Hello and welcome to the Victor Davis Hansen show. Victor is an author, scholar, military

historian and a political commentator. He is also a farmer. I guess he wouldn't consider

himself currently a farmer. He does own plan, but he was a farmer and he writes some really

insightful commentary on his website, which you can join. It's called the Blade of Perseus

and you can join the website for $5 a month or a $50 a year subscription or you can come

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as well. So please come join us. I'd like to remind everybody that Victor is the Martin

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

the Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College. Today

for this weekend's episode, we are going to be looking at Mexico and Victor has a recent

article actually on Mexico. I want to talk a little bit in depth about that, but let's

have a few messages before we do that. We'll be right back.

Welcome back, Victor. How are you doing today? I'm doing pretty well. I've been pretty

busy. I'm working on my book on the end of everything and we're doing some of the

interviews and here on the farm it's very wet. It keeps raining and raining and the

more that they say today will be a clear day, the less and less likely that will be true.

I keep thinking all the reservoirs will be overflowing. I look at my statistics that are

mailed to me by a water advocacy group and I see that a major reservoirs are only half

full. They're not even at 75% when they cap them and wait for the snow going off. I just

part of my route back and forth from Fresno County to Stanford, Powwath or areas, the San

Los Reservoir and it's just pathetic to see that it's only, but we can get into that

later. It's only 55% for when we have water, 10, 12 million acre feet rushing out to the

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