often hear about. So that was exciting. Let's take a break and then come back and talk a little bit more about the current news. And Daniel Penney is on trial now. Stay with us.
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Unknown Speaker
We'Re back at the Victor Davis Hansen Show. So Victor Daniel Penney, the man who acted as a good Samaritan trying to prevent a guy from, from killing other people on as he was threatening to do on a subway. And the young man that he restrained died. And now they're putting him on this big show trial. And I was wondering what your thinking, your thoughts were on that.
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Victor Davis Hansen
Well, if there had been a homeless white person with 42 or 43 prior arrests, many of them for violent offenses, and he was on a subway and he was screaming and yelling and threatening to kill people, and a black Marine veteran came up behind him and said, don't worry, and restrained him. And then two people helped that person. But in the process, maybe because the person was on drugs, if he is, we wait for the toxology report or maybe the ill health that accrues from being homeless, whatever, then he died. After he, I think he died, he let him go and then he died. He didn't kill him with the chokehold.
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Unknown Speaker
That's right.
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Victor Davis Hansen
He maybe have choked him and had led to some of the problems that killed him. Do you think they would prosecute, Alvin Bragg would prosecute that person? I don't. I don't. I think he would be a hero. I say that because New York State law has a statute and it's, it's specifically designed for people who harass people on the subway. And it's kind of dubbed the Good Samaritan statute. And it basically says if somebody is attacking people or threatening them on the subway, you have a right to defend yourself and to step forward for the public good. And the benefit of the doubt will be on the person that tries to protect people from serious and legitimate threats. So he knows that statute. But just as in the case of the Trump campaign, violations where he, he just abused the law and distorted, he's distorting this, too, for rank political advantage. I just think that he and Letitia James and Fannie Willis, all of those people who are full of racial hatred, Trump hatred and contrary to the spirit of the civil rights movement and they're all incompetent. I don't mean that just in a blanket generic sense. I mean, Letitia James campaigned on getting Donald Trump. You cannot have a prosecutor running for office as attorney general to say a priori, I'm going to go in there and I'm going to get this person that's the person I'll find the crime you get. That's the person in Berea fashion. And Fannie Willis, you can't hire your boyfriend at an above market fee and then go on a junket with him and then send him to the White House and then bill the US Government for consultation. Does anybody think that Nathan Wade had expertise to offer the federal DOJ and then have them lie about it under, oh, I can't remember. And then we have Alvin Bragg, who took a federal statute that was in the jurisdiction of the doj, and they said, there's no campaign violation here. And he then said, well, I'm going to use that federal violation that you think didn't occur and I'm going to turn it into a state offense because he didn't. And nobody in their right mind thought that that was possible except a New York jury. So I think everybody's tired of all this. They're tired of the acrimony, they're tired of the dei, they're tired of the racialism on every. We just want to go back. This is what getting back to Matthew Iglesias, he kind of said what I've been writing about, that we should look at ourselves, our race, our superficial appearance, our gender, our sex as incidental in comparison to our essential humanity and shared humanity. Shared humanity. And there's a good book out by John Ellis. It's an essay about encounter books. It's about 100 pages. He's a retired German professor at UC Santa Cruz. And basically the argument of it is that around 1500, with the introduction of the printing press and Transatlantic Navigation and the rise of the Protestant Reformation, there was a new effort to make a common humanity the ideal. Not that they actualized it, but that people throughout the British Empire, our people throughout Europe, were starting to see that there were commonalities. That and technology helped it with the printing press, and the west was becoming more affluent than the rest. But the point was, for all the racism and prejudice and bias, which is innate to human nature, there was this ideal that people all over the world had a shared humanity. I think he's right about that. And so we all know that you're not supposed to regress to tribalism. So as I said, when you see an Alvin Bragg or a Jory Reed, what it is is an elite group. I don't think it's representative of the African American community. I don't. And I think they feel that these gain their racial ism, gains career advancement and advantage. And who does that come from? The people who are dealing with illegal immigration in the inner city of Chicago. No, it comes from two types of people. The Obama professional DEI class and the wealthy white liberal elite that have the similar class interest and they're almost identical in their political culture outlooks. In an ironic fashion, if you're a very wealthy, wealthy, wealthy Joey Reid or you're a very powerful Alvin Bragg, your white counterpart, your white anchor, or your white prosecutor who's a Soros back prosecutor, you're actually the same thing. They're just using the race thing. They don't really believe it. What they really want to do is get the prestige and power of their white counterpart parts and vice versa. And so it's just a little squabbling between these groups at the top, but they don't really care about the people in the inner city. And if you're an African American in Chicago and you say, listen, they're across the street, there's 50 people in this hotel floor and they're members of the cartel and they're endangering my kids life, they say, yeah, you have false consciousness, you don't really know what your interest is. You're a racist. I can't believe that you're falling for this MAGA racism. That's not. That was what the election was about.
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah.
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Victor Davis Hansen
About stopping that.
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah. Let's hope that it does stop in the future. I'm not sure I can trust our leadership on the left to self reflect, I guess. Well, there was another incident this week and it was that Trump went to the Congress, Congress and then he went to Joe Biden's house, the White House to just talk about things, I guess, and. But Melania didn't show up with him and she said she's getting more assertive and I kind of like this. That she didn't go. Yeah, she didn't go because she thought that Jill Biden's comments showed a lack of concern about the assassination, that it wasn't genuine and it seemed very insincere.
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Victor Davis Hansen
And the raid on Mar A Lago that went through her underwear drawer.
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah, everybody's been talking about that too. But I think that maybe she was a little offended about the.
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Victor Davis Hansen
If I could psychoanalyze, which I don't usually do because I'm incompetent in that field, but here it goes. I think as she looked at Donald Trump the last years, she was getting alienated from him because the more he ran, but in the last nine years he's been in the public eye. So they had the p u s s y grab them. Remember TV with what was his name? Billy Bush.
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah.
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Victor Davis Hansen
The 2016 campaign that made Trump look.
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Unknown Speaker
Very vulgar when he was in talking to a guy in the, I guess the trailer that they had for going.
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Victor Davis Hansen
Around and he said it was just locker room talk. And then they had the Eugene Carroll farcical suit and then they had the Stormy Daniels. I think she thought she was being humiliated. And these tawdry details came out about his phallic size. She just said, well, they're probably just doing it for political reasons, but he gave them the ammunition. I'm done and I'm just going to. She was distant. She wasn't on the path. And then as she started to digest all this, she started to see that the way they treated him, they were treating her. So she was a wonderful first lady. She wasn't even on the COVID of Vogue, which every first lady is on. They demonized her. They said she couldn't speak English. They said she had terrible. Remember her red Christmas decorations, said they were tawdry. And then the Mar a Lago laid. They went into her private corner, reporters, et cetera. And then I think she's come to. And then they were running all the nude pictures when she was a model. They had pieces when she was semi nude kissing other women or something. And basically, by the way, Putin ran those too recently. And then she just defended herself in her memoir and said, I don't have anything to apologize for. So I think now she's at the point where she's relooking at Donald Trump and re looking at first lady. Not that she's going to be happy, married again and all that stuff, but I think she's going to be a lot more empathetic to Trump because it's happened to her. And most of the charges against him were during his randy earlier days, but no one has ever made the accusations he did anything wrong while he was president, unlike Bill Clinton.
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah.
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Victor Davis Hansen
So I think there's some good signs there that she'll be prominent again as a First lady.
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah. And I bet you I'm going to make a bet with you, Victor, that she's going to be on the COVID of Vogue and the other. I bet those magazines are going to turn around.
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Victor Davis Hansen
That's why the left, remember, is ideological, but it's also greedy and materialistic and it's insecure. So my experience with it is they're very cowardly. And once they feel that the majority of people where the people and the power and the influence of the Money is. They flip. They really do. I mean, not that there's some that don't, but yes, I agree with that. If Donald Trump can be successful and these people he's appointing, they all have one thing in common. This ain't going to be 2016, 17. We know these people. We flipped this other side of this one eye Jack. We've seen Mueller and we've seen Andrew Weissman and we've seen what Anthony Blinken did with the 51 authorities and Jake Sullivan with the bang ping and we've seen Jack Smith. We know these people backwards and forwards and what they're capable and what they'll try. Two impeachments, all that. And we're not going to let them do it. So we're going to go in here, we're not going to be revenge, but we're going to. We understand they think they're in a war with us. So I think it's going to be a lot better for Trump and he's going to be prepared for it. And I think they may not win. And I think if they don't win, they're going to come over. They did that with Reagan. They hated Reagan. And they hated Reagan. And they hated Reagan. And then he got elected in the landslide and they tried to do Iran Contra and impeach him and all that. It didn't work. And then they elected George W. H.W. bush for 12 year Regnum and then they were, they named National Airport, Reagan Airport. They would have never got that through without Democratic support.
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah.
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Victor Davis Hansen
So that's, you know, I think that Trump has a chance of being very successful. And if he does, they'll be quiet for a while.
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah. And they'll celebrate the beauty of Melania Trump, which she is the most, probably the most beautiful woman in the world, or at least is up there contending for it.
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Victor Davis Hansen
Then we had the Massachusetts congressperson who said, you know, one of the reasons we lost, we were fixated on transgenderism and I have two daughters. I don't want them being clobbered by a biological male. He used the word biological male. You'd have to apologize. We have interns at Tufts University and we're not going to send them anymore. And he said, nah, I don't care. I'm not going to apologize. I'm a Democrat. That's what Democrats. The new Democrat. You're the old Democrat, I'm the new one. Sorry. And then the president of Tufts said, well, I think about it, and we don't want to be modern partisan. So of course, they just, they didn't speak in my name. We'll still have interns going to congressmen. So, yeah, they get, they make the necessary adjustments.
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah, you always say that. But these academic turncoats, I just hope more of them get fired than are allowed to do a little turncoat act.
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Victor Davis Hansen
Like, well, they have tenure. So.
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Unknown Speaker
I know, it's tough, huh?
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Victor Davis Hansen
It's. They're. But I think if you saw that speech, that little preliminary speech about the education that was very much ignored. That was a blockbuster speech that Trump gave.
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah.
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Victor Davis Hansen
Where he said he was going to attack endowments and he was going to cut off money to federal aid for people who did not allow free speech and the Bill of Rights and due process, and he was going to take a hard look at any, the Department of Education and all these grants. So he's basically saying, if I could put it in the context of where I work, hey, Stanford University, you've got almost a 40 billion dollar endowment and, you know, at 8%, 3 over 3 billion in income and it's all tax free. Predicated on the idea that you're nonpartisan and yet you've got a BLM antifa. All these BLM slogan over your library and you let Hamas camp out for what, four months and spew hatred and you had a lecturer who told the Jews to go on one side and you ransacked the president's office and you defaced historic sandstone columns and you were, according to your own internal investigations, abjectly and overtly Semitic. I just don't think you're nonpartisan. And by the way, why should the federal government give you a discount when you have 16,000 graduate and undergraduates? And you have 16,000, but you have 15,000 people classified as staff or administrative? So does every student need one counterpart that's not teaching or doing research or scholarship? I don't think so. So basically, we, the taxpayers, are paying for you while you tell everybody you're private and you can do whatever you want if you want to do whatever you want, go the Hillsdale route. Hillsdale is honest, true to its beliefs. It says, we don't trust the federal government to come in and tell us what to do. Therefore, we are not taking one dime. And then the federal government under Obama said, well, we're going to fix you. Because how about all these, you like the military and you like all these people in the GI Bill, and that's a federal money. And Hills Hill said, well, talking about taking direct money, I mean, you would actually rob a veteran of his support because he went to Hillsdale. Oh, yes, we would. Then Hillsdale said, I think, go ahead. Then you're going to cut off federal support to your own veterans, and we'll support them. And they had a fundraising drive. That's a wonderful model.
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Unknown Speaker
Awesome. Yes. That's exciting.
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Victor Davis Hansen
Yeah. I think everybody should adopt it and just get the federal government out of the tax exempt business. If they're nonpartisan, if they're partisan, and I think Stanford could try to do what Hillsdale did. They could just say, you know what? We're not going to take. I don't know what it is. It's $600 million in federal funds of various sorts. Research grants for particular think tanks, centers, you know, etc. Etc. Just stop it.
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah.
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Victor Davis Hansen
And we'll see what happens.
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Unknown Speaker
Well, Victor, we're on a hard break, so we're gonna have to go. But I did want to invite your listeners to listen to yours and Jack Fowler's podcast this week. They were super podcasts. So everybody, everybody please join Victor and Jack, and if you've got a few more moments today that I highly advise the Tuesday and Thursday podc. Thanks, everybody. And thank you, Victor.
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Victor Davis Hansen
Thank you, everybody, Much appreciate it.
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Unknown Speaker
This is Sammy Wink and Victor Davis Hansen, and we're signing off.