Victor Davis Hanson: How Trump Is Upending the Status Quo, From Beijing to Gaza to Kyiv

American Thought Leaders

The Epoch Times

Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we sit down again with Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist, military historian, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and author of two dozen books, including most recently “The End of Everything.”

In this interview, we dive into the multifaceted dimensions of what he describes as Trump’s “counterrevolution” in the foreign policy space, from Canada to China to the Middle East to Ukraine and Russia.

What might the end of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza look like?

Should Trump have accepted a plane from Qatar’s royal family? Was it a good idea to lift U.S. sanctions on Syria’s new leader? Is there any truth to rumors of friction between Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?

Is it possible that Trump actually, in some sense, wanted Mark Carney to win and become Prime Minister of Canada?

And how can the United States ensure the Chinese leadership upholds their commitments in a trade agreement, given their track record of not following through?

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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0:00.0	This is all so political. The Wall Street Journal was probably the worst offender.
0:05.0	As soon as the tariffs were announced on Liberation Day and the market tanked,
0:10.0	they ran story, as you remember, recession, Trump's ruined his 100 days, administration and chaos.
0:17.0	When you looked at the actual data that was released in March and April, corporate profits
0:22.7	up, energy costs down, GDP going to be recalibrated, good. Inflation, pretty moderate. Job growth,
0:33.2	100,000 more than we thought. So all the indicators were exactly opposite of what Wall
0:40.0	Street was saying. So what was all that hysteria about? It was all about that 7% that was
0:45.7	paranoid about their mega profits. Joining me today is Victor Davis Hansen, a classicist, military
0:51.5	historian, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, an author of two dozen
0:55.6	books, including most recently The End of Everything.
0:59.2	In this interview, we dive into the dimensions of what he describes as Trump's counter-revolution
1:04.5	in the foreign policy space, from Canada to China to the Middle East to Ukraine and Russia.
1:10.1	This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yankee Kelleck.
1:15.8	Victor Davis Hansen, so good to have you back on American Thought Leaders.
1:19.7	Thank you for having me.
1:23.5	Victor, kind of hot off the press is Cash Patel had an interview with Maria Bart Romo yesterday on Sunday as we're filming right now.
1:32.7	And he talked about a range of things, a range of really significant things, including moving out of the main FBI building here in Washington, D.C.
1:41.2	But since we're going to be focusing on foreign policy today,
1:44.3	I wanted to ask you about this also seemingly explosive information where he said that
1:51.6	most of the terror suspects are actually coming through the northern border, and also this
1:58.2	kind of increased in movement in organized crime since the Southern
2:02.4	Borden has been sealed, whether it's the Chinese Communist Party, Iran, Mexican cartels.
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