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Victor Davis Hanson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

that all of these people are dying. I haven't heard any of that. No emphases at all. So the strategy seems to be, let's not worry about Ukraine. Let's give it enough so it doesn't lose. And it teaches Putin a lesson. And let's bleed Putin white so he never tries to do this again. We didn't get him on Russian collusion, disinformation, the alpha ping caper.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

that all of these people are dying. I haven't heard any of that. No emphases at all. So the strategy seems to be, let's not worry about Ukraine. Let's give it enough so it doesn't lose. And it teaches Putin a lesson. And let's bleed Putin white so he never tries to do this again. We didn't get him on Russian collusion, disinformation, the alpha ping caper.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

that all of these people are dying. I haven't heard any of that. No emphases at all. So the strategy seems to be, let's not worry about Ukraine. Let's give it enough so it doesn't lose. And it teaches Putin a lesson. And let's bleed Putin white so he never tries to do this again. We didn't get him on Russian collusion, disinformation, the alpha ping caper.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

But this time, we're going to bleed Putin white. And in fact, we have. He's probably lost near a million dead, wounded and missing or captured. So that seems to be the strategy. And nobody ever asked themselves who are now criticizing Donald Trump. The Wall Street Journal never asked itself. Nobody ever says, how did we get into this mess?

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

But this time, we're going to bleed Putin white. And in fact, we have. He's probably lost near a million dead, wounded and missing or captured. So that seems to be the strategy. And nobody ever asked themselves who are now criticizing Donald Trump. The Wall Street Journal never asked itself. Nobody ever says, how did we get into this mess?

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

But this time, we're going to bleed Putin white. And in fact, we have. He's probably lost near a million dead, wounded and missing or captured. So that seems to be the strategy. And nobody ever asked themselves who are now criticizing Donald Trump. The Wall Street Journal never asked itself. Nobody ever says, how did we get into this mess?

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

We got into this mess because in 1989, Hillary went to Geneva and pushed a red jacuzzi button. And the people around here are now the fiercest critics of Donald Trump. And what did she say? She said she was going to have a reset. Translated wrong, by the way, in Russian.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

We got into this mess because in 1989, Hillary went to Geneva and pushed a red jacuzzi button. And the people around here are now the fiercest critics of Donald Trump. And what did she say? She said she was going to have a reset. Translated wrong, by the way, in Russian.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

We got into this mess because in 1989, Hillary went to Geneva and pushed a red jacuzzi button. And the people around here are now the fiercest critics of Donald Trump. And what did she say? She said she was going to have a reset. Translated wrong, by the way, in Russian.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

The whole premise was that awful George Bush who got us in Afghanistan and Iraq, that cowboy, he was okay when he looked in Putin's eyes and saw a good kindred soul, but he was so mean. He really clamped down on Russia when they went into Osatia, and he did it. That was the idea. So we're going to do the opposite. We're going to reset. And then they just appeased him. What did appeasement mean?

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

The whole premise was that awful George Bush who got us in Afghanistan and Iraq, that cowboy, he was okay when he looked in Putin's eyes and saw a good kindred soul, but he was so mean. He really clamped down on Russia when they went into Osatia, and he did it. That was the idea. So we're going to do the opposite. We're going to reset. And then they just appeased him. What did appeasement mean?

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

The whole premise was that awful George Bush who got us in Afghanistan and Iraq, that cowboy, he was okay when he looked in Putin's eyes and saw a good kindred soul, but he was so mean. He really clamped down on Russia when they went into Osatia, and he did it. That was the idea. So we're going to do the opposite. We're going to reset. And then they just appeased him. What did appeasement mean?

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

Oh, Assad has maybe WMD. Mr. Lavkov, can you and the Russians please go back into Syria after 40 years of hiatus? We don't want to deal with Syria and Assad and all this and WMD and killing. Just come on back into the Middle East as our buddy. And that's what John Kerry did. And then it was, oh, you have an asymmetrical treaty? Oh, all right. And then we had an ambassador.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

Oh, Assad has maybe WMD. Mr. Lavkov, can you and the Russians please go back into Syria after 40 years of hiatus? We don't want to deal with Syria and Assad and all this and WMD and killing. Just come on back into the Middle East as our buddy. And that's what John Kerry did. And then it was, oh, you have an asymmetrical treaty? Oh, all right. And then we had an ambassador.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

Oh, Assad has maybe WMD. Mr. Lavkov, can you and the Russians please go back into Syria after 40 years of hiatus? We don't want to deal with Syria and Assad and all this and WMD and killing. Just come on back into the Middle East as our buddy. And that's what John Kerry did. And then it was, oh, you have an asymmetrical treaty? Oh, all right. And then we had an ambassador.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

I won't mention his name. He's a colleague of mine at the Hoover. But then at the same time, we were resetting. We said, and you know, Vladimir Putin, we really do know you deep, deep, deep, deep inside. We'd like to finish the interrupted vision of Yeltsin that you're going to become an EU like Russia. And you don't object at all that Ukraine now is moving. And then you know what he said?

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

I won't mention his name. He's a colleague of mine at the Hoover. But then at the same time, we were resetting. We said, and you know, Vladimir Putin, we really do know you deep, deep, deep, deep inside. We'd like to finish the interrupted vision of Yeltsin that you're going to become an EU like Russia. And you don't object at all that Ukraine now is moving. And then you know what he said?

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

I won't mention his name. He's a colleague of mine at the Hoover. But then at the same time, we were resetting. We said, and you know, Vladimir Putin, we really do know you deep, deep, deep, deep inside. We'd like to finish the interrupted vision of Yeltsin that you're going to become an EU like Russia. And you don't object at all that Ukraine now is moving. And then you know what he said?

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

He said, screw you. He didn't just say, screw you. He said, I don't want any of your Western. Do you think we've ever had a Western elected official in Russia? Do you know anything about the czars, the commies, or us? We don't like that idea. We're dictators. So we don't want and we do not want your social, cultural, you know, LGBT, all that stuff.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

He said, screw you. He didn't just say, screw you. He said, I don't want any of your Western. Do you think we've ever had a Western elected official in Russia? Do you know anything about the czars, the commies, or us? We don't like that idea. We're dictators. So we don't want and we do not want your social, cultural, you know, LGBT, all that stuff.