Victor Davis Hanson: Why Millions Fell for Iran’s Biggest Lie

The Western media has sided with a fascistic regime that had one election forced down their throat. They elected Hamas who killed their rivals in the Palestinian Authority through them off buildings. It's the sickness that we are suffering. I never expected that sickness would extend to people who were conservative, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker, anticipate the defeat of Donald Trump. They want El Saeed to win over Michael Rogers and Michigan. You're going to be on the side of mass murder. Hello, and welcome. This is Victor Davis-Hansen in his own words. And this is our Friday edition where we do a news roundup. We've got lots on the international scene. Victor will be talking about Trump and the AI heads of AI CEOs and Iran. And a hijacked plane coming into Israel, which is sort of adjacent to the Iran issue. And then we'll turn to Canada as well. So stay with us for those stories, and we'll be right back from these messages. 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You can find all things Victor links to his books, his articles, and his podcasts are all linked there for ultra-subscribers. So if you subscribe for a year, you can get the ad-free podcast and then also two articles and an independent video for our ultra-subscribers. We'd like to encourage that. Victor is the Martin and Nilly Anderson Senior Fellow in Military History and Classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsley College and his most recent book is also available at his website. You can either just purchase it from Amazon or you can purchase an autographed copy. So go to the front page of the website and in the right-hand column on a laptop view, you'll find that offer. And be sure to scroll down if you want the autographed version and the name of that book is the counter-revolution and it is an account of Donald Trump from when he left office and January 6 of 2020, all the way until he re-entered office. Victor, did you have anything more to say on that? No, I do. I mean, it's all-- Everybody says that the midterms are lost, but the title of the book is The Fallen Rides. And people don't realize three things about Trump, while he will rise again, even if he loses the midterms, which one is he's indomitable, his physical, you know what I mean, he never gives up. He's a force of nature. Number two, he has embraced issues that are 70, 30. Most people want a closed border, most people think there's two genders, most people don't want men and women's sports. Most people want fossil fuel, exploration and development. Most people think that the crime rate is at an all-high time low and that's good. And for all the gloom and doom of affordability in terms of poverty rates, high-family income, GDP for the third, they're all good. He's on the right side of the issues, and then third, he's been given a great gift by this new Islamist socialist axis alliance, because they are on the 30% of all the issues. And eventually, they can't scrub all their social media past, and they can't censor everything they say. Some of them are pretty good at it, but we'll wait and see. Remember, the socialists have not won a single statewide office yet. They may, but not yet. All right, Victor, so let's turn to our first issue. Big story this week is Trump invited all the CEOs of the AI companies and their attendant leadership in to sign a voluntary pledge to four things. Internal controls, dedicated teams inside monitoring and independent external audits of these companies and committees on their board of directors to oversee their AI development companies together had about $10 trillion in market capitalization. It was amazing. I don't think we'll ever be back in the same room again. Gosh, I'd mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, David, you have all of them there, and what he was doing, he said, "I'm going to fight for you." And what he was saying was, has a good historical parallel. He was saying that he was not going to let the Europeans tax them, censor them. He's not going to let Canada put a 5% tax on them, but there was a condition that they have to use their skills. It was an excellence to promote America pre-eminence, and they're doing that. And the AI situation, as he envisioned, is like nuclear weapons accusation, acquisition. It's a terrible thing if it's used wrongly. Nuclear weapons, as I said to Jack, can be used productively for power. You can't trust any international organization, not the League of Nations in the 1920s, not the UN now, not the international criminal court, not the Paris Climate Accord, not the world. You can't, because they're not democratically or consensually governed. Hey, so it depends on the United States to do two things. To be pre-aminate, and to be the custodian of this essential, but also if used wrongly dangerous new technology, like nuclear weapons, and to deter those countries who are developing it, by being always two steps ahead of them, and to warn them, if you think you're going to use AI on North Korea, or if Iran is still there, I don't think it will be, then you're going to pay a heavy price. So that's what he was telling them, and you cannot slacken off. If it was like exactly what FDR did, Dr. New Deal is dead, and Dr. War is alive. That's what he said in 1941, right after Pearl Harbor. So we called him Dupont. He called him William Newtson from GMM. He called in Henry Kaiser from Kaiser aluminum and cars and things. He called in Henry Ford, and he said, "All I care about is, this is FDR speaking, the socialist. I want the output," and he wrote on a piece of paper, "50,000 tanks." They didn't get that, of course, it was impossible per year. But I need 10,000 bombers. It was just fantastic numbers, and they said to him over the war production board, said to him, "You understand what you're asking. We would have to make an assembly line and plow right through Alameda, and make a assembly line of liberty ships. We can do it. We can produce one every two days, but you're going to let me do that." Henry Kaiser said, "I got to go out to Willow Run and make a million square foot and tear up everything." You want me to do that? He said, "I don't care what you do as long as it's in the United States interest in we win the war." And they did. And the United States outproduced all of these five other major belligerents in the war. And that's what Trump is doing. And there's no ideology. All these people probably at one point in their careers, if not now, don't like him and vote it against him. But they know what he's going to do, and they know that the socialist alternative, as voiced by AOC and Elizabeth Warren, is socialism, control, stop it, let the Chinese, or somebody be preeminent. And the final thing is, this whole AI hysteria that was ginned up in September, that were on the edge of the apocalypse, I said earlier that is always a democratic trope in an election year to scare us and say the incumbent Republicans, or the Republican candidate, is going to destroy the world. Nixon was going to have a-- he didn't do anything with the population bomb. We were all going to be overpopulate in 1968, 1983, before Reagan was going to be up for real action. He's going to give us a nuclear winner where we can't see the sun, so Carl Sagan said, just like Paul Erdix said. And then it was Al Gore in the election year 1992, "Oh my gosh, the earth's in the balance. We're going to all of our seaside homes are going to be flooded." And then you keep going. And that's what they're doing. They're trying to say that AI and the Donald Trump is going to unleash AI and destroy us all. What they're really saying is, we want him to stop because already the Atlantic Federal, Atlanta Federal Reserve Board is projecting 5% GDP growth, even with high oil prices. And if oil prices get down, and yesterday 98% of traffic got through, when they hit $60, the oil companies will have no choice but to lower the price of gas. $60, oil gives you $3 or $250 a gallon in there. And when that happens, this economy is going to take off, and I think it's going to take off anyway. Today, the price of oil got down for a moment to $85 a barrel. It was up to 105. So you're going to see a boom, and that's what they're afraid of. That AI is going to really rocket this economy, and it already is. So they want to stop it. Do you think Donald Trump has been effective in bringing all these guys into the White House in terms of PR to address that left-wing effort to make it a hysteria? Yeah. Basically saying, these are your people, not mine. They were all Obamaites. All these people on the stage today, this was the subtext. Every time an Obama person left office, and he wanted to make a million dollars a year, these people hired him because they were all left-wing. But then they found out that when you play with socialist and leftists, they don't like you. They hate you. So I'm quoting from Mark Andreessen. He basically said, they brought it in a room, and they said, "You're going to do this, and you're going to do this, and you're going to do this, and we're going to regulate this." And he walked out and said, "They're picking winners and losers based on their obssequiousness to Trump." He doesn't care if they hate his guts. Elon has had two ballots of a hated Trump. He doesn't care what Bezos says. He doesn't care what Mark Zuckerberg says. All he wants them to do is to make the United States a pre-eminent. And as I speak, as I keep saying, and somebody wrote me there, David, we heard it already. Yes. But I want to remind you one last time, that of the top 10 digital media, software, bioengineering, satellite, space launches, AI, eight to 10 of them, eight in one category. But nine and all the others are American. They are dominating. And that's why China ran over here and said, "Please, please, can I come to the White House?" I really wanted to partner with you with AI. Let's work together, meaning even my spies can't steal enough stuff from you. And you're always one step ahead of my 5,000 students sending stuff back every day. So it's a historic development. But Trump, as I said earlier, is a tragic hero. He has a methodology and an expression and a vocabulary and a manner of doing things that turn off people, just like Shane was a gunslinger, just like the magnificent seven was time to get out after they solved the problem. Just like Gary Cooper had nowhere to go but out after he saved Hadleyville in high noon. And that's what Donald Trump's, "He has a set of skill sets." Was that from "Taken?" I have a set of unique skill sets, and Lee Wilson said, "And I will hunt you down." Yes. And he has a unique set of skills, but they're incompatible with manners and politeness and compatibility. And so he is the bull that breaks through everything. And then he does these achievements. And then like every tragic hero from Sophocles to John Ford, he says, "But I'm just doing to do the east wing so that it's going to be beautiful. I'm not even going to, you're going to all use it. And you probably won't even let me give me any, yes, that's your role." And he says, "But Greenland, it's a much better deal we've ever had since 1951. Everybody's happy, Denmark's happy, Greenland's happy." Yes, but you used a methodology in a vocabulary that was not Marcus Aqueen's very rules, Donald, to get that. But look at NATO. Obama said they needed to pay 2%, clean everybody dead, George Ruppie. Yes, Donald, but they didn't threaten not to honor Article 5 unless they could require. But look at Canada, they're going to comment and they're going to get whether they're 50 billion dollars surplus in there. Yes, Donald, but they didn't say that they wanted Canada to be a 51st state. So your bombastic effective art of the deal that solves a problem allows us who are now relieved of the problem. The leisure and margin of error to say, "I can't believe that I welcome in that methodology. Who does Shane think he is?" Remember that scene in Shane where they're dancing and somebody says Wilson is here, the gunslinger of Jack Poins. "I don't know what we can do about him," and Shane said, "I know Wilson. I know who he is. I think I know it." "Why do you know? I don't take with that. I don't like people at Kerry Guns." In other words, "Hmm, let me think about this." Shane knows him. Shane's fast. Shane can probably handle the problem. And then I can condemn him even more and then leave in the problem solved. Like, "I feel more leaps superior," and that's the sense of a tragic cure. And by the way, I can have a plug. I kind of, that was a theme of the fall and rise of Donald Trump. Oh, yes. We need our gunslinger in order to have our peace, but we don't like that guy. We do. We do. We like somebody to tell the truth without varnishing it and say, "This was the problem." And if you want the problem solved, you're going to need a guy like Tom Hohman. Yes. It's not going to be solved by New Yorkers and all these other duplicitous blank blanks. Yes. And we need a guy like Donald Trump. And we hear nothing about the border these days because Tom Hohman has- That's exactly what a tragic cure is. Thought that theater? I thought, "Well, what happened to the border?" It's completely closed. There's zero illegal aliens. There's a big caravan coming because they think that the Democrats are going to win the Congress because they don't understand our system, but they're not going to get in. And Donald Trump, somebody in the administration said, "This is so unfair. We saw this existential problem. Nobody's ever solved it. Nobody ever had zero." And we're actually deporting people. And why are they attacking ice when there are Hispanic people who are middle-class patriots at all these wealthy white women are out there calling them names and spitting on them and waving fallacies- it's just terrible. Yes. And that's why because we, he, solve the problem. And that gave us the leisure of saying, "Well, there's not 10,000 people coming today. I don't have to vote for Donald Trump. He solved the problem." And that's human nature. It's tragic. And that's why he's a tragic hero. Yeah. Well, Victor, let's welcome back our sponsor. I was going to say our Saturday sponsor, but our Friday sponsor, my Patriot Supply, Winter Storms, have a way of exposing how quickly normal life can stop. The power goes out. The furnished stops, roads become dangerous, stores get picked over. And once the storm is already on top of you, your options shrink pretty fast. Our friends at my Patriot Supply, like the rest of us, saw this firsthand last winter. When Major Storms threatened their Vesta, V-E-S-T-A, indoor heater and stove became one of the hottest preparedness items of the season. It sold out again and again as people rushed to prepare at the last minute. That's exactly why they created the Winter Prep Bundle this year to help you get ahead of the storm this time. It includes 114 servings of emergency food with real meals you can count on. 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And they said, "How dare you speak of your father that way? How dare you speak of your mother given?" So my mother was very attractive and she was a judge, and she was in an all-male court, and there was a good friend of hers, but he was a very prestigious judge, and he had a habit of chasing her when she were, and pinching her, and snapping her, I, I was zero strapped, I didn't say braw, right? So she would come home and tell my father. That is a bad habit, by the way, just so with the audience's nose. So my father said, "Do you want me to take care of it or not?" I thought, "Here comes the tragic cure, and that was my dad." So I had just come home from college, and my mom said, "He's going to come up today when I go to, this is in the morning, and he's going to, this judge is going to do this because we have a judicial meeting, and he'll come into my quarters, and he'll, my judicial court is locked the door, and then I'll have to fight him on." And my dad took, to quote, "Douseboot, not this day." So he said to me, "You here, Victor, you're here, you're going to come," and she said, "Please accompany him, please accompany him. I don't know what he's going to do." And I said, "Well, you mentioned it, he'll solve the problem. It may not be the way you want to solve it." So we go up there, and he says, "Hi, I'll just use it false name. Hi, Bill, Judge Smith, how are you? Come on in, Bill, we went to his quarters, and they had these, kind of like this high, not too high. Oh, my dad weighed two 25, and he could bench press 400 pounds when he was 50, he was 64. Big sweet." So he said, "I got to ask you, do you feel that my wife likes that? Your wife? Well, that's just his hands, and we're not. We're on for all first names." He said, "Okay, do you think Pauline likes that?" And he said, "What? What? I was just being a little frisky." So he said, "Well, I'm going to be a little frisky." And he picked him up, and he put him over his head, and he put him up there with his legs dangling. And he looked at me, and he goes, "How am I going to go?" And he said, "Well, I'm not going to tell anybody I did that, and you won't tell anybody about it, but you're a judge, and you're very smart. And I have a feeling you'll figure out how to get down." And then he walked out, and he knocked on my mom's door. He didn't want to talk to her. He said, "The problem is solved." She said, "Thank you." And she came home. She said, "He chumped off." Office think he could have been hurt. The problem is solved. She goes, "Well, those met, you didn't have the problem is solved." And he never did that again. And every time he came over to our house for dinner, he was a gentleman in sober and judicious. And when my mom, being what I'm trying to point out, she would say, "Well, Bill, did you really have to do that?" And she said, he said, "You said stop it, stop it, stop it, and it didn't work. I stopped it." She just, "I know, but your methods, it just, he's a judge. It's over with. It's stopped." And that's what he was, that was his whole life. He solved things like that. And everybody wanted him to solve the problem. And he did it every time. And he was on popular when he did. He was the sweetest guy in the world, but people would come to him because he was big and he was courageous. And that was one thing that I remember. I said to him when he was dying, he said, "I don't know if I've been a good dad. I said, "You taught me courage." And that's the most. Aristotle said, "That's the most." Without courage, there's no weather virtues. Because you can't have them. Because they're all theoretical, only courage. So ever since then, I've always tried to be friend people, in some ways, and go out in a limb. Not that the stakes were very small, but he does that. He did that all the time. But once you do those methods and then you're kind of, "Well, will you please leave?" I thought my mom was going to say, "You and Victor have to go out to lunch now. We'll see." Because she knew what was going to happen. But you know what happened? He never told one person. And I'm saying it now because I'm not giving him his name. I'm sure that justice is new who it was. But he never said anything. And my mom never said anything. And my father never said anything. And the next time my dad was so sweet and nice to him when he saw him again. But he never mentioned it. And that guy did not mention it. Yes. The making of a gentleman, Victor, you have yourself a short tale. He was about 65 when he learned gentlemanly manners. It's never too late. We're all learning something every day. All right, Iran. Let's turn to it. It looks like internal strife is increasing, not because the protesters out there, although there are some, the women are openly defying the hijab universities. But even their administration knows it because they've increased patrols and checkpoints in fear of the protests from universities. For all you people who are worried and have sworn the war is lost, Robert Kagan, the whole left wing media, what are you going to say when the people rise up? Three things are going to happen. And they're not necessarily mutually exclusive. Number one, the people are going to rise up. And this time when they try to kill them, the US will add air support. Number two, they are so desperate for a deal. Today they said, we have a deal. We have a deal. You can't trust anything they say, but they will basically give most of us what we want. And it won't be worth anything. And number three, they will have a final fireworks October surprise. We'll call everybody up. How many, how many drones you have in that mountain over there? How many, do we don't we have a tunnel over there somewhere with six more missiles? We want them all to go at the Saudi oil field or something. And when that happens, they will, he will unload on them and they will be destroyed. I don't mean, I mean, conventionally, they're the regime. So it's going to be like Greenland, it's going to be like the NATO problem. It's going to be solved, but it's not going to be solved in a way that's going to bring credit. It's the most existential problem the United States has faced since the Cold War. Lunatic regime that's going to get nuclear weapons and whose terrorists dominate the entire Middle East, terrify every Arab government that has Shia Arab minorities in it. It's going to be solved, but it's going to be solved very quickly. And I'm sure the people who say that Donald Trump was a warmonger and a war criminal and was a forever war left and right. Tucker says he should be impeached. He should be satanic. He loves nuclear weapons. I'm sure they're all going to say that when the people overthrow this government or this government dissolves that it wasn't, had nothing to do with Donald Trump. It had to do with their criticism of Donald Trump. Well, in adjacent to that, did you see that there were passengers that rescued a plane? It was going from Dubai to Israel, Tel Aviv, and it was taken over by a terrorist who was one of the pilots, and the passengers rested the control of it. There were pilots among the passengers, rested control of it, and landed it safely. There's just preliminary happen early this morning, as I speak. I think we'll get the whole story. You really don't want to predict what the whole story will be, but from the fragmentary evidence to do so far, I think you can come up with two or three legitimate suppositions. One, any flight that leaves an Arab country, like even from moderate Dubai to Israel, there are Israeli security on that flight, and one of them or two of them know how to fly it. There are probably ex-Israeli pilots, right? Military. So they not only know how to fly a plane, they know how to fly a plane in danger. From what we can tell, as you said, the captain attacked the co-pilot, thinking that my mission is to hijack the plane and ram it and kill everybody and ram it into an iconic Israeli building when we get there 30 minutes later. Yeah, we could guess Tel Aviv and Tel Aviv. Yes, it's good. And so the Israelis thinking way ahead of them have people on every one of the flights. And number two, to enact that, I have to kill the co-pilot. So there's no other body that can grab the plane, and those cabins are locked. So I will be the only person here. The co-pilot is dead or injured, and they can't get me, and I'm just going to do what Muhammad Ata and those guys did. But what they didn't know is that there were security and Israelis are not normal people in the sense they just said, "Oh my gosh, we're hijacked, we're all dead." They stormed and they broke through, and they rescued the co-pilot. And I guess they killed the pilot, and they got him out, and they had dropped about 12,000 feet in a minute. And the sheer stress on the airframe broke the rudder in the back of the tail. So there was no way really it was kind of wagging like a dog's tail. And these pilot or pilots, who, Israeli, I assume, were able to, as they do with fighter planes, use the wing flaps and rotate, I mean, you know, wiggle back and forth and stabilize the plane and they landed in a Saudi airport. Three, I would not be surprised if that pilot had some connection with a ram. I don't know how. And the same way I would not be surprised as the five would be, I don't know what we'd call them would be attackers of the RF, R-A-F-U-S base in England had ties to a ram. But because that's how a ram operates. And then they have, oh, we didn't do that. That's crazy. This guy was an Arab. He was SUNY. We have nothing to do with it. And then they brag, you know, infarcie among himself or how they did this. And we'll see what happens, but I would be very careful if I was them. If this is traced, I'll be candid. There's an election coming up in Israel. It's deadlocked. As anybody noticed that of the missiles they've sent the last five months, most of them, half of them went to the UAE, over 5,000 of them. And Kuwait, less, but substantial. And a few on gutter, they're ally, Saudi Arabia, Oman, but not Israel, not one on Israel. And Netanyahu is up for election, and he's under pressure. And they're promigating this conspiracy theory that he knew about in the UAE people told him which we discussed was not true, I think. So if this is traced that they tried to, the Iranians used an agent to try to destroy a whole plane load at 737 max, and then do so by ramming it into an iconic building, he'll attack them. He'll retaliate, and he'll get the entire support of the Israeli people in the United States. And Iran will be in big trouble because the Israelis have a different, they're in an, I don't like to use that word, existential, but they're in a life and death situation with no margin of error. So the Americans do, we have kind of a reluctance of targeted assassinations. Obama did 500 of them, but he was Obama, so they weren't going to criticize him. Even when he killed, I think three American citizens. But the Israelis have no compunction because it's an existential fight. So that's why they haven't hit Israel because the retaliation would take out the fourth and fifth year of their leadership. But if this is traced to them, Israel, they'll go after all of their grandies that are left running that country. And it'll be very interesting in the next few days to see what transpires. And it will ensure Netanyahu's re-election if that happens. Yeah. Yeah. Well, Victor, sort of connected to Israel and the point you made about all the hysteria around AI and all the moments before that the media created hysteria. There was a great column by Seth Mandel in commentary and he addresses the, I've read them a lot. Yeah. And he addresses. I never met him. He addresses all the lies about Israel in the Hamas war and he says this about it. The fact that every facet of quote genocide accusation against Israel has fallen apart along with the disintegration of numerous other false claims raises a serious concern. The debunking of the claims of genocide, deliberate starvation famine, mass targeting of journalists and others, plus the nearly having of the number of war dead that can reasonably be attributed to Israel means that the war that happened was entirely different from the war that much of the media consuming population thought happened. Therefore, the test put before the public is the following. Can these folks admit they were wrong about their whole impression of the war and acknowledge that they were fooled willingly or unwillingly by a global propaganda scheme on a scale we've probably never seen before. And he said this, or no, John Henikers said the same thing as you know, but. Well, I mean, they still believe this, the steel dossier was authentic. They still believe that Hunter Biden's laptop was not his, it was cooked up by Russians. They still believe the 51 authorities who swore that it was Russian disinformation or information, whatever the term they like to use. They still believe that they were telling the truth. Not one thing has happened to those 51 people. Not John Brennan, not James Clapper, not Leon Panetta, none of them. They still believe that Donald Trump went into a dressing room in the Bergendolf retail store in New York, which fit the plot perfect of a law and order episode. They still believe that. They believe all of that stuff and they're never going to say no because they're not empirical. It's a religion with them. They feel that Israel is evil, conservatives are evil, Trump is satanic, and any methodology you use to advance that thesis is perfectly justified on moral ground. So they're never going to do it, not once. And it's a funny kind of genocide when Israel was formed in 1948 that Arabs were 10% of the population and about three or four hundred thousand. And a genocidal regime that hates Arabs now has not 10%, but 20% and two million Arabs inside 1948 Israel. It's a pretty strange genocide that there hadn't been one Jewish person in Gaza when they attacked for 20 years. It's a pretty funny kind of genocide when before October 7, they were supplying between 10 and 20% of all the water, electrical power, and fuel into Gaza. It's a pretty strange genocide that they were providing food and vaccinations, etc. To the extent they weren't stolen by Hamas. And the weird thing about it is the Western media has sided with a fascistic regime that had one election forced down their throat. They elected Hamas who killed their rivals in the Palestinian Authority, threw them off buildings, took power, then executed any dissident, right, and then turned Gaza into a backward medieval Islamic conclave and then stole 20 to 30 billion dollars in foreign aid and built a labyrinth of terror subterranean under the ground and then sent 13,000 rockets into Israel aimed exclusively at civilian centers. And after all of that, and then sent 4,000 terrorists, 12 to 15 miles inside Israel, 1948 Israel, and then announced to 2,000 civilians, quote unquote, "Here is little sign cards you carry. It says, "Open your legs in Hebrew." And so we want you to rape them. We want you to mutilate them. We want you to desecrate them. And those 2,000 followed, and the 6 to 7,000 killed 1,200 people. And this is what our humanitarian on the left, our civilians, all support. That thuggish, fascistic, Nazi-like movement. And all the people who support it, it's just, I had a good talk with the historian David Landis, it'll be probably already heard, and he's pointed out that it is a mere amage of themselves. If you're a Turkish ancestry and you grew up in Turkey and you're Hassan Piker and you grew up with charges that your country murdered a million Armenians and burned up 50,000 plus Greeks in Smirna and occupied illegally 40% of Cyprus when they invaded it and know whether your country in the world recognizes that, not even North Korea or Iran or Russia or China, then you call other people that. If you're a mandami and you came from a settler colonial family that owned 60% of the GDP and you were 0.01% of the population, then you call Israel a settler colony. And if you're, early in Omar and your father was a colonel and a genocidal regime that killed 200,000 people and then fled before their victims could, you know, apply retribution to them and you fled to the United States, then you call this country the worst country in the world. And then you call Israel a genocidal regime, that's how it goes. And all of us as secure, prosperous, affluent, westerners say, "Oh, I feel so good about championing the underdog." Everybody, I have a little Palestinian scarf on. That's virtue signaling. I don't like those Jews, they're so wealthy, they're so powerful, all 10 million of them in Israel. And so that's the sickness that we are suffering. I never expected that sickness would extend to people who were conservative 'cause they had always been staunch supporters. But when I look at the glee with which Thomas Massey and Marjorie Taylor Green and Tucker anticipate the defeat of Donald Trump or the refutation of him and the defeat of Republicans in the midterm and the election of a democratic replacement in two years, and then the ostracism of Israel, it's pretty sick. And that's what they're thinking. They want El Saeed to win over microledgers and Michigan. Yeah. They like Montgomery, they really do. They like going on the view. Yes, in fact, if we were to look at Iran, they recently published a letter telling the U.S. population or the left, telling voters to punish Trump in the midterm. So they're on the left. They're on the left and the paleo right. You have one thing in common with the theocracy that killed 40,000 of its own people. They are appealing directly to you to be on their side. You're gonna be on the side of mass murderers. That's what they want. They want you to elect people like these millet curals or El Saeed, and they want enough Islamist socialists to intimidate what's left of the democratic party to cut off funds, and they even think in their fantasies they'll get 60 senators in the Senate, they won't, and then they will cut all money off, and then the United States will stop, and then that regime will go back and kill 40 or 50,000 more, and that's what you're for, and they know you're for it because now they are shamelessly and openly appealing to you to get out and vote, Democrat. I've never seen anything quite like it. Even in the Vietnam War, I know Jane Fonda got on the anti-aircraft, but that was kind of weird. I don't remember the hoax, well, maybe I do that, the anti-war movement would play into the hands of the Viet Cong in North Vietnamese. It did. - Yeah, well Victor, let's go ahead and welcome back our other sponsor, Allegiance Gold, the continued sponsor to Victor Davis Hanson in his own words. 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And we've got the interesting thing. New Kamikaze vehicles or zombie cars, they are unmanned. And so they are controlled remotely, generally speaking. And a recent attack has ended up with, obviously, no Ukrainian stead because of these things. 2,000 wounded are killed and captured of 250. Though I have to note that Russia still controls 20% of what was formerly the Ukraine. I've said this, and I've been misinterpreted. They had 41 million people. They're down to about 28 million people. Wounded laws, but mostly people evacuated. They went to other countries or to Europe, Western Europe. So they didn't have the manpower. They were kind of like Finland in the 39-40 Winter War. They were heroic and they stopped the Soviet Union for five months. And they obtained their autonomy. But when it was all said and done, Stalin ground them down, even though he lost 600,000 casualties. So this war was always predicated on a couple of principles in the Ukrainian mind. Number one, we're on the defensive. The offense needs three to one ratio historically to win. Number two, we don't want to take any country. We just want to stop them from taking us a much easier strategic agenda and goal. Number three, we're vastly outnumbered both economically in resources and manpower. But we are going to inflict so much damage on the Russians that will be politically impossible for Putin to continue. Now, here we are coming up to five years, right? It'll be five years in February of next year. And some of those suppositions are right. But they're never going to be able through their brilliant technology, which is brilliant, to get back that 20%. What they need to do is build a fortified line of defense, evacuate it, up their defense budget, and create the strongest military in the world, relatively speaking to their population. Get their population back, rebuild their economy, and prepare for the Russians doing it again. And then what they miscalculated on in the modern world, they thought even a dictator like Putin will not get three to 500,000 kill in a million wounded and ruin the economy and be subject of global sanction. But he will do that. He will do that because that's exactly what Stalin did. And that's exactly what Lenin did. They don't care about their own people. Putin knows one thing. I take the 20% of what I wanted as my first step. I'll try to get more later. And I'm still popular. I fail. Somebody in the KGB is going to kill me if I settle for anything less. They're going to say, you wasted all of that for that. So that's where we are. And I think Trump understands that. And the problem is that if you try to suggest that, you're called a sellout, a piezer, you don't like Ukraine. And for some reason, supplying Ukraine is important, but supplying them to take back the 20%. You're talking about-- they're going to have to lose another 200,000 dead to do that. They don't have it. And Europe is losing its belly for this. So it would be much better for a fortress Europe to consolidate along a vast border that is fortified and prepare for the next Soviet era, whether it's in the Baltics or Poland or wherever. But I think they should cut a deal if they can with Trump's help. But they don't seem to have any inclination of that. And then you add the idea that in the Western media, this is pitted as democracy versus dictatorship. But the problem is that he has suspended habeas corpus and has been there for about eight, nine years now, and most recently, five years without an election. And they're putting dissidents in jail. And they've got a lot of internal anger at the vast corruption because a lot of these Ukrainians became very, very wealthy with middleman arms deals. So it should be ended with a sovereign autonomous Ukraine. But they're going to have to give up something in addition to the Crimea and the earlier Donbass. Yeah. Well, Victor, let's turn to what the-- what our government will look like or what our country will look like if the left does take over to govern. In Minneapolis, a audit found that their new violence interruptors as they were called which were contracted out money to people to provide some replacement for the police was the idea that it has been fraught with fraud, favoritism, political influence, and they can account for the millions that they've put into that program. Hundreds of thousands have been taken off of Obamacare because they were unqualified in many of whom did not even have social security numbers which should be the easiest thing to check on people and then finally the third thing in the way the left rules is in Seattle we have another journalist who has found a daycare fraud in the small. We can make two or three generalizations based on the evidence. The left did not monitor this because they felt these people were left-wing people and they were poor and it didn't really matter if they stole money because they deserved it and they so they knew what was going on. It's no accident that Trump comes in and all of a sudden they say, "Wow, there was all that fraud. We didn't know it." And then by empowering these people with what billions of dollars, it's going to be four or five times the cost of the around war in California alone we're going to uncover. Then they recycle the money back in donations to democratic candidates. Number two, almost all of this is DEI, not all but almost all in Minnesota. When I look at the pictures and the names of the California fraudsters almost all of them are what they would call themselves on the 30% binariable press. So they had a get out of jail free card as long as the Democrats. Well this person was a person of color, this person was Islam, this person we're not going to dare that's our constituent. We're going to protect our own. And so that's how it thrived. I will predict though Tim Walls gave an interview about his governorship. Remember he was going to run for either a third term or presidency and then this thing blew up in his face and he's at the heart of it. He knew about it. And there are going to be people taught Blanche and the DOJ are going to call and they are doing it as we speak. They're going to call middle-level people in and say you did this and this and this. Here's your choice. You can spend 10 years in a federal penitentiary or you can tell us what Keith Ellison and Flanagan and Tim Walls had to do. And that's why he sounded very different. I thought when he was gave a speech the other day in interview and I thought he'll be just it was more like well kind of sort of drop the ball. You know I kind of kind of sorted since something was wrong and maybe maybe kind of maybe in retrospect I kind of maybe should have kind of with theory possibly perhaps done a little bit more. In other words he's very worried what will be like. And since the Democrats set the precedent that when you leave off as your fair game as we notice when they tried Trump as a private citizen I think they're going to go after him no matter what he did because I think his hands are all over it. I really do. And they're going to go after even more Somalis and they're going to go after people in California and that's what the Democrats are afraid of. Yes and the California fraud I have a suspicion will make the Minnesota fraud look like a bunch of pikers but so our government is doing good work on the fraud front. So let's go ahead and take a break Victor and then we'll come back and talk a little bit about Canada and tariffs. Stay with us and we'll be right back. 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You can find Victor on his social media. His ex handle is at BD Hanson and on Facebook at Hanson's Morning Cup. So Victor, as of Tuesday, Donald Trump has actually banned products from coming into the United States. Alcohol, dairy and motorcycles are the big ones. And we don't have a, I couldn't find any. Well, there's a lay breaking rumor that the Canadians said, please don't. We'll live our 250% tear off over a certain level of and open it up to American farm products. So we'll see. Carney, there are rumors that he's up for a time magazine's man of the year and Nobel Prize. For what? I don't know. He's wrecking the Canadian economy. But that was all what it was about. And Canadian steel is in big trouble. And Canadian alcohol is in big, big trouble. They're going to have many breweries, family businesses ruined. And they think the Canadians who got into this frenzy didn't made two strategic mistakes. They overlooked what Mark Carney and Justin Trudeau had done to their country. So they misjudged why their country was in a vulnerable position. Canadians, with all due respect, and I love Canadians, most Americans do, or we did until we started seeing elbows up and booing at the star-spangled banner. I don't think I'm going to go to Canada again. I've been there a lot and I liked it. But it's kind of a mass hysteria has taken over them. And what they didn't realize is the issue was not the 50 billion surplus alone. It was why Canada was in a position where there were certain things that were non-negotiable in a free trade northern hemisphere. If you believe in NAFTA and the iterations that followed NAFTA, then you would think that both sides would have kind of an agreement that maybe five to ten billion, either way, was permissible for a year or two. But roughly, it was going to be not just free, but fair trade. But when Canada started rucking up these 50 billion dollar surpluses and sometimes 60-70 year after year after year, coupled with the idea that they had promised in 2006, and formally, I think, in 2015, that they would spend a meager 2% of GDP and they had never done it. Never. Last year, they claimed they did, but if you look at the bookkeeping, I think a lot of it was salary and retirement and benefits. So why did they not do that? And the reason that they didn't do that is they have changed under Trudeau and Carney. The Canada we knew that signed the agreements to have equitable free and fair trade and to be a staunch contributor to Western defense as they were in the early post-called World War World. It doesn't exist anymore. Why doesn't it exist? Because 45% of that population is either first generation or second generation from Asia or Africa or Latin America, but most prominently probably from Asia. And many of those people are coming from societies that are illiberal compared to Canada. And they have enormous, or they claim they have enormous health, legal, housing, food needs that have to be subsidized by the Canadian, and they don't have that economy because they regulated themselves and they taxed themselves into uncompetitiveness. So if you're Canada and you have that immigration problem, that's social welfare problem, and you've turned your back on your treasure house of oil, they won't build pipelines between the problem only to the United States. And you're not using full your natural resources, Cole, you don't go into nuclear. It's green, green, zero net, all that stuff. And your fertility rate of indigenous Canadians is 1.25. And your GDP of.0 something is the lowest in the Western industrialized world. You don't have the wear with haul to step up and say, "I want to be a partner in North America." I'm going to pay 3%. You guys pay 4 and you're going to 5. I'll pay 3. Here's the ice pickers I'm going to make. Here are the jets that are going to patrol the North. We're going to help. We're going to be a partner, just like they used to. And you know what, some years you're going to have $10 billion or plus some years we are. But we're going to try to even it out. They can't do that. And because they can't do that and because of those decisions in six or seven key areas they made, Carney knows that he is a true dough person and he's continuing those globalist socialist policies and they don't work. And so he is trying to whip up national sentiment against Donald Trump and America and try to influence our midterms and so that we will get a left-wing government to keep subsidizing Canada's left-wing experiment, in trade, in defense. And you know, if you want to tax our companies for digital media to go ahead, we don't like them either, 5% on them, farmers, farmers, if you want to go ahead. And they don't know what they're playing with, they really don't. He doesn't know what he's created. He's almost single-handedly, week after week after week with a bunch of bot media people and crony cycle fans that surround him and a large foreign-born population that supports him. They have created an anti-American hysteria and they are doing something as a result of that, that are absolutely lunatic. They have 5% of their total trade with the most protectionist trading block in the United and the world other than China, which is the EU. And they really, really believe that because they hate Trump and the Europeans hate Trump, they're going to get a free market access into the EU and ship everything across the Atlantic Ocean. That's not going to happen. And if it would, it wouldn't work out very well. And then they really do think that the greatest cheater in the history of trade, Mercantile China, is going to be their partner for the next one. And they're going to cut us off. And we have about 5%. And so a lot of people in the United States say, "You're going to cut us off? These please continue," you know what I'm saying? And we can make up the four million barrels. But what are they going to do with the tar s, or they don't have the pipeline shed to get it out anywhere else. That's a multi-billion dollar investment. And then refine these that can refine it. So I feel really bad, you know, oh Canada, that was one of my favorite songs. I think I should rename it to Oh No Canada. Oh No! What are you doing? Oh No Canada. Yeah. I don't know. The Canadians. But they may come to their senses, apparently the Australians are worse even than the Canadians as far as that goes. No, no. If they keep pushing it, they're going to say, you know what Trump's going to do. He's going to say, I just think that if Americans go into Canada for six months, you should, and they can't really work, then you can't work here for six months. Or maybe you should have to have a visa to come here. There's a million of them here. A million. And, you know, everybody from what, Celine Dion, Neil Young, Dan Acroix, I don't even know who's Canadian who's not. Yeah, I know. They have flocked here, a million of them. And it's not two ways. You would think that a little country of 40 million would have a lot of, would have a lot less Canadians in here than a country of 340 million would have there. But it doesn't work that way. There's only a quarter million Americans living in Canada, but there's a million of them. It's so asymmetrical, and they're endangering that entire beneficial. Just as a reminder to our Canadian friends listening, you have right now, despite the bomb bathroom, Trump, the most favorable trade of any other country that trades with us. And 98% of your products were not included on the new tariffs until now. And you have the most generous visa and tourist and foreign rights to come in here, of any country in the world. And you're throwing all of that away because this globalist, former citizens of three nations has convinced you that Trump was mean to him. And he wants to be known as a person who stood up to Trump and got the Democrats back in power and got Alberta and Montreal's autonomous ideas out of their mind. That's what he's doing. And he's slick, and he's photogenic, and he's a duplicitous, pre-better character. He doesn't tell the truth. And he won't let people in his click go out and talk and press conferences, you know, open press conference. He won't. And there's a lot of Canadians that know that some of the most astute observers of what he's doing are Canadians. All right, Victor. So let's turn, or getting to the end, I know we have a little bit of a hard break, but I have two comments that you might want to respond to. Philip Hozier says, "With America still, Americans still facing too high inflation, it seems that the gas prices are at the heart. This perception of things is not getting better as Donald Trump promised to all Americans. I believe a two-tier oil price system will be the greatest reduction action we could take. Let the oil price float, as it always has, but American produced oil consumed in America be set 25% lower than the world market, with oil companies making 12 fold increase in profits for quarter one. No argument can be made that it will hurt the oil companies. This is a simple idea for a complex issue, Victor. Please tell me why this idea is a bad idea. Thank you for leading America's voice and good on-grid. Well, what he is basically saying is, if you're in California and you've got like a dollar, I think the federal tax is 50 cents plus and you're adding a dollar, basically, because you want, or maybe it's 50, it's going to be a dollar, and that's included with the blend. So the governments are acting to suppress the consumption. Well, if the oil were pumping almost 14 million barrels with the biggest producer of oil in the world, and of course we export some and we import some, so we don't just use it all here, but his point is, our oil companies in the United States can make a profit at probably $55 or $60 a barrel. So why are they charging Americans $90 to $100 a barrel when they have no transport cost or anything? And their answer is that we work on a global market. So if they can sell oil to Japan, rather than to California, they'll do it. And then LJ, it's all fungible. You go buy yours from Saudi at global prices, but that doesn't appeal to the American people. They don't buy that argument. They think this, it's our oil, it's our, why would you charge us prices based on conditions that don't exist in America? You have no transportation, the refineries are here. Why do you do this to us and wreck the economy? So what he's suggesting is government intervention, so you could say, well, just as we tax, some states tax oil to discourage consumption or to raise revenue, why don't they give us subsidy to lower the price of oil so that people can use it? I don't have a position on that, but I can see his argument. Yeah, I can see his argument, but can I answer that? Because somebody will just buy it and take it where they can make a higher price. With his subsidies, they'll buy 500 gallons, and they'll go down to Guptum, Canada, and sell it. So, but as I speak, we've gone down from 105 to 85, and the magic number is somewhere between 60 and 65 dollars, where they make about 10 to 20 dollars a barrel, and we get about $3 a gallon gas. That will come. It is coming because a lot of these people are so, and you're, they've been reading the Wall Street journal so, assiduously, and Bloomberg news and Forbes that all don't like Trump, and they all say that oil was going to go to 150, so you have people speculating that it's going to get worse when this regime falls, or when the straight is completely open as it was 98% today. That same mentality works in reverse. Oh my God, I got a bunch of oil I bought in future at 120, because I thought it was going to go up to 150. I was going to make 30 bucks. Now it's open. It's already falling to 85. I bet I can go to 65. I want to get rid of it before it crashes. So, you're going to see a lot of reverse speculation, and the price will come tumble very quickly. it decreases to 65 before and then next four and a half weeks I doubt it, but it will after the election. But they're going to, this is what is so or well and they're going to vote in people who are on record that they believe in the Obama Steve Chu philosophy of, remember Steve Chu said, I want to, he was our energy secretary. I want to get prices the same as they, in Europe, same as they were in Europe. That was $8 a gallon. They liked that. And that's what Elizabeth Warren likes. That's what Bernie Sanders likes. That's what AOC likes. They believe that climate change, she said, I guess the 10 years are up now. But they also, we're going to die in 10 years or roast or boil. But that's the people you should vote. If you're going to vote, then gas is going to get really, really high because they're going to tax it and use the money to subsidize green energy that's very inefficient. So go ahead and vote, but don't think gas is going to go on down under the Democrats unless the around war is over with under there. And that can happen. You could see the around war end in November after the midterms and then the price crashed because of what Trump did. And then you'll see a press conference between Tallerico and El Saeed and Mondami and all of them. They'll say, we lower the price of gas just as we promised in the midterm. So that's what they're thinking. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's going to go down. Yeah. All right. And then just one more, Carl HUN, H-U-Y-N-H. I'm not sure how to pronounce that, but asks, if you could recommend just two books that someone like me should read right now, what would they be? I would be incredibly interested to hear what books you believe are especially important for a college student studying politics and trying to better understand our country and the world at this particular point. Beside your own book, Victor Davis Hansen. Well, it's very timely now about the West why it's so wealthy and why everybody wants to come in. So the most I talked about in a podcast with Richard Landis, but the most influential book on me that I've read in the modern world, the modern times, was David Landis, the wealth and poverty of nations. And he explains very carefully that unlike crazy Jared Diamond, geographical determinism and unlike crack-pot racist, what determines whether a society is prosperous is certain things like transparency, market capitalism, protection of private property, copyright, independent judiciary. And then he further argues that those elements that make prosperity are largely Western phenomenon. And to the degree that non-Westerners are affluent, they adopt a Western paradigm. So Hong Kong or Singapore are now China in some avenues. And so it's a refutation that we are a colonialism. I mean, we stole everything. No, it has nothing to do with that. So it's a very brilliant book and it's very easy, it's big, but it's readable. And that would be something that I think you should read. I'm always a, I always like to read memoirs. So 19th century, the most interesting one I read to were US grant and WT Sherman's memoirs, the Civil War, they just put it in, they tell you why the North won, they tell you why the Confederacy couldn't win, they tell you what went wrong, but it wasn't inevitable once you read those stories. So that is, I think that's essential reading for the American. Yeah, I would get those two memoirs. And then you know, there's great memoirs, there's a short one by George Patton. War as I knew it, it's kind of interesting. It was kind of notes and things that he didn't write it, but they put it into Martin Gloomerson has two volumes on patent that are fascinating. To write Eisenhower Crusade in Europe is very interesting about what the decisions he made to win the war in Western Europe has a lot of, at the beginning by Dean Atchison, about Truman and the Cold War is fascinating. I can ask you in just to elaborate on this that why would you're, you're talking about all of these memoirs from generals or military men and military leaders. Why would they provide a better guide? Because they look at political decisions from a different angle. So we hear what Lincoln was doing, but when you read Sherman and Grant, you can tell that if McClellan had won the 1864 election, they would have lost the war. Or they can tell if Lincoln had not been elected, they would have never got back the Confederacy. So he was the only person, and they weren't big fans of him at the, when the war began. And the same thing with Eisenhower or when you read Patton, they didn't like Churchill and they didn't like FDR, but they, in their memoirs, you can see that the two of them had a strategic vision of how to win World War II, and the generals knew it and they tried to follow it. So that's one reason you read them. But if you're just interested in sheer politics, just politics, there's memoirs of, there's a three volume memoir of Henry Kissinger. It's about 2000 pages. I've read most of it and it's, it's brilliantly written and it's not outsourced to ghost writers. It's kind of Machiavellian, but he goes through the whole Vietnam War and it goes through and it's pretty depressing reading because we won the Vietnam War. And he tries to shield his own culpability in certain areas like I really didn't like the part about Cyprus, that he was pro-Turkish. But was this an autobiography by Kissinger, so it's autobiography? Free volumes, autobiography. So was Sherman, show was grant. And I'm just picking things that people wrote in their own hand. I wouldn't, I used to grow up on things that, you know, Arthur Schlesinger wrote, they're all, I don't, a thousand, all those books on Kennedy and FDR or Doris Kerns, good one. I thought the other day, you know, everybody, I was doing a lot of interviews. I'm doing four a day on the counter revolution. And someone said, well, you, are you a court historian? I said, no, that's not my issue. I don't live in Washington. I don't have anonymous sources. I just go by the record. There's some disadvantages of that because I don't have people in, you know, the Trump administration calling me up like Bob Woodward calls them up. Hey, Victor, if you portray me really good in that and anonymously don't quote me, I'll tell you the real scuttle butt. And then he trashes all of his, his enemies. That's what Bob Woodward does. And if he does it right, I guess he gets both sides of the story. But basically he tells me, if you don't talk to me, I'm not going to, and they're going to trash you. She might as well get your word out. And then he has no footnote, anonymous, kind of like. But if you look at left wing court historians recently, they don't have a very good reputation. Doris Kern, Goodwin, she was famous for what team of rivals, but all the people that Lincoln brought together that didn't like him or didn't like each other. And what did we find out? She was a serial plagiarizer. She was even kicked off. That's hard to do if you're left-wing icon from PBS and NPR for a while. Of course, they always forgive them. And then if you look at who's the great chronicler from the left of Bush or Biden, it's John Meacham, the Vanderbilt professor. He was the one I think that wrote the Phantom of the Opera speech for Biden. Well, he was writing for Biden, and then he was going on MS and stuff and just praising him, his own speeches to the sky. So I think he was totally disgraced. And then there was Michael Beschloff, remember him? He was every day. He had kind of a good reputation. And then he started saying things like, after the Marlago raid, it's proof that Donald Trump is a traitor and he will have to go to a Nuremberg like trial. Or if they win the 2022 midterms, they're going to go after kill people and go after people's children. He lost it. So I don't have, and when I look back at Arthur Schlesinger or others, they were very, there was no like Luke Niktor. Is it historian of Nixon, and I've read him, and he's very, you know, he's very fair. It's not that I'm partisan, but he is critical. So I don't trust most presidential historians when they write. And I surely wouldn't trust anybody on the left who's going to write another hit piece. There's about 20 of them on Trump. I've tried to read four or five of them, but they're just, you know, you read them. I mean, steel dossier, walls are closing in on Donald Trump. Steel dossier is, and it isn't minister. He will be impeached and convicted and out of office. That kind of stuff. It never happened. No, it sure didn't. Well, Victor, we are at a stop here. So thank you for your wisdom today. Last thing very quickly, I had a three-page letter from a reader who was a medical, in the medical field, psychiatric psychology. She was very angry at me because she said that I had given, I want to be very fair to her. I hadn't given a fair or comprehensive view to our listeners about Lindsey Plancy. And worse yet, I was assuming that my background in classics or something gave me the right to diagnose her and stuff. And all I want to say to her is I just used the terminology that was floating in the trial. Everybody, the judge, the prosecutor, the defense were talking about post-traumatic syndrome. But her central criticism was for you to be right that she was culpable for this horrendous act. She had to have a motive. But she had no motive, she said. There was no motive. She didn't want to get rich, she tried to kill herself. What was the motive? And I can just say the motive was the same as most women who kill their children. At some point in their life, they are tasked as a primary caregiver. When you have three children, I had three children and I had, at that point, both parents were working and I had to take on a lot of responsibility and farm and be a professor and be a writer. And it's a very stressful situation. For some people, they feel that you can get out of that stressful situation by eliminating your children and then you're free of your children. Now you can say that's crazy, but then you can also say anybody who's walking down the street and says, I need $10 and walks up to a person who shoots his blows at the top. He's crazy too. I don't see a difference, do you? She had a motive, it may be a motive that is sick and is bad, but her motive was to free her of the responsibilities that she had in some crazy idea that at once upon a time she didn't have those and now she won't have those and this I'll go further that based on other cases and the therapeutic society, she didn't really think that there would be severe legal consequences. And you know what? She came within one juror of being absolutely correct, there would have been none. Other than institutionalization for a while, but they would have made her a cause, a lab and she would have been out, you know what I mean? They have made her a cause lab and she's almost gotten out and her lawyer now is. I will tell to the reader, I think you're sorely mistaken, I have no apologies, she had a motive. I don't know and it's not contradictory, it's not incompatible that she may have had anger at her husband and felt that these children were half his biologically and she was going to punish him too. This also could be a motive, but there are various motives that she had. All right, Victor thank you for your time today and your wisdom and thanks to our audience for choosing to join us on this Friday news roundup. Thank you everybody for listening and watching. This is Sammy Wink and Victor Davis Hanson and we're signing off. Thank you for tuning in to the Daily Signal. Please like, share and subscribe to be notified for more content like this. You can also check out my own website at victorhanson.com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition.