Welcome to the Victor Davis Hansen Show. This is the Saturday edition where we do news

and a little bit of history. We are going to look at a bevy of things today. We've got

the difference between Latin and Greek on the agenda, aircraft carriers, the invasion

of Russia, and perhaps a little bit more, but at least we'll try to get through those

things. First, let's listen to these messages.

Welcome back. I would like to remind everybody that Victor is the Martin and Ily Anderson,

Senior Fellow in Military History and Classics at the Hoover Institution, and the Wayne and

Marshavusky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College. He's available at his website

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for his ultra articles as well, which amount to about 2400 to 4000 words a week. So they're

a good deal at $5 or 50 for an annual subscription. Victor, what's on the top of your mind today?

What's on the top of your mind? Yeah, the news. Maybe it wants on the Ukraine.

Yeah, I wrote something. I think Ukraine is winning and in the sense that they're

holding out every day they hold out the financial situation with sanctions gets worse for Russia.

They have created a new modality that with these shoulder-fired javelins, which I think now are

implanted to up to the many thousands and with the surface-to-air missiles, they can sort of bypass

because they're not an offensive, they're not an offensive army in a sense, they're not going

into Russia. So they're a defensive system and they can destroy with you know a $200,000

investment in three men, they can destroy a tank that's a couple of million dollars or more with

five men and they've been very good at it, getting up to near 100 tanks. And Russia now, according to

some reports, is committed not just to 200,000 that were mustering, but it's growing people from all

over from Western Russia, Northern Russia, to send them in. I don't think they can win. The only

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