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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It has been a VERY long two years.
I think he’s right about Hamas and Russia, but didn’t China use spy balloons during Trump’s presidency, too? Maybe I’m wrong about that, but I seem to recall reading that it happened, but the intelligence agencies didn’t bother to pass that information along to Trump.
Yo, Victor, tell me something I don’t know.
I agree with him. Biden comes off as a very weak President.
Looked at some articles about balloons during Trump’s presidency. It seems they were originally termed unidentified aerial phenomena and later decided to be Chinese balloons.
Trump would have had that balloon shot down so fast it’d make your head spin.
Biden hemmed and hawed and diddled while it made it’s way all the way to the Atlantic. What a weak, pathetic pansy Biden is.
Trump didn’t need to take bribes and sell America out to get rich like Biden and Obama did.
They’ll get their just deserts but it’s hard to be patient.
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