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Victor Davis Hanson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

We don't believe that what was so hard about spending 2% of your GDP on defense. You all promised in 2014 you were going to do it. And you still got 10 or 11, 9, 10, 11 countries that won't do it. And you want to be in NATO. And then you get mad when Donald Trump bullies you. What if the United States did not meet its 2%? What would happen to you people if that happened?

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

And then they say things like, well, you've got a big base at Rammstein and you've got these 80,000 troops and we help pay for them and maybe they should go home. Promises, promises. If you don't like them, send them home. America is happy to send them home. But I was reading a pretty good sophisticated account when Europe says it's going to send troops to be peacekeepers.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

And then they say things like, well, you've got a big base at Rammstein and you've got these 80,000 troops and we help pay for them and maybe they should go home. Promises, promises. If you don't like them, send them home. America is happy to send them home. But I was reading a pretty good sophisticated account when Europe says it's going to send troops to be peacekeepers.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

And then they say things like, well, you've got a big base at Rammstein and you've got these 80,000 troops and we help pay for them and maybe they should go home. Promises, promises. If you don't like them, send them home. America is happy to send them home. But I was reading a pretty good sophisticated account when Europe says it's going to send troops to be peacekeepers.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

You hear that, Mr. Stormer? Stormer said that. They don't even have the logistical lift capacity to supply them. They couldn't do that. They depend on refueling from America. Their planes need to be refueled in wartime conditions by America. They need the C-17, C-130 lift capacity, et cetera. And that's talking about a debased form.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

You hear that, Mr. Stormer? Stormer said that. They don't even have the logistical lift capacity to supply them. They couldn't do that. They depend on refueling from America. Their planes need to be refueled in wartime conditions by America. They need the C-17, C-130 lift capacity, et cetera. And that's talking about a debased form.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

You hear that, Mr. Stormer? Stormer said that. They don't even have the logistical lift capacity to supply them. They couldn't do that. They depend on refueling from America. Their planes need to be refueled in wartime conditions by America. They need the C-17, C-130 lift capacity, et cetera. And that's talking about a debased form.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

We're not in the great shape that we were militarily, but still at this low level, we're heads and shoulders above the whole European continent.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

We're not in the great shape that we were militarily, but still at this low level, we're heads and shoulders above the whole European continent.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

We're not in the great shape that we were militarily, but still at this low level, we're heads and shoulders above the whole European continent.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

Exactly. Promise is made, promise is kept. And remember what happened with energy. He vastly increased by two or three million barrels. Biden came in and he canceled Keystone. He canceled new liquid natural gas terminals. He did it at the end of his term. He put ANWR off. He started lecturing fracking. He made an EV mandate. And then the 2008

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

Exactly. Promise is made, promise is kept. And remember what happened with energy. He vastly increased by two or three million barrels. Biden came in and he canceled Keystone. He canceled new liquid natural gas terminals. He did it at the end of his term. He put ANWR off. He started lecturing fracking. He made an EV mandate. And then the 2008

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

Exactly. Promise is made, promise is kept. And remember what happened with energy. He vastly increased by two or three million barrels. Biden came in and he canceled Keystone. He canceled new liquid natural gas terminals. He did it at the end of his term. He put ANWR off. He started lecturing fracking. He made an EV mandate. And then the 2008

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

22 midterms came up and prices hit the ceiling during the inflationary period. Here in California, it was in the San Joaquin Valley, I paid $5.50 a gallon. And then suddenly, he started draining the petroleum reserve to get reelected. And he went from about 90% all the way down to 50%. And then they came to Joe Biden and said, you are not going to get elected. So here's what you're going to do.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

22 midterms came up and prices hit the ceiling during the inflationary period. Here in California, it was in the San Joaquin Valley, I paid $5.50 a gallon. And then suddenly, he started draining the petroleum reserve to get reelected. And he went from about 90% all the way down to 50%. And then they came to Joe Biden and said, you are not going to get elected. So here's what you're going to do.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

22 midterms came up and prices hit the ceiling during the inflationary period. Here in California, it was in the San Joaquin Valley, I paid $5.50 a gallon. And then suddenly, he started draining the petroleum reserve to get reelected. And he went from about 90% all the way down to 50%. And then they came to Joe Biden and said, you are not going to get elected. So here's what you're going to do.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

You're going to tell everybody that you're a new green dealer and you're you're going to talk up EVs, but you're going to drill. So they went back and they started to drill like Trump and they got it back to Trump and even a little above. Now, Trump comes in and says. that wasn't what I really wanted. That's where I was before I lost that election.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

You're going to tell everybody that you're a new green dealer and you're you're going to talk up EVs, but you're going to drill. So they went back and they started to drill like Trump and they got it back to Trump and even a little above. Now, Trump comes in and says. that wasn't what I really wanted. That's where I was before I lost that election.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

You're going to tell everybody that you're a new green dealer and you're you're going to talk up EVs, but you're going to drill. So they went back and they started to drill like Trump and they got it back to Trump and even a little above. Now, Trump comes in and says. that wasn't what I really wanted. That's where I was before I lost that election.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

And now I'm going to go back to what I had originally planned. And that's 20 million, 22. He's going to go full blast. The only problem he's going to have is he's going to have to produce the, he's going to have to convince these oil companies who have very sophisticated measuring, uh,