Hello and welcome to the Victor Davis Hanson show. This is a special edition on

Victor's new book The End of Everything How Wars Descend into Annihilation.

For you who are new to the 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, and you can find him at his website

Victor Hansen.com. The name of the website is The Blade of Perseus.

We are going to talk about the second chapter of the book, so Carthage and maybe things outside of as well on Carthage because the book is very focused on the third Punic war between the Romans and Carthaginians.

So stay with us and we'll be right back. Welcome back to the Victor Davis-Hanson Show.

Victor, there's been, because it's relevant, we've had commentators and stories out there that are connected today in our own civilization.

Recently, or at least last night I heard a commentator say that AI will destroy us all eventually.

He was very bleak and we've seen things like Gee and Putin saying that nuclear weapons are not an option and I know we talked

about that on an earlier podcast that that's they're saying that now as they are planning their own sort of shenanigans.

And then just yesterday, and we were recording this a little bit earlier, Victoria Newland

said that the United States should help to hit bases in Russia,

so some pretty, to help the Ukraine,

so some pretty striking things that are ominous,

and so too is the story of Carthage that you want to tell us.

Yeah well when I wrote the book it was to investigate what is pretty rare in history as I said in our first two sessions that is the wartime

annihilation we don't usually annihilate World War I World War II Civil War the

losing party is not. By erased I mean their infrastructure destroyed or

absorbed their people killed or enslaved their language or religion their

customs and traditions fade.

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