Hello and

Welcome to the Victor Davis Hansen show.

Victor is the Martin and E. Lee 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.

For all of those who are new to the podcast, Victor is also an author, a classicist, he's a military

historian and a political cultural commentator.

His new book is the end of everything

about civilizations that have been crushed.

And Victor, we agreed is quite often due to warfare.

Yes, well no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Crutch is a good word though.

Actually the destruction of an entire civilization, and by that I mean the demography the physical infrastructure the language the culture so it

Banish is very rare in history. Yeah, so my point is that the fate of the Aztecs or the Carthaginians to take two

examples of the four in the book are rare and what what caused that to happen and are those centrifugal forces still

here could you see the disappearance of the Ukrainians or the Israelis or the Armenians or the

Greeks any small vulnerable state that's juxtaposed to powerful

enemies, especially in the age of bio weapons and artificial intelligence, nuclear weapons, etc.

Yeah.

Okay, so we are going to, we have lots of stories.

This is our Friday News roundup, so we're going to start with a few thoughts on the Iowa Caucus coming up on

Monday and then we'll be talking about Fannie Willis so stay with us and we'll be

right back. I would like to also remind and invite people who are new to the

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