Victor Davis Hanson: Ukraine's Blitz Launches War in Dangerous New Direction

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🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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After more than three years of bloody stalemate, Ukraine has launched unprecedented strikes deep into Russian territory—destroying nearly a third of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet and targeting the crucial Kerch Bridge to Crimea. Now, Trump’s peace push may now be stalled—not by Ukraine, but by Putin himself. With over $400 billion in Western aid already spent and millions of lives disrupted, is the war entering a more dangerous phase? Victor Davis Hanson examines this latest development on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “ Just when we thought the war might have some type of conciliation or armistice, Ukraine struck in a way that it had never done before and it was very effective. “ There was a drone attack on the Kerch Bridge, that only link, really, that's accessible for easy transport from mainland Russia into the Crimea. It's essential. … It shows you that Ukraine is now kind of having a turtle strategy. It's not going to waste its limited manpower slugging it out. But it's going to use drones and it's going to make over a million of them.” 👉 This episode is sponsored by the Pepperdine School of Public Policy. Learn more: https://go.pepperdine.edu/dailysignal 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 👉If you can’t get enough of Victor Davis Hanson from The Daily Signal, subscribe to his official YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/victordavishanson7273 👉He’s also the host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” available wherever you prefer to watch or listen. Links to the show and exclusive content are available on his website: https://victorhanson.com (0:00) Overview of the Ukraine War (1:44) Analysis of the Ukraine War (5:04) Ukraine's New Strategy and Implications (8:24) Conclusion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	Let's look at an update of the Ukraine war. Remember, it's now gone on for over three years,
0:34.6	and we had pretty much discussed the contours of the fight.
0:38.3	Russia has now controlled about 20% of Ukrainian territory, and it's using its enormous advantage
0:45.0	in manpower to grind down the Ukrainians.
0:47.9	The general consensus was Zelensky was being unrealistic.
0:51.4	He was counting on more than the $400 billion from the EU and the United States and NATO powers to continue the fight.
0:58.0	We were in a stalemate and Trump sort of pivoted and said now not Zelensky was unwilling to make a deal, but actually it was Putin.
1:06.0	And then something happened this week. Just when we thought the war might have some type of conciliation or armist. Ukraine struck in a way that it had never done before, and it was very effective.
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2:12.2	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal. Let's look at an update of
2:16.8	the Ukraine war. Remember, it's now gone on for over three years, and we had pretty much discussed the contours of the fight. Russia has now controlled about 20% of Ukrainian territory, and it's using its enormous advantage in manpower, GDP, 10 times the GDP, four times a manpower,
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