Posted on 10/23/2023 5:12:34 PM PDT by conservative98
Hamas’s unprecedented invasion of Israel would in “no way” have transpired under the presidency of Donald Trump, according to world-renowned military historian and professor Dr. Victor Davis Hanson, who also argued that Russia would not have invaded Ukraine and China would not have sent spy balloons over the U.S., as he urged America to take back its international standing.
Speaking on former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia John Anderson’s “Conversations” podcast Wednesday, Dr. Hanson suggested that “to his credit,” former President Donald Trump demonstrated American deterrence and determination through his assassination of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani and destruction of the Islamist terror group ISIS.
In response, “Iran did not do anything,” and “there would be no way Hamas was doing this between 2017 and January of 2021,” he argued. “They had a small war, but they never did anything like this.”
According to Hanson, additional countries would have also been deterred under a Trump presidency.
“I don’t think Vladimir Putin would have gone into Ukraine, and I don’t think that China would have sent a balloon,” he said, attributing that to Trump’s reputation for being “unpredictable” and the nations’ conviction it would be a “dangerous thing” to tempt the United States.
“And I think we want to get back to that,” he added.
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While noting that “Trumpian rhetoric” was not essential, Hanson declared that the former president “set a model” whereby, during his presidency, Tehran was “suddenly” quiet for four years after having perpetually issued threats, and Russia “did not move” in Ukraine.
In addition, he highlighted how President Trump was warned against moves that would unleash mayhem, yet his unyielding approach proved to be most effective:
Everybody said if you move the embassy to Jerusalem, if you say that the Golan Heights shall be Israeli, if you cut off the $700 million to the Palestinians, if you say that you’re not going to give one dime to [the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East] — you can’t do that.
“And he did it all, and nothing happened,” he added. “And that was because we were strong and reliable. And I think we’ll be that way again.”
According to Hanson, if America projects strength, her allies “can be assured that they don’t have to go out on a limb.”
Stolen elections have consequences. Global anarchy.
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European leaders said “We’ve got America back again” when Biden became President.
Middle Eastern terrorists also knew the heat was off them and Biden was a wimpy patsy who could be persuaded to believe any con game about “peace.”
Dirty Dems who put him into office made the world a more dangerous place and pushed us closer to World War III with mega deaths.
Please consider thanking the Dems when you see them around.
True but irrelevant. 81 million Biden voters would agree.
Let’s be clear:
“Iran in ‘No Way’ Would Have ordered Hamas to Invade Israel under Trump”
Also, Trump killed 200 Wagner in Syria without one American death or word to the media. Most people don’t even know it happened.
Trump wouldn’t have had all the baggage of corrupt dealings in Ukraine that Biden did. So none of that would have happened. At least not under that scenrio. Probably not any scenario.
The blood of the dead from both of these wars is on the hands of the never Trumper Uniparty (R) vermin who ran the coup that deposed Trump. That’s who started both of these wars. That’s who brought anarchy to the world.
Probably not - nor would Russia have invaded Ukraine, and we would not have withdrawn from Afghanistan in the way that we did.
Trump’s campaign team allowing Biden to run roughshod over him and control the narrative and crush him from start to finish without opposition is not how you win a race, either, regardless of the establishment also working to push him out. Any one little thing was enough to have tipped the race given the margins in some states. But the base abandoned him and did not fund his campaign, just as they did not fund other campaigns in 2020, as well as 2018, 2019, 2022, and again this year in 2023.
The Democrats out work and outraise us not only at the establishment level, but at the grassroots level. That is reality. We continue to deny it at our peril. This has to be corrected.
The Good old Days were just TWO YEARS AGO.
And to think Hanson was originally a NeverTrumper.
Democrats see government and politics as the “Be All, End All” of their existence.
We see government and politics as a nuisance, and a “necessary evil”, and we’d rather tend to our own lives.
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