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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

We're going to just say, you know what, this was the worst disaster of your tenure, Putin. You're unpopular. You've got over a million dead, wounded. But you can go give the bone to the Russian people and say you've got to institutionalize Putin. Crimea and the Donbass, which we were never going to get back anyway.

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

We're going to just say, you know what, this was the worst disaster of your tenure, Putin. You're unpopular. You've got over a million dead, wounded. But you can go give the bone to the Russian people and say you've got to institutionalize Putin. Crimea and the Donbass, which we were never going to get back anyway.

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

We're going to just say, you know what, this was the worst disaster of your tenure, Putin. You're unpopular. You've got over a million dead, wounded. But you can go give the bone to the Russian people and say you've got to institutionalize Putin. Crimea and the Donbass, which we were never going to get back anyway.

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

We're going to have a DMZ along the February 24th embarkation point, just like South Korea, North Korea. You go back on your side of it. We promise it will not be in NATO and it's armed now to the teeth. So if you ever try it again, you're going to have another million cash. That's what we can see. And finally, as I said earlier, we want to break up the Chinese, Russia, Iran, North Korea nexus.

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

We're going to have a DMZ along the February 24th embarkation point, just like South Korea, North Korea. You go back on your side of it. We promise it will not be in NATO and it's armed now to the teeth. So if you ever try it again, you're going to have another million cash. That's what we can see. And finally, as I said earlier, we want to break up the Chinese, Russia, Iran, North Korea nexus.

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

We're going to have a DMZ along the February 24th embarkation point, just like South Korea, North Korea. You go back on your side of it. We promise it will not be in NATO and it's armed now to the teeth. So if you ever try it again, you're going to have another million cash. That's what we can see. And finally, as I said earlier, we want to break up the Chinese, Russia, Iran, North Korea nexus.

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

That's very easy. Nobody ever did that under Obama. Nobody ever did that under Biden. And that's what Trump is. I got from a kind of a well-known person wrote me and said, you know, basically, he was basically saying, how dare you not criticize Trump? He's selling out. And I guess what he meant by selling out is that Trump and Hegseth

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

That's very easy. Nobody ever did that under Obama. Nobody ever did that under Biden. And that's what Trump is. I got from a kind of a well-known person wrote me and said, you know, basically, he was basically saying, how dare you not criticize Trump? He's selling out. And I guess what he meant by selling out is that Trump and Hegseth

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

That's very easy. Nobody ever did that under Obama. Nobody ever did that under Biden. And that's what Trump is. I got from a kind of a well-known person wrote me and said, you know, basically, he was basically saying, how dare you not criticize Trump? He's selling out. And I guess what he meant by selling out is that Trump and Hegseth

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

have announced that we're not going to get back the Donbass and Crimea and we're not going to put them in NATO. And I'm saying to myself, so you're going to sit across, you're Putin and I'm Zelensky, you better watch out or we're going to go into NATO. Putin says, you don't want to be in NATO, and NATO doesn't want you to be in NATO. You know what's going to happen.

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

have announced that we're not going to get back the Donbass and Crimea and we're not going to put them in NATO. And I'm saying to myself, so you're going to sit across, you're Putin and I'm Zelensky, you better watch out or we're going to go into NATO. Putin says, you don't want to be in NATO, and NATO doesn't want you to be in NATO. You know what's going to happen.

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

have announced that we're not going to get back the Donbass and Crimea and we're not going to put them in NATO. And I'm saying to myself, so you're going to sit across, you're Putin and I'm Zelensky, you better watch out or we're going to go into NATO. Putin says, you don't want to be in NATO, and NATO doesn't want you to be in NATO. You know what's going to happen.

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

You'd have to fight me right now, and none of those countries would fight me. So just drop the pretense. We're going to get back to Donbass. You're not going to get back to Donbass and Crimea. You can't even get me back to where I was. Come on, get real. I'm not going to use that as a negotiating point. That's where we are. So... I don't know.

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

You'd have to fight me right now, and none of those countries would fight me. So just drop the pretense. We're going to get back to Donbass. You're not going to get back to Donbass and Crimea. You can't even get me back to where I was. Come on, get real. I'm not going to use that as a negotiating point. That's where we are. So... I don't know.

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

You'd have to fight me right now, and none of those countries would fight me. So just drop the pretense. We're going to get back to Donbass. You're not going to get back to Donbass and Crimea. You can't even get me back to where I was. Come on, get real. I'm not going to use that as a negotiating point. That's where we are. So... I don't know.

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

It's just amazing to me how the left, who talk endlessly about Palestinian collateral damage and all of the excesses of the Netanyahu dictatorship and all of this stuff, and coming out of Vietnam, all of a sudden, You say to them, well, Mr. Zelensky has canceled all the opposition parties, the press, habeas corpus, and scheduled elections. He's a dictator. Oh, no, no, no.

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

It's just amazing to me how the left, who talk endlessly about Palestinian collateral damage and all of the excesses of the Netanyahu dictatorship and all of this stuff, and coming out of Vietnam, all of a sudden, You say to them, well, Mr. Zelensky has canceled all the opposition parties, the press, habeas corpus, and scheduled elections. He's a dictator. Oh, no, no, no.

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

It's just amazing to me how the left, who talk endlessly about Palestinian collateral damage and all of the excesses of the Netanyahu dictatorship and all of this stuff, and coming out of Vietnam, all of a sudden, You say to them, well, Mr. Zelensky has canceled all the opposition parties, the press, habeas corpus, and scheduled elections. He's a dictator. Oh, no, no, no.

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

There's a lot of collateral damage with these drones and missiles that they fire back, just like the rush. Oh, no, the collateral damage doesn't matter. Don't you think we should have a ceasefire like we had imposed on Mr. Netanyahu? Oh, no, that would destroy the momentum. They have a complete set of different rules that they apply to Israel. Cease fire.

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

There's a lot of collateral damage with these drones and missiles that they fire back, just like the rush. Oh, no, the collateral damage doesn't matter. Don't you think we should have a ceasefire like we had imposed on Mr. Netanyahu? Oh, no, that would destroy the momentum. They have a complete set of different rules that they apply to Israel. Cease fire.