Hello and welcome to the Victor Davis Hansen show.

This is one of the shows that we're doing a discussion of Victor's new book that's selling like hot cakes.

The end of everything, how wars descend into an annihilation.

So very provocative title, it's, as I said, selling well, and we're going to look at the last episode the last

episode the last chapter which is the epilogue and the conclusion to his book. So stay with us and we'll be back after these

messages.

Welcome back to the Victor Davis Hanson Show. Victor is the Martin and

Ili Anderson Senior Fellow in Military History and Classics at the Hoover

Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Buskey Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College.

You can find him at his website, Victor Hansen.com.

It is called The Blade of Perseus and it's got lots of good things on it. His

podcasts are archived there, his American Greatness Articles and other interviews that he has either on

podcasts or on some of them are newscast and he has the VDH Ultra material for which you must subscribe $5 a month or $50 a year and we'd love to have you join.

Well Victor, the book ends with lessons that we've learned from the defeats and the annihilation

of those cities, and I was wondering if you could go ahead and talk to us about the lessons that were learned from that.

Well, the first one is not just exclusive to these doomed civilizations that were erased,

but to all powers that find themselves in a war, all players.

And that is, if you feel that your survival hinges on allies, then the allies have made that same calculation.

And if they feel that you're going to lose in a cost of benefit analysis, they're not likely to help you. There's very few

Winston Churchill's. In other words, Britain was the only one of six major

belligerents in World War II that went to war on the principle of Poland's

territorial integrity.

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