Victor Davis Hanson

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  • Jul 30, 2026
    Iran’s rulers are not playing to win the war today—they are playing to survive long enough to fight another one tomorrow.  
  • Jul 28, 2026
    We’re approaching five months of our on and off war with Iran, but it’s not really quite five months of war. It’s more like forty days of kinetic action, the first...
  • Jul 14, 2026
    With a whimper rather than a bang, the world has become a different place than it was in January 2021, when Donald Trump left office. Almost everything we are now told about the...
  • Jul 9, 2026
    Europe is upset. They’re very angry. They’re always angry, but the last two weeks they seem to be particularly angry. There are reports at their winter EU summit, they...
  • Jun 24, 2026
    Recently, during the confusion, the anger, the controversy over the memorandum of understanding concerning negotiations that will ensue with the United States and Iran, JD Vance, our...
  • Jun 23, 2026
    Trump’s Iran memorandum is not a surrender or a new beginning—it is the next phase of a strategy built on pressure, deterrence, and avoiding another costly Middle East...
  • Jun 22, 2026
    I think a lot of people are missing a couple of premises. No. 1, we don’t know the extent of damage in Iran. No ground troops, no embedded reporters, no news, no internet...
  • Jun 18, 2026
    The Iran war is already reshaping alliances and narratives, while fueling a deeper argument over U.S. power, limits, and long-term strategy.  
  • Jun 16, 2026
    There’s a lot of confusion, controversy, and disagreement about the latest phase of the Iran war. Remember, we bombed kinetically 38 to 40 days, then we had 60 days of...
  • Jun 11, 2026
    We talk about an Iran war, but as I speak on June 9, we haven’t had a real kinetic back-and-forth bombing campaign or anything since around April 8. So, we had 38 days of...
  • Jun 2, 2026
    Iran survives by delay, deception, and deterrence games—but the moment may be coming when airpower, not diplomacy, decides how the nuclear standoff ends.  
  • May 29, 2026
    A lot of people who oppose Israel resent people who suggest they might be antisemitic, and that’s a legitimate criticism. They’re not necessarily synonymous, but when...
  • May 20, 2026
    America has repeatedly been declared a dying empire, yet every rival—from Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union to China—has ultimately fallen short of US power and...
  • May 19, 2026
    Recently, at the U.S.-China summit in Beijing, Premier Xi [Jinping] mentioned that he hoped that both parties, the United States and China, could avoid the Thucydides...
  • May 5, 2026
    The Iran war didn’t just break Tehran—it shattered old alliances, exposed Europe’s weakness, checked China and Russia, and accelerated an American-led geopolitical...
  • May 1, 2026
    We’re approaching 60 days of the so-called Iran war, and we’re still getting these loud voices that Donald Trump has failed, that the...
  • Apr 22, 2026
    Nothing that the Iranians say can be taken at face value because there is no Iranian government. The first and second echelon of that apparatus is gone. So, you have the people in...
  • Apr 16, 2026
    The prognosis of the Iran War is now so couched in politics and so warped by the American Left that the public has grown tired and wants it all to go away. But in truth, the...
  • Apr 14, 2026
    America’s leverage in the Strait exposes Iran’s weakness—turning its greatest asset into a liability and reshaping the balance of power without a ground...
  • Mar 31, 2026
    Military victories are decided on the battlefield—but in modern America, they are too often lost in the politics that follow.  
  • Mar 24, 2026
    We’re concluding the third week of the Israeli-United States effort to emasculate Iran, and we’re, sort of, in a standoff period. I think people have compared...
  • Mar 17, 2026
    Victor Davis Hanson weighs in on how the war with Iran is going after two weeks for "The Daily Signal."
  • Mar 3, 2026
    No, you can’t negotiate with them because their whole currency is lying, and they’re fanatic ideologues.
  • Feb 13, 2026