Russia has lost its patron, Victor Davis Hanson says ^⁠97%

7/25/2026, 3:30:43 AM

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BS Summary: This video contains 31 faulty reasoning types, including Ambiguity (Equivocation), Negativity Bias, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Hasty Generalization as the most egregious example at 34.4% saturation with 140 hits. Analysis detected 1,474 faulty-reasoning hits from 407 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 94.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠97% (826 of 21,887 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 96.20% of the video peer group.

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We're here with our friend, my good friend Victor Davis Hansen, Hoover

Institution senior fellow. More than that really, just a great historian.

Victor, let me let me ask you the question this way.

We have u we're in a question this way. We have u we're in a war with Iran, the Iranian regime.

How important is this war historically?

because it's my contention it's very important because we won the cold war but starting somewhat before the cold war and going on for the last half century effectively there's been this other sort of uh effort this geopolitical massive effort to change society that's been going on and now

it's front and center and President Trump is confronting it and dealing with it because of their pursuit of nuclear weapons.

What? You're you're the historian here.

Am I right about that?

>> Yes. I I think for most of our lives,

the Middle East that supplied 40 to 50% of the world's oil was a question of the Cold War powers.

But now Russia's not communist anymore.

It's an oligarchical tyrannical society.

But it's lost its patron in Syria. It's lost Iran.

And China, people are wising up to China in the Middle East. and it's not getting oil really from Iran.

So Iran's the last real obstacle in the Middle East.

There's all sorts of countries in the Gulf and moderate countries that that want to be either neutral to us or allied to us.

That is the West.

But Iran was the bully of the Middle East.

million people, it's size of Texas and Oklahoma combined.

It always want you talked about its existential desire to destroy people and it does. And so it

was always the obstacle. And seven presidents knew that. [snorts] But they also knew that if you go in there, it was a mess because they're they're the

largest population except for Egypt. And

they're fanatic and they're neist. And so no, every president sort of like the old Egypt's fable. We got to bell the

cat, but nobody wants to put the bell on the cat. And Donald Trump was the first one who said, "I'll do it." And he did

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