The World Made Anew

American Greatness ^ | 14 Jul, 2026 | Victor Davis Hanson

[MtnClimber]

America's allies are stronger, its rivals weaker, and the global balance has shifted.

With a whimper rather than a bang, the world has become a different place than it was in January 2021, when Donald Trump left office. Almost everything we are now told about the global status quo is mistaken—largely because critics focus on what Trump says rather than on what he does.

Rather, the Left—and some on the Right—are furious whenever Trump tweets, says, or does something that offends their delicate sense of taste, tradition, and decorum. Their outrage leads them to ignore whether this “Art of the Deal” theater ultimately leaves the United States stronger. More often than not, it does.

We are not bogged down in a forever war with Iran.

Israel is not without friends and is more regionally dominant than at any point in its history. Radical Islam—whether in the form of the Iranian regime, Hezbollah, Hamas, or the Houthis—is at its weakest point in half a century.

China is recalibrating nearly all of the assumptions it has held for the past two decades. Russia is humiliated and hemorrhaging. Latin America is more pro-American than ever before.

So let’s start with Latin America.

In 2013, John Kerry boasted to the Organization of American States that “the era of the Monroe Doctrine is over.”

He may not have anticipated how naturally his declaration would be interpreted throughout the Americas: that the Obama administration would no longer act unilaterally to prevent distant, hostile regimes from establishing spheres of influence in the Western Hemisphere. And indeed, Latin America subsequently witnessed a wave of left-wing—and sometimes overtly communist—governments emerging during the Obama and later Biden administrations. But that left-wing wave is over.

Instead, here is where things stand as of July 2026: Latin America has swung decisively away

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leftism; terrorism; vdh; victordavishanson

[MtnClimber]

VDH ping.

[Gen.Blather]

All we have to do to reverse all of this is elect another Obama or Biden.

Even though what Trump is doing in Iran will make the world safer and more prosperous in the future, it’s the inflation it causes now that risks giving us a complete surrender and return to the past. The American public needs someone to explain what the plan is. Unfortunately, that someone is not Trump. Vance could do it. Rubio could do it. But unfortunately, they don’t command enough audience.

[Psalm 73]

Nice post!

I find VDHs optimism refreshing, although I'm not quite there yet.

Never-the-less, the sun came up again this morning, and God is still, (and forever) Sovereign.

[Sicon]

VDH doesn’t say anything about the cancer of islam in the U.S. If that isn’t excised, nothing else really matters.

[ansel12]

I have been posting parts of this positive information for years, at first tied to Russia’s invasion and how it affected NATO and our Pacific allies, and now Trump has gone way beyond that and taken on China and Latin America and Middle East problems and helped turn everything to America’s benefit, and the world’s, and this article shows great strategic gains for America.

[ansel12]

Wrong thread.

[redangus]

Someone needs to let Joy, both of them, know this.