Welcome to the Victor Davis Hansen show. Victor is a man of wisdom, but trained and instinctual.

Victor provides commentary on politics, society, and culture. And this is our weekend episode.

And we do a little bit of historic work on the weekend. And we're looking at World War One. So we

will get to that. But before that, we're going to talk a little bit about the Maui fire hunters,

millions and China. So stay with us and we'll be right back.

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to pre-stuff on the website as well. He is the Martin and Neil Anderson Senior Fellow in military

history and classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow

in history at Hillsdale College. So welcome everybody. Victor, the Maui seems to have suffered

from a terrible fire. So before we start, I thought maybe he had a few minutes, we could talk about that

if you have anything to say. Well, I don't think they know the cause of it. Do they? I mean,

I've been to Maui once, always on work, work-related matters. But I guess it's

partly some type of dry hurricane conditions that brought up

Santa Ana like like winds. And then, you know, when you go to Hawaii, there's two different

climates. There's the upper elevations on the mountains that slush and cool. And then when you get

down to the bottom, it can be a dry wind and it can be a dry wind and it's not, it's kind of

parched. So I assume that's where the wildfires are. But this is something that the left

almost automatically discounts the actual immediate cause. So here in California, we had the

Aspen fire and I had a house up at Huntington. And we know the likely culprit were marijuana

growers. And then we just forgot about it. And we know what fuel the fire was in proper forestry.

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