The war has become more complex precisely because Putin failed in his initial shock-and-awe effort
Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of “The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won,” from Basic Books. You can reach him by e-mailing authorvdh@gmail.com. His columns appears Sundays in the Review-Journal.
But the expeditionary armies of a multi-ethnic, disparate Russia have never done well abroad.
The prophets of the new world order sowed the wind and they will soon reap the whirlwind.
We should not rehash the past but learn from it — and thereby ensure Putin is defeated now and deterred in the future.
Elite ideology divorced from reality impoverishes people and can get them killed.
In the end, it doesn’t matter whether Biden was deluded or diabolical.
Hillary Clinton by now is an old master of scandals. Her lifelong oeuvre is vast.
If anti-communist Cubans by the millions were illegally crashing the southern border, would they be welcomed in as are those from Mexico and Central Americans?
There is an Orwellian moral to U.S.-Russian relations over the past 13 years. The American Left has appeased Russian autocrats.
Where does this entire mess leave America? In trouble.
As we head into the 2022 midterm elections, who will stop our descent into collective poverty, division and self-inflicted madness?
A skeptic might suggest terror over the impending midterms finally made the left face reality.
The Left masks its own revolutionary propensities by projecting them onto its opponents.
Never in history has such a mediocre, but self-important and ungracious generation owed so much, and yet expressed so little gratitude, to its now dead forebears.
