Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Geostrategic, Top-Down ‘Way of War’
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | We've seen Donald Trump's punitive action, preemptive actions in his first term and now in his second as well. |
| 0:05.8 | And there's a general pattern here, a Trump way of war, we could call it. |
| 0:09.2 | One thing that's central to all of his action is they're geostrategic, pressuring the Panamanians to divorce themselves from China. |
| 0:17.5 | Making sure the Venezuelan oil does not go to Russia or China by changing the government |
| 0:22.8 | and capturing Maduro. Things like that suggest that the current Iranian operation has targeted |
| 0:30.5 | China. It's a major supplier of Chinese oil. China is one of the biggest, if not the biggest |
| 0:37.2 | supplier of consumer goods, |
| 0:39.0 | material goods to Iran. It supplies weaponry to Iran, and Iran has become a client more of China |
| 0:46.0 | now than Russia, and it may be lost to China, as Venezuela was, and maybe Panama was. You're |
| 0:50.8 | starting to see a pattern. These are wars of reckoning. Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal. We've seen Donald Trump's punitive action, |
| 1:10.4 | preemptive actions in his first term and now |
| 1:12.5 | in his second as well. And there's a general pattern here, a Trump way of war, we could call it. |
| 1:17.7 | One thing that's central to all of his action is they're geostrategic, pressuring the Panamanians to |
| 1:26.0 | divorce themselves from China, making sure the Venezuelan oil does not go to Russia or China by changing the government and kidnapping, capturing Maduro. |
| 1:37.3 | Things like that suggests that the current Iranian operation has targeted China. It's a major supplier of |
| 1:50.1 | Chinese oil. China is one of the biggest, if not the biggest supplier of consumer goods, |
| 1:55.6 | material goods to Iran. It supplies weaponry to Iran, and Iran has become a client more of China now than Russia, |
| 2:04.3 | and it may be lost to China, as Venezuela was and maybe Panama was. You're starting to see a pattern. |
| 2:09.9 | These are wars of reckoning. So there's always people say, well, why are we attacking Iran? |
| 2:16.7 | And Trump's way of reasoning, he's |
| 2:20.2 | settling up old scores. Panama was getting away with murder through a previous administration, |
| 2:26.7 | maybe including his own, by stationing or allowing the Chinese to have strategic locations on |
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