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The Classicist Podcast, with Victor Davis Hanson: “America’s Four Great National Security Threats”
In this week’s installment of The Classicist Podcast from the Hoover Institution, VDH takes us on a tour of global hotspots, discussing the threats posed to the United States by the ayatollahs in Iran, a restive China, Putin’s Russia, and ISIS. Along the way, he diagnoses how the Obama Administration has mishandled these threats and what the next president can do about it.
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Hey – Mr Obama won the Nobel Prize – what could possibly go wrong?
The Peace Prize, no less.
I would add a fifth: the Democat Party.
Another good podcast.
I’d like to hear Victor’s thoughts on present and possible alliances between our enemies. Which should we be most wary of? What could be done to weaken those alliances?
Also, what became of Hezbollah at the Mexican border? Should we be wary of partnership between Muslim terrorists, Russians in Cuba, and Mexican drug cartels?
Threats are too often considered in isolation. What Russia or Iran could not get away with if acting alone, such nations could indeed accomplish if attacking their separate victims simultaneously.
Dr. Hanson’s final thoughts are very scary.
I imagine that fingers and toes remain crossed in the White House, as they hope for the end of Barry’s 2nd term before something large inevitably uncorks in any one of the places described by Dr. Hanson. He leaves the US militarily and economically weakened, with a short list of emboldened aggressors who will be quite happy to take advantage of the wreckage he’s leaving behind.
Barry will quite happily blame whatever happens after his presidency on things other than himself, since he does that for just about anything negative that happens. They used to call Reagan the “Teflon president” because nothing bad seemed to stick to him, in terms of negatives. The difference is that Barry’s narcissism is what shields him from failure, in his own regard, and he’ll never have to own up for what he’s already cost the world, and will cost the world more well after he’s gone.
What’s laughable about him now is how in Iran he’s making statements about the “people” deciding what kind of government they want. He had a million or so of them marching for a “fundamental transformation” in 2009 but managed to both say and do almost nothing to help them. And now he’s encouraging them?
Those aren’t stones he’s sporting. They are clown shoes.
if you haven’t listened to this, do so. It’s very good.