Hello and welcome to the Victor Davis-Hounson show. This is our Saturday edition where we look at some things cultural.

This week we're going to take another chapter of Victor's recent book in our middle section,

but first we're going to look at a few news

stories that we didn't finish up on for the Friday news roundup and that would be

Russian ships off the Florida coast and Pelosi saying that the GOP is a cult of thugs. So stay with us and

we'll be right back for those stories. Welcome back. I would like to remind everybody that Victor is the Martin and

I would like to remind everybody that Victor is the Martin and Ialy 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.

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So Victor, we didn't get a chance on Friday

to talk about the ships.

I think there's four of them, Russian ships

off of the Florida coast and trying to I think

arm Cuba with the thing or two.

So what are your thoughts?

I don't know what they're doing. I think they're trying to remind everybody of

1962 when remember what the situation was in the Cuban Missile Crisis of October

of that year.

Khrushchev had felt that after meeting Kennedy in a summit, I guess it was in Geneva, that he was

weak and he could be tested.

So the idea was to place nuclear tip missiles in Cuba,

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