Victor Davis Hanson
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220 appearances
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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Iran is despised.
The only problem Israel has is the same problem it had
after the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War later, and then same thing they had on October 7th.
They get very successful, and then they suffer a little bit of overconfidence and get lax, and they get surprised in the Yom Kippur War 50 years later to the very day they were surprised on October 7th.
I don't think they're going to do it this time.
I think they're going to realize that even though they seem invincible now, now is the time to be very vigilant and to not get overconfident.
Yeah, they have legitimacies because the people...
They voted for the regime or the power or the government that's in power, and that's not true of these other regimes.
So they don't have any really legitimate—they don't have any consensus.
So Netanyahu has a war cabinet, so he's getting all sorts of views.
Some of them are self-interested and probably nihilistic, but a lot of them give him ideas, and they thrash it out.
Same with Trump.
And the side that creates technology, and that's because of Western rationalism and freedom, freedom of dissent, freedom—
of entrepreneurialism, free market capitalism, all of that freedom creates superior technology, and it tends to evolve at a more rapid pace than the people who are parasitical on it.
I mean, Iran had all the westernized weapons it wanted, from nuclear materials to air defenses to ballistic missiles.
They can be very deadly, but if the West finally gets aroused and uses the full extent of the
The people who created the technology, they're much better at it.
So Iran can say that they had air defenses they imported and they did all of this, but they could never have created a B-2 bomber and sent it 6,000 miles away to send these 30,000 pound bombs down a hole the size of a kitchen table.
They just couldn't do it.
Thank you for having me, Ben.
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