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Victor Davis Hanson: World War II Was a Brilliant Work of American ‘Strategy, Productivity, Courage, and Sacrifice’

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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“World War II was a brilliant work of American strategy, productivity, and courage and sacrifice. And the result was we destroyed the greatest threat to mankind, and we did it as economically as we could in American cost and lives,” Victor Davis Hanson says. He also addresses why the U.S. allied with the Soviet Union during the war: "We fought World War II and won the war, and we came away with losing very few soldiers. At the end of the war, the Soviet Union had no intention … of honoring their commitments made both at Yalta and then before the Japanese theater had ended at Potsdam. “But nevertheless, when the war was over, the United States was the preeminent power in the world—except for Britain—had lost fewer combatants than any of the major three allies, Britain, the United States, Russia, and China as well, and had lost fewer than Japan and Germany. “So, we fought that war very economically by giving material aid to the Soviet Union, who used their manpower and lost 20 million people to kill three out of every four German soldiers. “That's not an argument that you like the Soviet Union. I detest the Soviet Union. But it's an argument that in the ability of the United States to defeat Germany in 1941, it was a wise military strategy to use a third party to kill the German army, kill it off, and that's what happened, it was a success." 👉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://www.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://www.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  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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that because I work here. Get started today at banta.com. Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson

0:32.5

for The Daily Signal. I had a recent podcast that I hope you all enjoyed about the new revisionism of

0:39.5

World War II. Specifically, I talked about an interview that a Cornell chemist, David

0:45.2

Cullum, had given with Tucker Carlson, in which I disagreed with his suggestion that not only

0:52.0

should we have not allied with the Soviet Union, but that we might

0:56.7

have considered ally with Hitler. He didn't really say that specifically, but he said that would

1:03.4

be a possibility. And I had a vehement demand for an apology from the journalist-dash historian Diana West. She said that I had defamed

1:15.9

her, and I want to read the two sentence or three sentences I said, because not only do I think

1:22.7

I was correct in my assessment, but I think rather than me giving an apology, I think she needs to give me an apology to me because she misconstrued what I said and then she put it all over the Internet.

1:36.0

Let me go back to that broadcast I gave you and read exactly, exactly what I said.

1:51.4

Recently, there has been more revision about World War II,

1:57.8

period. Tucker Carlson had on his show the other day a chemistry professor from Cornell University, David Cullum.

2:10.4

There was sort of resonating, that was sort of resonating what a prior blogger,

2:21.9

Daryl Cooper had said about World War II in the vein of Diana West, Pat Buchanan, all the way back to Herbert Hoover.

2:31.7

The gist, let me repeat that, the gist of it was that we should have never allied with the Soviet Union.

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