Victor Davis Hanson

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The Victor Davis Hanson Show · Overexposed: The Truth and Troubles of Left Politics · 25 Feb 2025 podcast

You say you're not going to get back Donbass and you're not going to get Crimea and you're not going to put... Well, don't tell Putin that because now you're giving away the... No, no, no, no. If you're playing poker... And you're bluffing and you're going like this. Well, I've got a really good hand. They know you're bluffing.

They know that Europe doesn't want them in NATO because they don't want to go have to rescue them by statute. We don't want them in NATO. Russia doesn't want them in NATO. And I don't think Ukraine wants them in NATO. deep down inside. And more importantly, nobody believes they have the military ability to take back Crimea and take back Donbass.

And nobody wants to give them that, you know, a half, I don't know how many billions it would be, a half a trillion dollars in equipment to try and another 300,000 dead to try to take those things. But, and here's what I think J.D. Vance and Neil Ferguson and Donald Trump would all agree on. They can cut a deal.

They can go to Putin and say, okay, you get to go tell the Russians that you institutionalized the occupation, the theft of Crimea and Donbass. You can tell them that you caused dissension in NATO and you stopped Ukraine from taking being in NATO and that was worth, it's a disaster for Russia. And then you got the sanctions lifted. And Russia now is going to be part of the G7.

It's going to go back to the normal. And then Ukraine can say, we saved our country and we pushed them back to where they were on February 24th. And that would mean that Putin would have to withdraw 30 or 40 miles. They would make a South North Korea type DMZ. And that's the negotiation. And I think that Trump can, if he pulled that off,

And to pull that off, he's saying some crazy things, but like everything he says, whether it's Gaza or Panama. You know, I had a talk with some people this weekend, and somebody came up to me and said, I won't mention the person, but not a friend, and a couple people wrote me really nasty things. Oh, you're a Trump sellout, or you're an appeaser. Shame on you.

You've ruined your reputation for suggesting there should be a negotiation. We need to give We need to give him a lot more. We can give him a trillion. All this crap. We should have American troops and all this stupid thing. We should put him on the nuclear. No, no, no. But the fact is there can be a negotiated settlement that will stop the killing and Ukraine will have its country.

It can get its refugees back. You'll get Western investment. and it's the best armed country in NATO right now other than us, and it's got the most experienced fighters, and Putin knows that. So all we have to do is have a DMZ, U.S.

Western investment in Ukraine, get back its population, rebuild the country, and keep that army at the same size it is now and beef up NATO, and Putin will not go in again. And so that's what we're talking about. Donald Trump, but just one last thing, Jack, is that they don't understand what he says. I don't know what the word is, trolling, but he wasn't going to invade Panama, right?

But he did stop that awful agreement in which China was going to have a concession and has a lot of extra legal influence on our Panama Canal that we gave. And we had a treaty that no foreign power should usurp our primacy vis-a-vis the Panamanians. Their foreign nation's closest relationship has to be us. And they got out of that deal. He's not going to make Canada a 51st state.

What he's angry about is they had an open border. And all of a sudden, Trudeau is spending a billion dollars and putting... thousands of people to patrol the border, and more important, he's looking now like, uh-oh, they caught me with that $50 billion surplus and this asymmetrical tariffs. He wasn't going to attack Greenland or force Denmark, but he did want a concession that

China and Russia are extracting key concessions in the Arctic Circle. Greenland is a North American territory. We've had a long history with it in World War II. It's a vital piece of real estate. The Danish have agreed now to give a billion dollars in development for Greenland as colonial powers. And more importantly, the Danes now says they're going to arm up to 3% or 4% of GDP.

And that's all he wanted. That's all he wanted. So Panama, Canada, Ukraine, there's a pattern there. He tries to confuse, rattle, cause controversy, get people thinking. Same thing with the Gaza thing. And then once it all settles down, things happen. And I think there's a 50-50 chance that you'll get a negotiated settlement.

He destroyed the turns. So how did Biden, everybody, when Donald Trump said that they had not invaded on his watch, and he said that many times, he reportedly told Vladimir Putin, the following will happen if you invade Ukraine. And Putin reportedly said, you wouldn't really do that. And he said, yes, I would. But the point is, how did Biden destroy deterrence?

Number one, as Jack just pointed out, in August of 2021, he just skedaddled from Afghanistan. He left 13 Marines to die. He left contractors there. He left a billion-dollar brand-new embassy, a $300 million retrofitted embassy. Bagram Air Base and I don't know how many. The military said, oh, it wasn't 50 billion, it was just 7 or 8 or 10 billion in equipment, a military.

But if you look at all the equipment, the vehicles, it was built much more than that. And then when they kept trying to use cyber warfare against our institutions, remember Obama had said, cut it out, Vladimir. That was really effective, wasn't it? And then Biden said, if you're going to do this, Vladimir, don't hit our hospitals or schools. Take them off your target list.

And then right before the invasion, Jack, remember they asked Biden, what will you do? Because after Afghanistan, Putin is massing on the border of Belarus and Ukraine. And he said it depends on whether it's a major invasion or not. That's what he said. And then the first week when... The caravan of troops, that long column of Russian armor, was trying to take Kiev. What did Biden do?

He called up Zelensky and says, you want to ride out? I can evacuate you. Otherwise, just give up your country. So he appeased Putin. And Donald Trump has a right to be angry because not only did Ukraine... I won't even get into Mr. Vindman and the impeachment. I mentioned the op-ed, but... They created a narrative that Biden was tough on Putin. Obama was tough. Both of them appeased Putin.

And Biden, we just explained that hot mic with Obama, the reset. Donald Trump killed two to three hundred of the Wagner group. That's tricky to do. Russian in Syria. He really did. He destroyed ISIS. He killed Soleimani. He killed Baghdadi. He almost bankrupt Iran. He got us out of a missile deal with Russia. He sold offensive weapons to Ukraine. Not Obama, not Biden initially.

Biden put a hold on them. He sent them javelins, artillery, everything. And they didn't. And so in his way of thinking is, I was the one that was tough on Putin. You guys appeased him, and yet your left-wing press makes me into a puppet and an asset of Putin, and yet everything you threw at me was a lie. Russian collusion was a lie. Russian disinformation laptop was a lie.

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