The Fall of Constantinople and Current Military Matters
The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler
4.9 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2023
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about current affairs in Sudan, Syria, and Ukraine, and VDH explains the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and Ottoman power.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, podcasters. You've joined the Victor Davis Hansen show. This is our weekend edition, |
| 0:08.0 | and I know that a lot of you out there listen for a little reprieve from the news and a look |
| 0:12.3 | into history. And we like to tap Victor's extensive historical knowledge. And these last |
| 0:18.3 | few times are we're on a March of the history of warfare. And I did say just a little reprieve, |
| 0:25.7 | we will have some current news. And today there's going to be a lot on the current military |
| 0:31.2 | situation in various places around the world. So stay with us and we'll be right back. |
| 0:36.3 | We're back at the Victor Davis Hansen show. I'd like to remind everybody that Victor is |
| 0:46.9 | the Martin and Nile Anderson senior fellow in military history and classics at the Hoover |
| 0:51.0 | institution and the Wayne and Marsha busky distinguished fellow in history at Hillsdale College. |
| 0:57.9 | Victor, I know that we'd like to start off the podcast with a little bit of positive. And I |
| 1:04.6 | thought maybe I noticed some ads by the Trump campaign. And I was very impressed. What do you |
| 1:12.5 | think about them? I was too, because you know, these ads that he's been running against |
| 1:19.2 | Rhonda Santis. I know that his hammers feel that they've done damage because of the polls. I |
| 1:24.7 | don't think they have because I think the polls are premature to a candidate actually announces. |
| 1:29.9 | And he's not following the Rudy Giuliani mode of skipping primaries or we got a long way to go. |
| 1:36.0 | This is only 2023. So we're not even into the mid-summer of the fall and we usually start to |
| 1:42.8 | heat up the year before the election. But those ads that Trump, he didn't go into attacking |
| 1:49.6 | Santis from a bizarre left wing position. He was attacking him on things like both in ads and |
| 1:58.8 | both in speeches and both in tweets about going after the crazy Disney people or he was attacking |
| 2:05.6 | them on social security or he was attacking them on gun control and abortion. It was from a left wing |
| 2:11.6 | perspective and the left wing media was giddy about it. Partly because they were encouraging it. |
| 2:21.2 | But this particular ad, it was brilliant. It showed the world in chaos and it had |
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