Victor Davis Hanson: America Won the First Cold War. Can We Win the Second?
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
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| 0:43.7 | Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal. |
| 0:52.9 | I'd like to talk about our two Cold Wars, the one that we won against Russia and the one that we're de facto in against China. |
| 0:54.7 | They're very different. |
| 1:02.2 | And I would argue that the 45-year Cold War with Russia was much easier to win, |
| 1:09.3 | despite their 7,000 nukes than it will be with China for a variety of reasons that we should all be aware of. |
| 1:14.5 | Number one, Russia was kind of a pariah state. |
| 1:17.8 | It was isolated from the so-called free world. |
| 1:22.8 | Europe was, Europe and Asia and the United States had guardrails against it. |
| 1:31.3 | There were no students de facto from Russia in the United States, none. Statistically, almost none. There was no conduit for espionage or the expropriation of American scientific and engineering knowledge |
| 1:40.0 | out of our PhD programs, MBA programs, you name it. |
| 1:45.2 | There was very little espionage by students. |
| 1:49.7 | There was very few Russian nationals in the United States. |
| 1:53.0 | We just didn't let them in. |
| 1:56.1 | There was no American investor class in Russia. |
| 1:59.9 | We remember how controversial Arm and Hammer was. |
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