I really felt my coworkers would turn me in during Covid..if they could get promoted..if turning me in meant that my income (livelihood would end) or if I would go to jail or execution it would make no difference..as a culture we have decayed much more than we know..
It's always been like that. How many protestant grassed up their catholic neighbours to certain death for some trivial reason? Then we had the, "withhold medical treatment for lockdown opponents" and other attempts to dehumanise us.
I don’t think we’ve decayed, I think we underestimated our capacity for destruction. We have this unique (melting pot) society that hasn’t ever existed and we take it for granted because we’ve never known anything different. We only exist because we agree on a common morality which requires active maintenance. For the last few decades a segment of our population has been attacking our culture, trying to divide our united people into tribal groups with the oppressor vs oppressed narrative and we have allowed them do so unopposed. If we don’t stop them we only have ourselves to blame for the barbarism that follows.
It’s pretty simple actually…you either believe in a communist platform (liberal), or a traditional America platform (Conservative). History has proven which one is more favorable
@@jmanjman3916 There's a saying, "make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler". I think your comment goes pretty far into the oversimplification
Brilliant Man! What a note to finish to finish on! To isolate the vulnerability of the Present as temporal, and impossible to repeat, doesn't alleviate... but does add a perspective outside. I don't know much about History, and especially the history of War. The American position contemporarily given a measure, today, was great. An introduction to Victor Davis Hanson appreciated too. And great performance by your cat, he/she (Pinns?) knows the score to be sure. Thanks for the work that goes into this podcast. It's very very very cool. James.
Never forget Zelenskyy’s Ukraine 🇺🇦 is a mouth piece for the USA 🇺🇸 government and the USA 🇺🇸 government is controlled by AIPAC 🇮🇱 financiers so it’s not Zelenskyy’s peace proposals it’s AIPAC 🇮🇱 financiers peace proposals. This is not surprising though as AIPAC financiers already own UKRAINE 🇺🇦. I wonder what will happen when the brave soldiers of Ukraine 🇺🇦 realise they have been sold to AIPAC 🇮🇱 financiers by Zelensky and his henchmen who don’t believe “Christ is lord” and have closed down their churches and killed and imprisoned their clergy? Could be a little problematic I would suggest for the unelected president of Ukraine 🇺🇦 and his henchmen?
You are right and I can listen to Victor Davis Hanson all day!! I went to college and I got my grad degree in history and then I went ahead and went onto law school. The one thing I knew even before studying history because I loved it from the age of eight on when my dad ordered these World War II, Tom life books and it was a series of four that came in the mail and I grabbed the first. I took it to my room and started reading it, and it was on the second one came in the mail a month or two later, my dad was asking about the first volume. Hmmm? Oh I had it and when I told him I had been reading it and he wasn’t angry at all, but rather shocked that the girl that was almost 9, and played soccer would be interested in that, but he knew I was a student and academic. I loved history and I did not take western civilization in grade school, but I took it in college.. the one thing history even going back to the American revolution early European history and Anglo-Saxon history ,it shows there’s nothing new under the sun and history repeats itself. In today’s world Communist, China is playing chess. One other countries are playing checkers and the CCP is pure evil and I don’t want a America a United States, which is my country to get involved in a China disaster over between China and Taiwan. However, I’m just perplexed as to why China got this land in 1945 after World War II and even after the communist revolution in 1949, Mao had no desire to go into Taijuan, which was where the prior government fled. I think he believed he had enough to take care of there, and that big country, and they were on a mass murder spree and murdering all the landlords & landowners..However, MANY of those peasants and other individuals who helped him with the revolution, which they normally would not have won if not for Soviet help. Do USA and didn’t help the democratic government and China but they were so wiped out after Japan invaded them in the 1930s that they were weak and during that time does CCP just hid up in the mountains and work hours when they really should’ve been fighting for their land as well. That’s why I see the CCP as being evil, conniving, and they cheat, and they still so much we could pay off our national deficit with all the intellectual property China has stolen from us. One day at & pretty sure that the USA will cash in because every airplane or ship China has made with technology. They stole from the USA or another western country is not made the same.. even trying to build it to the best of their standards, which would be better than total crap to us here in America, or something that falls apart, there lady is not equipped to go into deep waters, even though they’ve been working on it, but their ships look like yachts and appear to be made out of fiberglass more than steel unless that’s just the way they look. China hasn’t had anything to do with Taiwan in so long and I don’t want to see the culture on that island destroyed and at the same time I think as an American in the USA that we shouldn’t get into this because it’s not worth World War III, and if World War III does happen., & the allies are victorious. We will gladly give Taiwan and the people that land back- God willing they live. Try not going into Taijuan would be much much worse than Hong Kong and Hong Kong used to be a colony of Britain’s and when Britttany moved out some years later, the Chinese just went rolling in and they were really furious that the people in Hong Kong we’re waiting American flags in those people probably got killed.. The Chinese are playing biological warfare with illnesses and chemical warfare with a compound to make fentanyl with the Mexican cartels. It was Great Britain and not the United States that sold opiate and opioid to the Chinese people that calls in the generation of shame, etc.. china just wants what we have but at the same time they’re also drooling over what’s going on in Russia because Russia is right next-door. China plays, and that’s the way Axis Powers always fight, and that is that they will stab each other in the back when they can. Turner will use anybody and everybody didn’t feed America and then they’ll go into the jugular just to have Russia because the United States and Russia have every natural resources and we really are not dependent on anybody else in the world. We trade because we do but it’s not something we have to do and China does not have the resources like the vast amounts of fertile soil & water amongst other things that Russia and the United States has. I’m thankful to live in the USA because you can go to state or two beside you and it looks like a different country. Russia is awful because during World War II, the Germans, and just the German non-Nazi third Reich soldiers said when it was warm the bugs were atrocious, were nasty, and then when it was colder, it was just absolutely freezing, and the climate, the train, and the bugs in the freezing cold were miserable there. They could not imagine German people wanting to even spread out there and LIVE like in other areas in Western Europe like the Baltics, Poland, Ukraine but probably just farm there. There’s nothing new under the sun.. here in the USA, we just have a very corrupt government and their inefficient, so worried and controlling re: social issues. Unlike World War II, when Japan attacked pearl harbor., one of the senior military brass in Japan, said there was absolutely no way you could invade America and even think about winning because behind every newspaper there was a weapon! 😂😂 true!! it’s my second amendment people will keep them and not let go of them, and even though we know there are nukes and intercontinental blisters, it doesn’t matter because at least we’ll have something to protect ourselves with. Americans in the USA or some crazy people and I don’t know sometimes if they are crazy and dangerous, which makes them good heroes, but kind of bad guy heroes. (You have to see a video on RUclips of the fat electrician and he’s talking about Jake McNasty, but his name was Jake McNeese! 😂 it is a very entertaining story, and especially with the fat electrician telling it. It is all true, and this guy should’ve been kicked out and he was in the stockade more than out of it, but he, and a couple of other guys very similar to him, were excellent for what they were about to do in Nazi occupied Europe, and they wanted to jump out of airplanes and go blow up things behind enemy lines!! they were perfect for that kind of work. Jake lived a long life, but it was him being born around 1919 and living through the great depression and having to go hunt and fish to survive with his mom and dad with eight other siblings that made him that way but he was a hard worker.! he worked with the fire department, and he didn’t actually have to go in the World War II, and he didn’t have to get drafted, but he chose to enlist. During the American revolution, there was a Scotsman, who moved to America when it was still a British colony, and his name was John Paul Jones in the father of the US Navy, and that man race, all kinds of hell, with his buddies destroying arsenals over in Britain and one in Scotland and then they went to France to fully but they ship was broken so they had to get another one to get back to America. And the British were sick of the Americans because they were a pain in the butt and they had to call the British way back to Great Britain because of this guy and his 50-100 sailors. Now I will get American Western Europe and we have a younger group that is extremely weak and they wine and throw temper tantrums all the time.. Bill Maher said on HBO that he thought they were trying to be noble but they were really being assholes!😂 those are the first people to go running behind and crying for Mommy when somebody starts firing a guns
Lies lies lies, total AIPAC 🇮🇱 propaganda, totally evil personified, good to know the USA 🇺🇸 is under total control of a foreign country through AIPAC 🇮🇱 financiers. “ Christ is obviously not lord” in the USA 🇺🇸 AIPAC 🇮🇱 is.
The kid's simply learning from the master. Why are you such a prick about it? Anyone who can keep up with VDH has got to be an intelligent student of his.
Strange how this channel has never crossed my feed and it's exactly the content I'm interested in. Guess the algorithm only works properly for lefties.
It just came across my feed too and I'm a right-y. I am a fan of VDH though! Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat the stupid mistakes made in the past.
@@lauralintonmacfarlane5264 The cyclic history theory is beyond simplistic and boring, Any fool know wars and economic fluctuations will repeat at various intervals.
@lauralintonmacfarlane5264: When I watched his interview this AM with a different interviewer I was already drawing parallels to what's happening in the world as we speak.
VDH's comment that no one knows what's happening while it's happening sounds correct. No one in Britain in 1939 would have forseen the speed of her collapse after the events of WW2.
@@goodyeoman4534 I'm not sure anyone would have forseen it becoming bankrupt. Rationing lasted till 1954, the last country of all those involved in the war. I suppose the collapse of the four empires after WW1 was even more surprising. Reading the Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark left me thinking that none of those people had a clue as to what was about to happen.
@@scottgraham1143 I think some would have foreseen it, or at least raised it as a remote possibility. Even back then, historians knew how to make a parallel to the fall of Rome.
I'm 70 years old and reside in Australia. I have been a student of history for 60 of those years, and from 1972, duly kept abreast of politics, both domestically and increasingly with foreign nuances. I have travelled to 51 countries, and been to and through the US, on 14 occasions. And whilst I don't pretend, let alone purport to be an oracle on anything, I can say I'm well versed on the machinations of VDH. Alas, the warnings that he makes about a plethora of things is skin to the biblical adage of, casting pearls before swine. Regrettably, the Western world, ostensibly with the US, Britain, and Canada are way past the point of salvation. This is due to a few coherences, but most significantly so due to mass non- discriminatory immigration programs, which have radically transmogrified their social fabrics. And this is diabolically proven with the hundreds of thousands of Muslims who have staged continuous pro-Palestinian rallies in England since late October. Meanwhile, the US, is embroiled in serious conflicts in Ukraine, and Gaza/Israel. As for defending Taiwan from Chinese aggression is as likely as catching bubbles that a child might blow.
Unfortunately, students today are being told they are bad, Americans are bad. I am one of the college instructors that does not teach that. With the comfort the students live in and the oceans on each side cushioning them, the students have no idea of what the real world is outside of their vision is like and what we need to do to prepare for adversity. Preparation is not aggression. They don't understand this difference of thought.
This was a fascinating conversation, if I’m not mistaken the first time I was really intrigued by Thebes was in the original The Mummy 😂 I remember being very intrigued by the dialogue in the movie lmao
Submarines, Victor, submarines! We've already heard from CINCPAC that in the event of an attempted amphibious invasion of Taiwan that because of China's potent ship and shore based anti-ship missile forces, US carrier battle groups will have to be kept approximately 1,000 nautical miles east of the battle area. This dictates that all US and Allied tactical air assets will have to sortie from air bases ashore in Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, Saipan, and Guam. The good news, if there is any, is that US and Allied fast attack submarines will be the decisive key to thwarting a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. First, subs will have laid potent anti-ship minefields in strategic grids guarding all avenues of approach to the severely limited suitable landing sites on Taiwan's coasts. Many of those mines may already be in place. Modern anti-ship mines can lie dormant for years waiting to be remotely armed when needed. It would take an enormous mine sweeping effort by a highly specialized fleet of vessels that the Chinese don't have, to clear a wide enough path for an amphibious flotilla to pass through en route to Taiwan. Secondly, the subs can easily torpedo and destroy most of a Chinese invasion force before it even reaches the open waters of the Strait, and then pick off any survivors at will. Detractors will point out that the Taiwan Strait is generally rather shallow for attack submarine operations, but attack boat sailors have told me that is not true. It would be more hazardous to operate offensively there, but not impossible. Thirdly, amphibious assaults are notoriously difficult to execute. The premier and currently only national practitioner of amphibious warfare is the US Marine Corps-US Navy team which has had a hundred years since the British debacle at Gallipoli to perfect the highly specialized shipping, weapons, and tactics to successfully perform an amphibious landing on a heavily defended island like Taiwan. The Chinese don't have the required specialized shipping they would need and aren't currently trying to build it. It's extremely unlikely that they could develop this capability in a matter of a couple decades, let alone the three to five years that is being talked about by US military planners. Right now the PRC's sham plan for transporting troops and combat vehicles to Taiwan is to use intercoastal commercial ferries which is risable to anyone who knows anything about amphibious warfare. In my opinion, the PRC is using its open threat of invading Taiwan as a political tool to intimidate the Taiwanese government into agreeing to peaceful unification with the mainland. I'm afraid that you and a lot of other foreign policy experts have been taken in by this Chinese ploy. US Naval War College Graduate and elective Submarine Warfare course.
Your analysis is better than his. My livelihood is deeply dependent on the situation in the pacific. Analysis predicts that American subs will be able to sink two to three large amphibious warships every 2.5 days and each sub will have a 20% chance of being sunk itself in these 2.5 days.
@@bathhatingcat8626 You don't say whose "analysis" predicts the loss of )friendly subs at one every 2.5 days. I totally scoff at that. First, amphibious ships would have to travel with other ships in a convoy protected by destroyers and other ASW assets such as patrol planes and Chinese submarines. Our submarines will destroy multiple ships with each single attack. This is not WWII where torpedoes were unguided and a "spread" of them were fired to sink a single ship. With modern torpedoes, one "fish" fired equals one target destroyed. They're that good and that lethal. Our subs would easily fire six to eight torpedoes nearly simultaneously, each fish individually targeted on a different ship with a nearly 100% probability of kill. It would be a free for all, something that generations of submariners dream of: "a target rich environment"! Secondly, the best anti-submarine forces in the world very seldom are ever successful in finding, much less attacking a stealthy nuclear powered attack submarine. The Chinese are far from being the best ASW forces in the world! In a hypothetical war against an amphibious Chinese invasion of Taiwan, I seriously doubt that the US submarine force would lose a single sub to enemy ASW action.
@@bearowen5480 youtube wont let me share a link. Search for “csis the first battle of the next war”. You’ll find a page where you can download the report.
You write all this like the Chinese themselves don't know and aren't either developing counters or have developed counters to mitigate loses. The United States is in no position at all to go to war with China and a different approach needs to be taken.
Not sure about Iranians. They sent some very chip drones(they can produce with easy in industrial quantity) and old equipment to exhaust Israeli defence before they destroyed the real targets. Israeli and friends pretty well understood how costly further escalation could be.
I admire the painting you have Mr. Erhardt in the background! I believe I have the identical same painting and frame as well. Do you know anything about this painter?
Lies lies lies, total AIPAC 🇮🇱 propaganda, totally evil personified, good to know the USA 🇺🇸 is under total control of a foreign country through AIPAC 🇮🇱 financiers. “ Christ is obviously not lord” in the USA 🇺🇸 AIPAC 🇮🇱 is.
It was prophesied that the medo-persian kingdom be destroyed by Greece, or Alexander the Great. It is in the book of Daniel regarding the four kingdoms. The last and final kingdom is Rome, which started with the Caesars and continues with the popes.
Another cerebral observation by VDH! Some of it is obvious, but it is presented in a way that stimulates ones thought processes. History is important in that our species are mere copies of our ancestors. So much damage has been done by the poor administrations in America, the Vietnam era forward that I think it irredeamable! Like the Titanic, we've seen the iceberg too late, the ship of state isn't agile enough to avoid it, & the crew is too haughty, & incompetant to save the day!
The comment on how when you just give people stuff and information they resent you, that's how I feel every time i see RUclips put an auto context below a video
Aside from the larger theme, I would like to discuss the aspect of WHY "people/citizens/etc" give up their living authority to an "ordinary man." Each one of us has only breath that allows us to continue in our lives. Is it fear, uncertainity, or coercion that defeats the basic human will to endure? Any one of these insane rulers that we are considering (and others) can be nullified by an act of clarity and purpose. Courage and determination can work to save a single life, or it might even save a civilization.
Would not usually listen to a guy with stupid tatts channelling the construction guy in the Village People and shows his pets live on screen during the interview, but VDH kept me here Good to listen to VDH as ever. China has 1,000 missiles but the US has 5,000 missiles but we still cannot safely deploy a carrier group into the Taiwan Straits
WW3 and WW4 will happen in this cycle which is the fourth cycle and after the fourth cycle starts again the first cycle, second, third, fourth and so on. All 80 years history is repeating itself. Good luck to all of you. ❤
@@LeeGee Russia is incredibly corrupt and embraces authoritarianism. It has a history of oppression and subjugation of its own people. Read up on their tradition of having a secret police that keeps autocrats in power and molds public opinion with through state controlled media and propaganda and outright oppression of minorities and dissidents. You can try to draw false equivalencies to the USA's many imperfections but they always fall apart upon close inspection.
for what purpose? great powers rarely find true alliances, the "China-Russia" alliance is pretty flimsy despite public perceptions in the west. Russia strategic and geopolitical concerns are completely orthogonal to the US's. We had decent relations with russia in say the '00s but it's never been close to anything resembling a true alliance
Mr. Hansen would be my choice for President. His knowledge and insight are so far above all of the current “politicians “ that it they seem to be children.
Police states have the advantage of a seamless trajectory and retain their memory of mission. We in America have our fortunes scuttled every 2-4 years.
In his last interview here he spread the lies about the beheaded babies that were already debunked way before the interview, he should have opened this one with all the corrections for the stuff he spread.
Babylon ow Babylon speaks again preparing the way for WW3 and Armageddon? Great show, as you say, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles” (SunTzu), relating to this the following tells you what you need to know? Remember the USA 🇺🇸 government is run and controlled by AIPAC 🇮🇱 so I would ask, “how this affects AIPAC 🇮🇱 financiers” not the USA 🇺🇸, if you want to know why this is happening? You will never get the full picture unless you realise who the USA 🇺🇸 government, intelligence agencies, press and American 🇺🇸 social media, are run by and that is AIPAC 🇮🇱 financiers. In fact I would stop saying the American 🇺🇸 government and start to refer to it as the AIPAC 🇮🇱 government as they are in control of it not the American 🇺🇸 population. It’s not the American 🇺🇸 government interfering it’s always AIPAC 🇮🇱 interfering. This is why if you want “Christ to be lord” in the USA 🇺🇸 again you need to remove foreign AIPAC 🇮🇱 interference in USA 🇺🇸 politics as AIPAC 🇮🇱 don’t believe “Christ is lord”.
Thank you, @charlesalexanderable! Robinson obviously doesn't know who VDH is other than a quick google search, he's a real monster and I'm not a weak libtard.
VDH is my favorite political commentator and historian. Regards to China, I have my skepticism on their actual capabilities. They have yet to show aptitude in coordination of large-scale combined operations. Their so-called ace in the hole access denial weapon, ballistic missiles are unproven and reliant on a tenous kill chain highly vulnerable to countermeasures. Now, being able to bombard fixed targets in Taiwan, Guam, Philippines, and Japan might be problematic. PRC nukes are at 500, not a thousand, and their current doctrine does not emphasize it for offensive war to take Taiwan but rather for strategic nuclear deterrence that said could be a problem if their n7clear policy changes.
It sounds like if Victor had to arrange a UFC fights he would ask them how much they bench and award the fight to whomever has the higher score. If he should replace Dana UFC would become a formality more than an actual implementation of dominance. My point is this feels like side-stepping the problem instead of solving it, which is better than the problem hitting you in the face but still.
Excellent interview, very informative. On the lighter side, you with that cat has sort of Dr. evil look to it. I would not go with the cat for the next interview.
Holy shit this guy is embarrassing. The story he is talking about at 57:20 was fake. How did he miss that this literally never happened when people were pointing out that it was fake the moment it was published.
fucking hate youtube deleting links in posts now... I posted a reply about how his story "really" happened. "Really" is in quotes because it was a simulation. Which VDH *said* seconds before your timecode and which nobody except dumbasses on twitter ever thoguht otherwise. You are the embarrassment.
What if our current trajectory is nothing like ww1, is nothing like ww2 or the wars after, but is actually closer to war in ancient times, just more firepower. Our culture is much more like ancient Rome and the Roman empire than previous constitutional bouts or european foes. For instance, the early Roman empire was decadant, had sex shows, gladiatory bouts, eurasian trade routes, inflated currency, extreme income inequality, oligarchs, puppet theatres, dirt aesthetics, and mercenary armies. This is very different than the abstinence of American past times. Is this inevitable trajectory of a bankrupt empire?
Great thoughts. You're quite a student of the "One"! I love your feline. She's obviously happy and truly content with her master. I'll bet her name is Princess! I had one like that 20 years ago. Very intelligent and loyal. A kindred spirit.....
We're all going to die? What about aliens? Terence Howard? Maga? A I? Musk? The global elite? Boeing whistleblowers? Global warming? Just kidding. 4:05
When you watch VDH talk about his books you can tell he feels for the people and what they went through historically. He is simply amazing.
I really felt my coworkers would turn me in during Covid..if they could get promoted..if turning me in meant that my income (livelihood would end) or if I would go to jail or execution it would make no difference..as a culture we have decayed much more than we know..
I had friends who I never saw in different cities condemning me for refusing the shot. They went insane. It didn't take much.
Good for you both
It's always been like that. How many protestant grassed up their catholic neighbours to certain death for some trivial reason? Then we had the, "withhold medical treatment for lockdown opponents" and other attempts to dehumanise us.
I don’t think we’ve decayed, I think we underestimated our capacity for destruction. We have this unique (melting pot) society that hasn’t ever existed and we take it for granted because we’ve never known anything different. We only exist because we agree on a common morality which requires active maintenance. For the last few decades a segment of our population has been attacking our culture, trying to divide our united people into tribal groups with the oppressor vs oppressed narrative and we have allowed them do so unopposed. If we don’t stop them we only have ourselves to blame for the barbarism that follows.
@@goodyeoman4534
False comparison
Thanks!
No problem!
Could listen to Victor Hansen all day
Ditto
Speaks well, and makes a great example of common sense 👍🙏
I do listen to him everyday.
Double Ditto!!
@@johnoconnor8721 Same here on the Victor Davis Hanson show.
VDH is an incredible historian. I’m not a Conservative but I love listening to him.
Youvwill get there!
Being 'incredible' means you can't believe him!
A conservative is somebody a believes in tradition. It is not about political policy.
It’s pretty simple actually…you either believe in a communist platform (liberal), or a traditional America platform (Conservative). History has proven which one is more favorable
@@jmanjman3916 There's a saying, "make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler". I think your comment goes pretty far into the oversimplification
Brilliant Man! What a note to finish to finish on! To isolate the vulnerability of the Present as temporal, and impossible to repeat, doesn't alleviate... but does add a perspective outside. I don't know much about History, and especially the history of War. The American position contemporarily given a measure, today, was great. An introduction to Victor Davis Hanson appreciated too. And great performance by your cat, he/she (Pinns?) knows the score to be sure. Thanks for the work that goes into this podcast. It's very very very cool. James.
Never forget Zelenskyy’s Ukraine 🇺🇦 is a mouth piece for the USA 🇺🇸 government and the USA 🇺🇸 government is controlled by AIPAC 🇮🇱 financiers so it’s not Zelenskyy’s peace proposals it’s AIPAC 🇮🇱 financiers peace proposals. This is not surprising though as AIPAC financiers already own UKRAINE 🇺🇦. I wonder what will happen when the brave soldiers of Ukraine 🇺🇦 realise they have been sold to AIPAC 🇮🇱 financiers by Zelensky and his henchmen who don’t believe “Christ is lord” and have closed down their churches and killed and imprisoned their clergy? Could be a little problematic I would suggest for the unelected president of Ukraine 🇺🇦 and his henchmen?
You are right and I can listen to Victor Davis Hanson all day!! I went to college and I got my grad degree in history and then I went ahead and went onto law school. The one thing I knew even before studying history because I loved it from the age of eight on when my dad ordered these World War II, Tom life books and it was a series of four that came in the mail and I grabbed the first.
I took it to my room and started reading it, and it was on the second one came in the mail a month or two later, my dad was asking about the first volume. Hmmm? Oh I had it and when I told him I had been reading it and he wasn’t angry at all, but rather shocked that the girl that was almost 9, and played soccer would be interested in that, but he knew I was a student and academic. I loved history and I did not take western civilization in grade school, but I took it in college.. the one thing history even going back to the American revolution early European history and Anglo-Saxon history ,it shows there’s nothing new under the sun and history repeats itself. In today’s world Communist, China is playing chess. One other countries are playing checkers and the CCP is pure evil and I don’t want a America a United States, which is my country to get involved in a China disaster over between China and Taiwan. However, I’m just perplexed as to why China got this land in 1945 after World War II and even after the communist revolution in 1949, Mao had no desire to go into Taijuan, which was where the prior government fled. I think he believed he had enough to take care of there, and that big country, and they were on a mass murder spree and murdering all the landlords & landowners..However, MANY of those peasants and other individuals who helped him with the revolution, which they normally would not have won if not for Soviet help. Do USA and didn’t help the democratic government and China but they were so wiped out after Japan invaded them in the 1930s that they were weak and during that time does CCP just hid up in the mountains and work hours when they really should’ve been fighting for their land as well. That’s why I see the CCP as being evil, conniving, and they cheat, and they still so much we could pay off our national deficit with all the intellectual property China has stolen from us. One day at & pretty sure that the USA will cash in because every airplane or ship China has made with technology. They stole from the USA or another western country is not made the same.. even trying to build it to the best of their standards, which would be better than total crap to us here in America, or something that falls apart, there lady is not equipped to go into deep waters, even though they’ve been working on it, but their ships look like yachts and appear to be made out of fiberglass more than steel unless that’s just the way they look. China hasn’t had anything to do with Taiwan in so long and I don’t want to see the culture on that island destroyed and at the same time I think as an American in the USA that we shouldn’t get into this because it’s not worth World War III, and if World War III does happen., & the allies are victorious. We will gladly give Taiwan and the people that land back- God willing they live. Try not going into Taijuan would be much much worse than Hong Kong and Hong Kong used to be a colony of Britain’s and when Britttany moved out some years later, the Chinese just went rolling in and they were really furious that the people in Hong Kong we’re waiting American flags in those people probably got killed..
The Chinese are playing biological warfare with illnesses and chemical warfare with a compound to make fentanyl with the Mexican cartels. It was Great Britain and not the United States that sold opiate and opioid to the Chinese people that calls in the generation of shame, etc.. china just wants what we have but at the same time they’re also drooling over what’s going on in Russia because Russia is right next-door. China plays, and that’s the way Axis Powers always fight, and that is that they will stab each other in the back when they can. Turner will use anybody and everybody didn’t feed America and then they’ll go into the jugular just to have Russia because the United States and Russia have every natural resources and we really are not dependent on anybody else in the world. We trade because we do but it’s not something we have to do and China does not have the resources like the vast amounts of fertile soil & water amongst other things that Russia and the United States has. I’m thankful to live in the USA because you can go to state or two beside you and it looks like a different country. Russia is awful because during World War II, the Germans, and just the German non-Nazi third Reich soldiers said when it was warm the bugs were atrocious, were nasty, and then when it was colder, it was just absolutely freezing, and the climate, the train, and the bugs in the freezing cold were miserable there. They could not imagine German people wanting to even spread out there and LIVE like in other areas in Western Europe like the Baltics, Poland, Ukraine but probably just farm there. There’s nothing new under the sun.. here in the USA, we just have a very corrupt government and their inefficient, so worried and controlling re: social issues. Unlike World War II, when Japan attacked pearl harbor., one of the senior military brass in Japan, said there was absolutely no way you could invade America and even think about winning because behind every newspaper there was a weapon! 😂😂 true!! it’s my second amendment people will keep them and not let go of them, and even though we know there are nukes and intercontinental blisters, it doesn’t matter because at least we’ll have something to protect ourselves with.
Americans in the USA or some crazy people and I don’t know sometimes if they are crazy and dangerous, which makes them good heroes, but kind of bad guy heroes. (You have to see a video on RUclips of the fat electrician and he’s talking about Jake McNasty, but his name was Jake McNeese! 😂 it is a very entertaining story, and especially with the fat electrician telling it. It is all true, and this guy should’ve been kicked out and he was in the stockade more than out of it, but he, and a couple of other guys very similar to him, were excellent for what they were about to do in Nazi occupied Europe, and they wanted to jump out of airplanes and go blow up things behind enemy lines!! they were perfect for that kind of work. Jake lived a long life, but it was him being born around 1919 and living through the great depression and having to go hunt and fish to survive with his mom and dad with eight other siblings that made him that way but he was a hard worker.! he worked with the fire department, and he didn’t actually have to go in the World War II, and he didn’t have to get drafted, but he chose to enlist.
During the American revolution, there was a Scotsman, who moved to America when it was still a British colony, and his name was John Paul Jones in the father of the US Navy, and that man race, all kinds of hell, with his buddies destroying arsenals over in Britain and one in Scotland and then they went to France to fully but they ship was broken so they had to get another one to get back to America. And the British were sick of the Americans because they were a pain in the butt and they had to call the British way back to Great Britain because of this guy and his 50-100 sailors. Now I will get American Western Europe and we have a younger group that is extremely weak and they wine and throw temper tantrums all the time.. Bill Maher said on HBO that he thought they were trying to be noble but they were really being assholes!😂 those are the first people to go running behind and crying for Mommy when somebody starts firing a guns
Lies lies lies, total AIPAC 🇮🇱 propaganda, totally evil personified, good to know the USA 🇺🇸 is under total control of a foreign country through AIPAC 🇮🇱 financiers. “ Christ is obviously not lord” in the USA 🇺🇸 AIPAC 🇮🇱 is.
one of the smartest people we can listen to.
He knows a lot of history for sure.
He has to talk about ancient history because when he talks about current reality the holes in his logic are plentiful.
@@gmw3083Really? Examples, please.
@@julieconnard4372 He's a defender of izrul and zionism. Smart enough to know there's no way to successfully defend either....
Trump needs thus man.
Mr. Hanson is a living encyclopedia and a treasure for this country ~!!!
You are so correct. Great comment!
Davis Hanson is the last name.
Great job on this one. I think probably my favorite of the handful of blogs/interviews that I've seen on this channel.
Davis Hanson has immense grace when dealing with stupid questions and wrong questions
The kid's simply learning from the master. Why are you such a prick about it? Anyone who can keep up with VDH has got to be an intelligent student of his.
I get the impression that when people finally wake up to reality, it is inevitably too late.
Me too. Victor's parallels past conquests & current events is like the cheat code that nobody believes in the present
It was ever thus. There were Carthaginians still thinking they could make a deal with the Romans as their walls were being battered down.
Strange how this channel has never crossed my feed and it's exactly the content I'm interested in. Guess the algorithm only works properly for lefties.
A powerful observation.
Seek The Lord while you still can
Only a Maga idiot would make such a comment. Why don't you go educate them about the dangers of Trump
It just came across my feed too and I'm a right-y. I am a fan of VDH though! Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat the stupid mistakes made in the past.
so true
Thank you for making an attempt at opening minds and clarifying reality...
Fascinating interview. I'm not a total moron, but VDH makes me feel like I know next to nothing.
You do.
Lean, study history, history repeats
@@lauralintonmacfarlane5264 The cyclic history theory is beyond simplistic and boring, Any fool know wars and economic fluctuations will repeat at various intervals.
@lauralintonmacfarlane5264: When I watched his interview this AM with a different interviewer I was already drawing parallels to what's happening in the world as we speak.
VDH's comment that no one knows what's happening while it's happening sounds correct. No one in Britain in 1939 would have forseen the speed of her collapse after the events of WW2.
From the non-Anglo colonies it was obvious
A few would have. It was well-known the empire was very costly and increasingly difficult to manage and that one major war could see it collapse.
@@goodyeoman4534 I'm not sure anyone would have forseen it becoming bankrupt. Rationing lasted till 1954, the last country of all those involved in the war. I suppose the collapse of the four empires after WW1 was even more surprising. Reading the Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark left me thinking that none of those people had a clue as to what was about to happen.
@@scottgraham1143 I think some would have foreseen it, or at least raised it as a remote possibility. Even back then, historians knew how to make a parallel to the fall of Rome.
@@scottgraham1143 Bread began rationing after the war to feed the losers. But I don't remember it going on so long. I thought it finished in '52.
We are living in a very precarious world, wars, earthquakes, and economic instability, etc.
❗There is no more knowledgeable historian and analyst than Hansen. His comments are always crisp and incisive, he doesn't ramble. Thank you !
Thank you. Riveting! 👍
Amazing conversation😮🎉
Frightening truth. Thank you both
I recommend John Anderson's interview.
Yes, it's an excellent interview. By the way, 🧢 s on VDH look ordinary.
John? Is that you?
@@goodyeoman4534 No I'm his dad.
Jon Anderson of YES?
www.youtube.com/@JohnAndersonConversations/videos
It’s encouraging to see a young man listening to Victor Davis Hanson. TY
Great Job. Very informative.
Victor Davis Hanson is excellent.
Nice podcast! I learned some really interesting things and how it applies to events today.
Good interview, Ty.
VDH is brilliant as always and that hat is 🔥
He is a brilliant man
Id like to learn more from this guy
LOVE to listen in on TRUTH's unfolding common sense!
I'm 70 years old and reside in Australia. I have been a student of history for 60 of those years, and from 1972, duly kept abreast of politics, both domestically and increasingly with foreign nuances.
I have travelled to 51 countries, and been to and through the US, on 14 occasions. And whilst I don't pretend, let alone purport to be an oracle on anything, I can say I'm well versed on the machinations of VDH. Alas, the warnings that he makes about a plethora of things is skin to the biblical adage of, casting pearls before swine.
Regrettably, the Western world, ostensibly with the US, Britain, and Canada are way past the point of salvation. This is due to a few coherences, but most significantly so due to mass non- discriminatory immigration programs, which have radically transmogrified their social fabrics. And this is diabolically proven with the hundreds of thousands of Muslims who have staged continuous pro-Palestinian rallies in England since late October.
Meanwhile, the US, is embroiled in serious conflicts in Ukraine, and Gaza/Israel. As for defending Taiwan from Chinese aggression is as likely as catching bubbles that a child might blow.
Zionist policies have destroyed the west, leading to massive death and immigration all for israel nothing more
Well said
Well Australia is in the same shit and you know it
@@LMTMarta --- You won't get me arguing about Australia being a dysfunctional, sociological shit-show.
Great guest, show, questions!
God bless you ❤
WISDOM IS NEEDED ,THANKS SIR
❤❤❤ Wow! Another banger! His new book is incredible. Must read.
Thank you and your cat for hosting professor Hanson.
Interviewer asks Good Questions, Thanks for doing this
Unfortunately, students today are being told they are bad, Americans are bad. I am one of the college instructors that does not teach that. With the comfort the students live in and the oceans on each side cushioning them, the students have no idea of what the real world is outside of their vision is like and what we need to do to prepare for adversity. Preparation is not aggression. They don't understand this difference of thought.
Teachers and Universities are the cause of the downfall. They are centers for indoctrination
If American politicians knew just a third of what this man Hanson knows , America would be in great shape .
This was a fascinating conversation, if I’m not mistaken the first time I was really intrigued by Thebes was in the original The Mummy 😂 I remember being very intrigued by the dialogue in the movie lmao
May God Bless You an Hanson family .I appreachate the honest truth which
prepaires us for future reality. May God an Holy word be with you.
I would argue in favor of moral regression, given what we witnessed during cv19.
Submarines, Victor, submarines! We've already heard from CINCPAC that in the event of an attempted amphibious invasion of Taiwan that because of China's potent ship and shore based anti-ship missile forces, US carrier battle groups will have to be kept approximately 1,000 nautical miles east of the battle area. This dictates that all US and Allied tactical air assets will have to sortie from air bases ashore in Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, Saipan, and Guam.
The good news, if there is any, is that US and Allied fast attack submarines will be the decisive key to thwarting a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. First, subs will have laid potent anti-ship minefields in strategic grids guarding all avenues of approach to the severely limited suitable landing sites on Taiwan's coasts. Many of those mines may already be in place. Modern anti-ship mines can lie dormant for years waiting to be remotely armed when needed. It would take an enormous mine sweeping effort by a highly specialized fleet of vessels that the Chinese don't have, to clear a wide enough path for an amphibious flotilla to pass through en route to Taiwan.
Secondly, the subs can easily torpedo and destroy most of a Chinese invasion force before it even reaches the open waters of the Strait, and then pick off any survivors at will. Detractors will point out that the Taiwan Strait is generally rather shallow for attack submarine operations, but attack boat sailors have told me that is not true. It would be more hazardous to operate offensively there, but not impossible.
Thirdly, amphibious assaults are notoriously difficult to execute. The premier and currently only national practitioner of amphibious warfare is the US Marine Corps-US Navy team which has had a hundred years since the British debacle at Gallipoli to perfect the highly specialized shipping, weapons, and tactics to successfully perform an amphibious landing on a heavily defended island like Taiwan. The Chinese don't have the required specialized shipping they would need and aren't currently trying to build it. It's extremely unlikely that they could develop this capability in a matter of a couple decades, let alone the three to five years that is being talked about by US military planners. Right now the PRC's sham plan for transporting troops and combat vehicles to Taiwan is to use intercoastal commercial ferries which is risable to anyone who knows anything about amphibious warfare.
In my opinion, the PRC is using its open threat of invading Taiwan as a political tool to intimidate the Taiwanese government into agreeing to peaceful unification with the mainland. I'm afraid that you and a lot of other foreign policy experts have been taken in by this Chinese ploy.
US Naval War College Graduate and elective Submarine Warfare course.
Your analysis is better than his. My livelihood is deeply dependent on the situation in the pacific. Analysis predicts that American subs will be able to sink two to three large amphibious warships every 2.5 days and each sub will have a 20% chance of being sunk itself in these 2.5 days.
@@bathhatingcat8626 You don't say whose "analysis" predicts the loss of )friendly subs at one every 2.5 days. I totally scoff at that. First, amphibious ships would have to travel with other ships in a convoy protected by destroyers and other ASW assets such as patrol planes and Chinese submarines. Our submarines will destroy multiple ships with each single attack. This is not WWII where torpedoes were unguided and a "spread" of them were fired to sink a single ship. With modern torpedoes, one "fish" fired equals one target destroyed. They're that good and that lethal. Our subs would easily fire six to eight torpedoes nearly simultaneously, each fish individually targeted on a different ship with a nearly 100% probability of kill. It would be a free for all, something that generations of submariners dream of: "a target rich environment"!
Secondly, the best anti-submarine forces in the world very seldom are ever successful in finding, much less attacking a stealthy nuclear powered attack submarine. The Chinese are far from being the best ASW forces in the world! In a hypothetical war against an amphibious Chinese invasion of Taiwan, I seriously doubt that the US submarine force would lose a single sub to enemy ASW action.
You can download the report here. I believe it starts on page 135
@@bearowen5480 youtube wont let me share a link. Search for “csis the first battle of the next war”. You’ll find a page where you can download the report.
You write all this like the Chinese themselves don't know and aren't either developing counters or have developed counters to mitigate loses. The United States is in no position at all to go to war with China and a different approach needs to be taken.
Thank you, gentlemen!
Not sure about Iranians. They sent some very chip drones(they can produce with easy in industrial quantity) and old equipment to exhaust Israeli defence before they destroyed the real targets. Israeli and friends pretty well understood how costly further escalation could be.
I admire the painting you have Mr. Erhardt in the background! I believe I have the identical same painting and frame as well. Do you know anything about this painter?
Beautiful cat ! Great color scheme ! I love cats and we currently have 5.
title: Annihilation, genocide, world war 3
thumbnail Robinson:😃
Based.
Thought this was going to be about Isreal and it's Genocidal Leaders..
Dos Dr Hanson have a photographic memory?
When people ask me “What’s your take on ….?” I just tell them my views are those that VDH has !
Loved it
Hansoon always reminds us why we got to this point, he buys all the basic narratives, from Israel to the Uighurs to Iran.
VDH smartest man on the planet!
Oof. No wonder civilization is crumbling
Lies lies lies, total AIPAC 🇮🇱 propaganda, totally evil personified, good to know the USA 🇺🇸 is under total control of a foreign country through AIPAC 🇮🇱 financiers. “ Christ is obviously not lord” in the USA 🇺🇸 AIPAC 🇮🇱 is.
It was prophesied that the medo-persian kingdom be destroyed by Greece, or Alexander the Great. It is in the book of Daniel regarding the four kingdoms. The last and final kingdom is Rome, which started with the Caesars and continues with the popes.
Interesting. How does this apply to the current crisis?
He's discredited on the current crisis. Like all ziowesternists..
Iran will soon have nuclear weapons that are deliverable….
So much for green dreams of global warming,,,,,,,,
Another cerebral observation by VDH! Some of it is obvious, but it is presented in a way that stimulates ones thought processes. History is important in that our species are mere copies of our ancestors. So much damage has been done by the poor administrations in America, the Vietnam era forward that I think it irredeamable! Like the Titanic, we've seen the iceberg too late, the ship of state isn't agile enough to avoid it, & the crew is too haughty, & incompetant to save the day!
The word is "nuCLear." Another public school product.
Hey there was WMDs in Iraq, until there wasn't..
"Mission Acomplished"
@@gmw3083 And we were all going to die of COVID if we didn't agree to Draconian restrictions. And the world will end if we don't pay green taxes etc.
The comment on how when you just give people stuff and information they resent you, that's how I feel every time i see RUclips put an auto context below a video
What are those mechanisms?We need to know what they are because none of us what war
EXCELLENT 🔥✝️🕊🛐🙌
Aside from the larger theme, I would like to discuss the aspect of WHY "people/citizens/etc" give up their living authority to an "ordinary man."
Each one of us has only breath that allows us to continue in our lives. Is it fear, uncertainity, or coercion that defeats the basic human will to endure?
Any one of these insane rulers that we are considering (and others) can be nullified by an act of clarity and purpose. Courage and determination
can work to save a single life, or it might even save a civilization.
Good podcast. No need for the intro to be 3:30 long.
Like the poem “the wanderer”
21:11 ''...why...?'': ...T.R. explained it forty years earlier: Speak softly and carry a big stick.
There used to be many more American academics like VDH.
If only VDH were to be on the 2024 presidential ticket, I would vote for him.
Would not usually listen to a guy with stupid tatts channelling the construction guy in the Village People and shows his pets live on screen during the interview, but VDH kept me here
Good to listen to VDH as ever. China has 1,000 missiles but the US has 5,000 missiles but we still cannot safely deploy a carrier group into the Taiwan Straits
You won't get a guy on mainstream media talking about America's shortcomings.
Victor gets it !
Love your kitty😊
Trump needs VDH on his team.
WW3 and WW4 will happen in this cycle which is the fourth cycle and after the fourth cycle starts again the first cycle, second, third, fourth and so on. All 80 years history is repeating itself. Good luck to all of you. ❤
Any practical reason why we shouldn't be allied with Russia?
Incompatible values.
@@LeeGee Russia is incredibly corrupt and embraces authoritarianism. It has a history of oppression and subjugation of its own people. Read up on their tradition of having a secret police that keeps autocrats in power and molds public opinion with through state controlled media and propaganda and outright oppression of minorities and dissidents. You can try to draw false equivalencies to the USA's many imperfections but they always fall apart upon close inspection.
@@edog101Like what? Russians value family,personal freedom,art,music,literature of course. Vodka. I wonder what makes us such enemies?
Because Russia is against ziowesternism
for what purpose? great powers rarely find true alliances, the "China-Russia" alliance is pretty flimsy despite public perceptions in the west. Russia strategic and geopolitical concerns are completely orthogonal to the US's. We had decent relations with russia in say the '00s but it's never been close to anything resembling a true alliance
good
Maybe I'm a weirdo but I love both this guy and Finkelstein even though they have opposite views. I'd love to see them speak to one another.
Japan killed 800,000 westerners? I question that figure.
Does deterrence work against ideologues who are aiming to provoke destruction at the cost of martyrdom?
Mr. Hansen would be my choice for President. His knowledge and insight are so far above all of the current “politicians “ that it they seem to be children.
Police states have the advantage of a seamless trajectory and retain their memory of mission. We in America have our fortunes scuttled every 2-4 years.
@@LeeGee only for undiscerning oafs unfit to be entrusted with wit.
“Decline is a choice - it is not inevitable” VDH.
In his last interview here he spread the lies about the beheaded babies that were already debunked way before the interview, he should have opened this one with all the corrections for the stuff he spread.
Ha ur funny
Smile weirdo
Typical excuse for these HAMAS terrorists. What about all the rapes, they did not happen?
Babylon ow Babylon speaks again preparing the way for WW3 and Armageddon?
Great show, as you say, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles” (SunTzu), relating to this the following tells you what you need to know?
Remember the USA 🇺🇸 government is run and controlled by AIPAC 🇮🇱 so I would ask, “how this affects AIPAC 🇮🇱 financiers” not the USA 🇺🇸, if you want to know why this is happening?
You will never get the full picture unless you realise who the USA 🇺🇸 government, intelligence agencies, press and American 🇺🇸 social media, are run by and that is AIPAC 🇮🇱 financiers.
In fact I would stop saying the American 🇺🇸 government and start to refer to it as the AIPAC 🇮🇱 government as they are in control of it not the American 🇺🇸 population.
It’s not the American 🇺🇸 government interfering it’s always AIPAC 🇮🇱 interfering.
This is why if you want “Christ to be lord” in the USA 🇺🇸 again you need to remove foreign AIPAC 🇮🇱 interference in USA 🇺🇸 politics as AIPAC 🇮🇱 don’t believe “Christ is lord”.
Thank you, @charlesalexanderable! Robinson obviously doesn't know who VDH is other than a quick google search, he's a real monster and I'm not a weak libtard.
Beautiful cat
Aircraft carriers are so vulnerable. Not sure they any use against a big sophisticated enemy.
VDH is a national treasure.
What a great video here.
thanks
Fascinating
VDH is my favorite political commentator and historian. Regards to China, I have my skepticism on their actual capabilities. They have yet to show aptitude in coordination of large-scale combined operations. Their so-called ace in the hole access denial weapon, ballistic missiles are unproven and reliant on a tenous kill chain highly vulnerable to countermeasures. Now, being able to bombard fixed targets in Taiwan, Guam, Philippines, and Japan might be problematic. PRC nukes are at 500, not a thousand, and their current doctrine does not emphasize it for offensive war to take Taiwan but rather for strategic nuclear deterrence that said could be a problem if their n7clear policy changes.
VDH is the wisest man in the world.
What are we going to do about all of the Chinese Nationals camped out around the Continent?
Hear, hear.
It sounds like if Victor had to arrange a UFC fights he would ask them how much they bench and award the fight to whomever has the higher score.
If he should replace Dana UFC would become a formality more than an actual implementation of dominance.
My point is this feels like side-stepping the problem instead of solving it, which is better than the problem hitting you in the face but still.
Excellent interview, very informative. On the lighter side, you with that cat has sort of Dr. evil look to it. I would not go with the cat for the next interview.
A little worried about the administration? America is self destructing
Holy shit this guy is embarrassing. The story he is talking about at 57:20 was fake. How did he miss that this literally never happened when people were pointing out that it was fake the moment it was published.
fucking hate youtube deleting links in posts now... I posted a reply about how his story "really" happened. "Really" is in quotes because it was a simulation. Which VDH *said* seconds before your timecode and which nobody except dumbasses on twitter ever thoguht otherwise. You are the embarrassment.
What if our current trajectory is nothing like ww1, is nothing like ww2 or the wars after, but is actually closer to war in ancient times, just more firepower. Our culture is much more like ancient Rome and the Roman empire than previous constitutional bouts or european foes. For instance, the early Roman empire was decadant, had sex shows, gladiatory bouts, eurasian trade routes, inflated currency, extreme income inequality, oligarchs, puppet theatres, dirt aesthetics, and mercenary armies. This is very different than the abstinence of American past times. Is this inevitable trajectory of a bankrupt empire?
Amazing!
Great thoughts. You're quite a student of the "One"! I love your feline. She's obviously happy and truly content with her master. I'll bet her name is Princess! I had one like that 20 years ago. Very intelligent and loyal. A kindred spirit.....
What about the Etruscans?
Etruscans! Tuscany. Absorbed rather than exterminated by the Romans.
We're all going to die?
What about aliens?
Terence Howard?
Maga?
A I?
Musk?
The global elite?
Boeing whistleblowers?
Global warming?
Just kidding. 4:05
Creepy but I think accurate