Victor Davis Hanson: Under Trump, America Is Again ‘No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy’

The Daily Signal and Victor Davis Hanson ^ | Jan 6 2025 | Victor Davis Hanson

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Almost one year into his second term one thing is clear: President Donald Trump is neither an interventionist, nation-builder or an isolationist. Instead, Trump has seemingly adopted the foreign policy of President Andrew Jackson, guided by principles like “No better friend, no worse enemy.”

However, Trump’s Jacksonian approach to the world stage comes with a slight twist, a “vise,” so to say, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words”:

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“If Maduro cannot put embargoed oil on sanctioned tankers and get to Cuba, then Cuba's going to have no ability to distill gasoline, nor will it have energy. And that's exactly what is happening. The Cuban economy is in a Trump vise. Are we going to bomb Cuba? No. Are we going to have a Bay of Pigs standoff or invasion? No. Are we going to have a Cuban Missile Crisis with China? No. We're going to have a Trump vise. And it's going to squeeze.”

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00:00 Introduction to Trump's Foreign Policy
00:49 The Vise Policy Explained
01:57 Case Study: Iran and Venezuela
04:37 Impact on Cuba and the Monroe Doctrine
05:46 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

An interesting short video that looks at Trump's foreign policy. Worth your time!

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[DIRTYSECRET]

911-we shoda bombed the place and say we’ll come back if you do it again.

The place is Iran.

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VDH is a bright guy, but I don’t want him back in Bush-Cheney mode.

[9YearLurker]

I hear ya! He’s personally very appealing, but yeah, he was a longtime Establishment colleague of Kissinger—and it shows.

[9YearLurker]

Isn’t that what we did to Japan before WWII?

[Buttons12]

Isn’t that what we did to Japan before WWII?

They had a plan!

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[KingofZion]

Fantastic. The Cubans have suffered long enough. Time for them to be liberated.

[cowboyusa]

No, it’s Jacksonianism, like he said.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Was this recorded last month or is VDH already out of the hospital?

[JohnBovenmyer]

Was this recorded last month or is VDH already out of the hospital?

[No name given]

The sooner the better.