I look forward to these broadcasts because they are by a massive margin the most intelligent broadcast on current affairs on RU-vid. VDH is lucid and to the point, so on point and understandable when he makes his view public. and John Anderson has the sense to keep quiet in the presence of such brilliance - he steers the boat but keeps out of the wind!
In this most turbulent time in USA History, I need to hear Victor Davis Hanson daily, he puts things in great perspective and calms me down personally.
@@jameslippincott7440 His writings are incredibly full of insight and straight up facts that most people never get because of the constant propaganda being spewed in the media and elsewhere.
I agree 100%. there are not many nights that I don't use him for a good bedtime story. All great listening and I don't need to look at the video - just like a podcast.
VDH is so intelligent that I have a hard time (law school graduate here) understanding the point he’s making. But occasionally, he’ll bring it down to my level and the bits and pieces I manage to pick up are absolutely PRICELESS. Thank you Mr. Hanson for your contribution to mankind. It is deeply appreciated by me.
Retired pipefitter-welder here. Understood every bit of it. Not to criticize you personally, sir...but being a lawyer, you should bring suit against every institution that awarded you a degree... FUGGHEDABOUDIT!
This was 1 yr ago. It seems Putin is winning. He is decimating Ukraine with thousands of innocent deaths. Thousands of dead young Russian men also. What'll be of all this invasion and war??? The US is being demolished under this administration. I think all started falling apart under the senile Biden administration and all the bad destructive decisions he made.
China is in no position to enter into a war of attrition against any strong country, for the reason that their 'One Child' policy has left them with an army of spoiled mummy's boys who will not want to risk leaving their parents childless? Also the women who have had to bare being denied children, will not sit back when the only children, they have been allowed, are brought home in body-bags? All they have left is bluff ...?
The USA has a MONROE DOCTRINE! Does anyone remember the Cuban Missile Crisis? Do you remember how you murdered Allende in Chile (1973)? How did you change governments in Guatemala (1954), Bolivia (1971), and Nicaragua (1990)? The size of Ukraine is similar to France, so it takes at least one week for the tanks to arrive.The campaign goes very well. The USA and the EU are funding neonazi groups in Ukraine, like the Right Sector. The Americans demand Putin accept a NATO Ukraine with nuclear missiles that can reach Moscow in a few minutes. Usual American propaganda. It's a DISGRACE to hear HANSON saying all this nonsense.
@Nikos Antikythera - To say its time to retire, that's being hyperbolic. His insights are always valued whether hes proven correct or not. You have a good point though and I tend to agree. Pretty sure this war happened because the western sphere of influence continued to push their will and threaten to make Ukraine a part of NATO when Russia clearly stated that it would not allow that.
China is in no position to enter into a war of attrition against any strong country, for the reason that their 'One Child' policy has left them with an army of spoiled mummy's boys who will not want to risk leaving their parents childless? Also the women who have had to bare being denied children, will not sit back when the only children, they have been allowed, are brought home in body-bags? All they have left is bluff ...?
@@davidbanner6230 China's population is larger than the EU and the USA combined. In addition, the USA has a declining white population and a big problem with a rising latin american population that does n o t adjust to Amerika (they don't even speak english). China has already won.
It was not fortune that gave us this massive infiltration of a few million neo-nahzees in our government just like it was not up to fortune in Ukraine.
@@hermitthefrog8951 I guess. All I know at this moment is I’ve lost contact w my loved ones in Kherson. Nothing since yesterday. War is an abomination.
The USA has a MONROE DOCTRINE! Does anyone remember the Cuban Missile Crisis? Do you remember how you murdered Allende in Chile (1973)? How did you change governments in Guatemala (1954), Bolivia (1971), and Nicaragua (1990)? The size of Ukraine is similar to France, so it takes at least one week for the tanks to arrive.The campaign goes very well. The USA and the EU are funding neonazi groups in Ukraine, like the Right Sector. The Americans demand Putin accept a NATO Ukraine with nuclear missiles that can reach Moscow in a few minutes. Usual American propaganda. It's a DISGRACE to hear HANSON saying all this nonsense.
@@kingpriapatius5832 Hey nice deflection to "what about America?" you did there, but we are talking about Russia invading Ukraine. I know I know, your gopnik boss wants you to spread misinformation. I get it, but it's really transparent when you cannot stay on topic.
@@kingpriapatius5832 I'll respond how you respond: What about Russians invasion of Afghanistan? Purely a land and resource grab with absolutely no other label for it. Russians are backing literal nazi militias within their own country and then turn around and call JEWISH people "nazis". "The campaign goes very well" 😭😭🤣🤣
VDH is one of the most intelligent and insightful people I've had the pleasure of listening to, possibly, EVER in my life..! I scour the internet for content from him and have read all the books I can find by him. What he has to say, and the measured and thoughtful way in which he says it, is likely more important in this country now , than probably ever before... IF that is even possible. God Bless this man. 🙏👣🤲 🧐
As the world gets crazier, the voices of reason become more powerful. It’s great to see these wise men sharing their knowledge for free with anyone who wants to hear it. VDH is great and I’m happy to see more of John Anderson as his podcast grows. I think these long discussions are a great way to see who’s real and who is posturing, as has been said many times before. Thank you both for sharing your time and knowledge!
The USA has a MONROE DOCTRINE! Does anyone remember the Cuban Missile Crisis? Do you remember how you murdered Allende in Chile (1973)? How did you change governments in Guatemala (1954), Bolivia (1971), and Nicaragua (1990)? The size of Ukraine is similar to France, so it takes at least one week for the tanks to arrive.The campaign goes very well. The USA and the EU are funding neonazi groups in Ukraine, like the Right Sector. The Americans demand Putin accept a NATO Ukraine with nuclear missiles that can reach Moscow in a few minutes. Usual American propaganda. It's a DISGRACE to hear HANSON saying all this nonsense.
I totally agree with you ! Mr. Hanson is inspiring and competent. Who is prepared to listen to him and give him credit all the Biden Administration should listen to him but they won't it should be clear to most of us why not? I am starting to lose faith I don't care for myself I am quite old but what about the young ones? I have 2 young grandchildren living in the US and I worry.... thanks God my son has no children here in Europe
The USA has a MONROE DOCTRINE! Does anyone remember the Cuban Missile Crisis? Do you remember how you murdered Allende in Chile (1973)? How did you change governments in Guatemala (1954), Bolivia (1971), and Nicaragua (1990)? The size of Ukraine is similar to France, so it takes at least one week for the tanks to arrive.The campaign goes very well. The USA and the EU are funding neonazi groups in Ukraine, like the Right Sector. The Americans demand Putin accept a NATO Ukraine with nuclear missiles that can reach Moscow in a few minutes. Usual American propaganda. It's a DISGRACE to hear HANSON saying all this nonsense.
He's great, but not perfect. He seems to think Messenia is in Italy but instead is located in Greece. Or, he could be simply mispronouncing Messina, which is in Italy.
Many people of this mans generation and the generations before him had a similar knowledge of History. History was a compulsory subject at school for ten years or more. Equally many people read books,and television of the day had many documentary's. Only N A T O and The Pentagon had A NET.
@@chrishooge3442 In what way? He said supplying the Ukrainians was the right thing to do even though he was worried they would be overrun. Since then the front has moved east on the whole. What has changed for the worse? It is true that for a while hopes for an early Ukrainian victory were kindled, but things are far more hopeful now than they were at the time of this video. From the standpoint of the time of this video to now, what has changed for the worse? Tucker Carlson?
@@digitalnomad9985 He's changed his tune as Ukraine has resisted Russia for 2 years. Go back and watch his talks from before the invasion. He blames the West. He blames NATO expansion. He says Putin has not territorial ambitions. The one thing he gets right is Russian can't occupy Ukraine...that's been proven true. But he's flat wrong about Putin's territorial ambitions.
I've been wondering what Victor Davis Hanson's take on the Ukraine mess would be and came across this interview and was very impressed with his analysis, which goes far beyond the Russia/Ukraine disaster. It's so much more comprehensive than anything I've seen from anyone else it's very educational on many levels and more topics than I have seen anywhere else. Incredibly impressive. I wish it were more well known.
I have too much respect for Dr. Hanson and the former deputy PM to refer to either by their first names but I agree they offer an awesome conversation.
VDH is wrong to characterize Russia as "despised". Some gullible people may have adopted the ignorant attitudes served up to them by the media, but in general Russia is perceived as a nation with gravitas, a deep and profound history and a tenacity which makes the effete nations of the rest of the Western world pale by comparison.
There has been a fairly long history of hating and demonizing Russia. Fortunately, there have been attempts to humanize Russia and to distinguish between the Russian people and its government.
I have this question - in Putin's speech justifying his bellicose stance towards NATO and the West before the invasion, he lists a number of NATO involvements in regime changes from Libya through to Iraq, etc. as well as the Maiden Revolution (regime change?) and Western Partners' unwillingness to insist on Ukraine implementing the Minsk agreements, what could the West have done differently to avoid this situation where Ukraine and its people become the expendable pawns in which a fight between fatcats (sic) in Brussels on the one side and Moscow on the other is settled?
Could Germany and France put pressure on Ukraine to start implementing the Minsk agreemen? I feel like Zelensky just was going to keep ignoring the Minsk agreement because he thought the EU has his back
They could have reassured Russia that they would not allow Ukraine into NATO (who had 9 countries in 1998 and 23 at the present...all pointing their missiles at Russia). Instead the US paid for a facilitated a coup d'état against a democratically elected, friendly to Russia government.
Your conversations with VDH are among your best, always! The most insightful, truthful, interesting, accurate evaluations. Honesty with integrity - Keep it coming! Thx!
I think someone gave him a script to follow tonight ! Sometimes these pod cast host have to say contrary to what they feel and believe because we are at war with the CCP Cyberly ! and we are at war internally with these Globalist. in D.C. and the election stealer s and cern and sorro s and old Klaus Schwab etc.
Look back at all the people that were Trump adviser s for year s in W.H. Look how many were film writers movie maker s documentary makers. Next war- Xi in Taiwan destroying bio lab s also - real battle real people dying but sum n doesn't sound correctly right
Thank you for your podcasts. Been following you since your first talk with Jordan Peterson. Love your practical common-sense approach, and especially in today's podcast with Victor Davis Hanson that goes from the practical to sublime common sense. :)
@@JohnAndersonMedia Not sure why everybody claims that his war is a total surprise. Putin said that he would start a ware if: Ukraine joined NATO (was invited in June 2021) and if negotiations stopped (in late 2021 Ukraine withdraw from negotiations). However, this time of the year is the worst (mud in all forms). Russia will probably take the eastern part of Ukraine. EU will have a food scare as much of the food comes from Russia or Ukraine. People in Africa can not afford food and start to starve... yeas its a perfect storm. Please take notes: NATO will only defend members that can defend themselves. So the Baltic states are on their own. They should invest like 5-10% of their state budget but invest less than 3%.. not worth dying for...
China is in no position to enter into a war of attrition against any strong country, for the reason that their 'One Child' policy has left them with an army of spoiled mummy's boys who will not want to risk leaving their parents childless? Also the women who have had to bare being denied children, will not sit back when the only children, they have been allowed, are brought home in body-bags? All they have left is bluff ...?
A bit disappointed that VDH picked up the Russia/Ukraine conversation at the same point where the traditional media starts, in 2022. The narrative is far different when you go back to 2014, when the Ukrainian govt began a heavy handed approach (ie, killing civilian protesters in the east) to quell dissent.
Very true. And Biden admin seems to enjoy poking the Bear and stoking the Dragon without thought or strategy to what that could mean to engage in a WW3.
I have high regard for Mr. Hanson and consider him a gift from God to humanity. Articulating complex world matters in a clear, interesting and fascinating manner. Huge appreciation for this channel. Thank you gentlemen.
Why doesn't my own country (France) have one single politician of John Anderson's calibre? As for VDH I reckon he is the greatest intellectual of our times.
This interviewer is great! He sets the stage with a thoughtful question, then lets the interviewee speak and fully develop his thoughts. I wish we had more of this.
He was a leading politician, even lead the "conservative" party at one stage ...it is probably his integrity that contributed to his foreshortened political career.
It's real simple: *if the US regime and Ukraine simply honor their agreements then the fighting would stop TODAY.* The ball has been in their court for over 8 years and for 8 years Russia’s security interests were not recognized.
@@gastronomist They are a russian bot. There are no agreements. Russia has broken the UN Charter as well as the Budapest Memorandum of 1994. They think/try to propagate that Russia invading a neighboring country is a "defensive move".
Woah did you just say Putin invaded another country? The official story is that this is a "situation". I need your GRU badge number, I am going to report this.
An excellent interview. Informative and educational. Thank you. Hopefully people will listen and then think about activities and changes, many of which are not legal.
I wonder why an intelligent and conservative thinker like VDH won’t just take Putin at face value. How does Hanson know that Putin is “shocked, puzzled and confused” about anything.
Kent, I do have to agree with you - He may have more info than he says here, but no one what’s truly in depths of the heart of man - Foreign relations is a chess game, although Hanson is very good at it, it’s still chess none the less
Putin has never acted on impulse...never...he has often said in public that geopolitical matters have a mathematical logic to them....this military campaign wasn't dreamed up 2 months ago rather it has been on Russia's strategic drawing board for quite a few years. Putin and the Russian elite thinkers around him are strong and well versed geopolitical chess players and thus have taken bold action (which is incorrectly viewed as opportunistic and somewhat emotionally driven by many so called experts) based on all the pieces, positions and potential maneuvers of his US/NATO opponents. Notice how Russia has barely responded in word or deed to all the monumental sanctions etc? ...Barely a word, that should give everyone pause... The Russian's knew the potential consequences but they did it anyway; why? ...Desperation? No! Pressure? No! Were tricked? No!.... I suspect that it is the US deep state and warmonger neocons of Congress that have fallen into their own trap and the consequences will be their undoing.
Chechnya, Ossetia, Crimea were all jumped out by 🇷🇺 & the west had same reaction=not much!But Vlad & 🇷🇺 got so much to worry about west wanting to move into that bleak & uncomfortable place!Maybe Putin does have something to worry 4,but not like any friendly nations of🇺🇲got worries.I wouldn't want to depend on🇺🇲4 backup, especiallyw/the🖐job govt🇺🇲has now!
Remember when Russia put nuclear weapons in Cuba and America threatened Russia with nuclear war. What’s the difference with nato putting weapons into Ukraine
What an extraordinary session with Victor Davis Hanson. So much wisdom and insight, informed by history which we continue to ignore - we don't teach it, we don't refer to it, and consequently we don't learn from it... so we repeat it. I just wish, as an Australian that John Anderson would run again for Federal Parliament. This country desperately needs people of calibre who can bring civil, intelligent, wise and experienced dialogue to debate on policy, on the future of democracy and the direction Australia needs to go in. Ukraine has woken the conscience of the world but I wonder, as Niall Ferguson said in another interview with John Anderson, will the West's 'attention deficit disorder' kick in and in three months from now we've moved on from Ukraine and the lessons there, will Germany ramp up its spending on NATO. The West has weakened itself and Conservatism has become a dirty word. Not a good outlook. But thank you John Anderson for flying the flag. These interviews as so valuable.
Victor Hanson has a remarkable ability to compress time and make connections between our current times to the challenges the acients experienced in their democracies. I don't agree w/ his pro-Trump stance, but I'm hardpressed to disagree with his other views about the West's decline, decadence, smugness, etc. We need more voices like his and conversations like this one to continue to advocate sanity.
I think Trump is everything that the Left elitists hate. He's not all that well educated and he's ineloquent in his speech. He's too much like the average laborer such as the truckers in Canada who Trudeau and the rest look down their noses at. These leftists are like the aristocrats of old that thought that anyone who works with their hands is member of the unwashed masses.
Long a VDH fan since I first read his book on Athens and Sparta but I am truly impressed by Mr Anderson. An intelligent, articulate, deeply thoughtful person and wait - he's a politician! Not fair Australians got this as Deputy PM and we get as VP - Kamala.
Thank you for the level of articulate discussion of very pressing & complex issues that both of your countries and in deed every nation on earth who value individuals right and freedom of self direction are facing. Though I heard very little debate between the two of you, both of you are more succinct yet thorough than most politicians of any party. I look forward to reading your new book.
And they provoked Russia on September 10, of this past year. That was the straw that broke the camels back. Russia will not allow countries such as Portugal and North Macedonia to make decisions as to the security of southern Russia. The ideal of globalism, founded on the premise that liberal democracies will live in peace and harmony, was one great fiction.
@@65TossTrap yes but not actually formally joined NATO. Putin's war against Ukraine will most likely result in more countries wishing to join together to better defend themselves from Russia's unprovoked aggression.
I appreciate these insightful conversations. If we conservative Americans don’t stand up for our Culture and let our fellow Americans know the truth about what is truly happening to our society then we may lose our ways of life.
I have admired Mr. Hanson for years now. I highly recommend his most recent book. It is not an easy read. Be prepared to study it carefully, take it in strides, and do not gloss over terms or situations which do not easily appear in your range of view. His message is critical to our survival as a nation as well as the world around us. I know of no other knowledgeable man with such a breadth of information at his disposal who yet chooses to present all that he delineates with such calm clarity and objectivity. He has an awareness of so many points of view that it's uncanny. Most of the time we encounter a man with a fount of knowledge who is all too eager to tell you which direction to take and that his conclusion is the best or most accurate one to adopt. Mr. Hanson is different. He is a true teacher. He is not a savior. He provides readers and thinkers with multiple senses of awareness and merely hopes that people make choices wisely.
So knowledgeable! He looks down through history and sees comparisons to current events. Really thinks issues through, unlike this administration. I also admired his respect for and honoring of his ancestors.
Ireland 🇮🇪 listening attentively to your two great minds.Thanks for making our lives interesting and adding to our knowledge banks. May your greatest gift , your health , be always with you both.
When this thing started, I was heavily leaning towards supporting Zelensky just because of my lifelong distrust for Russians, but after a few days, I noticed that everyone who lies to me every single day, Soros, Biden, Media, UN, US government, Obama, and all the rest, were all desperately trying to convince me that the only reasonable choice was to back Zelensky. I know for a fact that all those people don't want what's best for me, and most are actively trying to destroy my country and everyone in it. I can't recall any instance in which Putin has lied to me, he's never lectured me about how I should live or what I should think, and I've never seen him take any action to try to destroy my country. So how reasonable is it to blindly obey all the people who I know are lying to me, and condemn the one guy in this who hasn't?
You need to understand that it was under Obama that Crimea was lost to Russia. Putin want stop at Ukraine. He wants to reform the old USSR. Ukraine has large supplies of gas an precious metals. More than that is the vast plain of the most fertile soil in the world. The 2nd largest country in Europe behind Russia. With Ukraine Russia would control 30% of the world's Wheat an grain. They could weaponize food. Also Kyiv is home to Antonov Design Bureau. Capability to build Commercial Aircraft. Built the largest Airplane in the world. The Russians bombed it. But Ukrainians have the expertise that Russians don't possess. We don't need to let it fall. Fortunately Trump gave Ukraine Javelin shoulder mount weaponry to repel the invasion until NATO an USA could send more weapons. They have woke up to the importance.
Great Podcast . VDH is a great thinker and a wise man . He expresses his ideas by using language and examples most can understand and relate to . I actually wrote notes so I could review all the ideas and concepts brought out . Australian was an excellent monitor . 😊😊
Hi from Russia. I see you happy to explain Putin moves in your own terms. Now a view from our side of battlefield. 1. My country quite obsessed with sovereignity. For reasons too complicated to eхplain here. Russia is only chunk of planet never ever colonized by West. West who take everything on its way. Up to every tiny island in Pacific. We refuse to bow to global hegemon in peak of his might, btw - thats why we here. 2. We also know - West always expand to the East. Pure geography. Once West stops internal squabbles and united - he start pushing eastward, eventually stumbling into Russia. Nothing new, really. Thats why neutral territory between us is so important. No buffer - no trust. 3. Ukraine and Russia (or better say Kiev and Moscow) share same legacy. We are brothers, yeah. And we are rivals because of this. Moscow - a lesser brother - unite Russian lands into unitary state. Kiev have same rights, and he is older and more "noble". Being unable to fight Moscow face to face - Kiev historically appeal to external powers for help. Countless times bring invaders in our common home. Poles, Swedes, Turks, Germans, now Americans. Again, nothing new here. Moscow evaluate such behaviour as dangerous separatism. Also Moscow thinks Kiev spoiled by West. Contaminated in some sense. And must be isolated and cured. --- This is basics.
Russians genocides 🇺🇦 Khulak farmers resulting in mid1930's famine deaths gives 🇺🇦 good reason not to want relation w/🇷🇺.Now as far as🇺🇲& the west being"slippery"=equally as is your mother 🇷🇺
@@paulzx5034 they both go out of their way to find conflict.Southeast part of delineated🇺🇦is pro eastern & northwest is anti-Russian.Think they would be w/partition to save lives?(🇺🇦won't brook that &🇷🇺will not back down now)
To quote Biden, "C'mon, man." NATO never presented an offensive threat to the Soviet Union or Russian Federation. It simply doesn't have the military power to do so. It is the USSR, and now the Russian Federation, that has, for over 40 years, named its annual military exercises "Zapad." As I'm sure you know, that means "West." What is to the west of Russia?
On Germany's response - I've seen very few people comment on the inherent irony of it - that for the first time in well over a century, Germany announced that it's rebuilding and expanding it's military, and the whole of Europe didn't react with a sense of dread and a collective moan of "Oh God, not again" - but instead with what seems to be approval and a collective sigh of relief.
Hanson's knowledge and wisdom are always impressive. He has this special capacity for discovering hints in the popular culture - empirical evidence - that support his intuitive analysis. The bit about the stereotypical russian villain in Hollywood movies, and the way by which the chinese were able to profit from the woke agenda, are great examples. His noticing also of the subtle shift in posture by China is something that the vast majority of pundits have not taken notice of.
The USA has a MONROE DOCTRINE! Does anyone remember the Cuban Missile Crisis? Do you remember how you murdered Allende in Chile (1973)? How did you change governments in Guatemala (1954), Bolivia (1971), and Nicaragua (1990)? The size of Ukraine is similar to France, so it takes at least one week for the tanks to arrive.The campaign goes very well. The USA and the EU are funding neonazi groups in Ukraine, like the Right Sector. The Americans demand Putin accept a NATO Ukraine with nuclear missiles that can reach Moscow in a few minutes. Usual American propaganda. It's a DISGRACE to hear HANSON saying all this nonsense.
@@kingpriapatius5832 What a bunch of nonsense. Were you handed that on a piece of paper or do you have it ready to copy and paste? I love it when people try to legitimize actions by pointing to the actions of others. There's a difference between 2022 and the midst of the Cold War, and the Monroe Doctrine had to do with every European country in 1823. That's 200 years in case you have problems with math. Is there a "Putin Doctrine" that says not even Ukraine's neighbors are allowed to send them weapons to defend themselves? Poland and Hungary aren't allowed to get involved? Boris Johnson is one of the biggest critics of Russia and the UK isn't part of the EU anymore.
@@JeepersCreepers2013 The invasion of Iraq and George W Bush inspired Putin clearly. That's recent. The fact that USA covers up their aggression to make them look more civilized ostensibly does not ultimately subtract from our dark past and present.
