The most recent VDH commentary was very interesting read.
To nations opposing Russia in the moment, ""We're going to destroy you. We're not going to take you over. We're not going to try to rebuild your country. You're going to end up -- yeah -- ..."
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv31oj8OWP0
He has expressed other thoughts too.
"Is the Ukrainian war also creating the most dangerous anti-American alliance since World War II?" VDH in "VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Questions without answers about Ukraine", LVRJ, March 25, 2023
He adds, "Is the United States economically capable or politically unified or socially stable enough to wage a huge proxy war on the frontiers of a nuclear Russia? During the last comparable multibillion-dollar military efforts — the First Gulf War in 1990-1991 and the 2003 invasion of Iraq — the ratio of American debt to GDP was respectively 40 and 50 percent. Today it hovers at nearly three times that figure at 129 percent, given some $33 trillion in accumulated debt."
It seems the whole event is one enormous Gordian knot. I don't trust the Democrats to solve this, given their stellar withdrawal from Afghanistan, and especially given the money laundering of the princelings of Biden, Pelosi, Kerry and Romney long before this war broke out. Whether the Russians or NATO can solve this seems very uncertain. Who has the military solution?