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Amen. Biden should not only face immediate impeachment, but then removal and charges for treason, and receive the ultimate penalty, publicly.

Early in his "career" as a politician he actually said he would gladly accept money to do others bidding. He admitted to being a sellout whore. This is why Obama chose him as a running mate.

We are in the final stages if this war folks.

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I believe Biden was "chosen" as Obama's running mate because he was the only Democrat willing to debase himself in a position secondary to BHO.

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Stop the whining and school yard bullying. For all the carrying on there are no facts to present.

Trump claimed he could shoot someone in Manhattan and not be arrested. Let's arrest him for that, too.

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Check out the conservative tree house. Great writeup on the lack of "evidence" to convict Trump. And the lack of prosecution of biden or clinton.

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UNITE WE “The people – the people – are the rightful masters of both congresses and courts – not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it.”

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Here's an ¡amén! Also, no surprise whatsoever at all. As you probably know about 400 years before Christ the great Greek historian Thucydides said: All governments lie. And also about 400 years before Christ, the Greek historian Xenophon said: Appearances rule the world. Jesus in Mt 20:25 didn't mince any words in speaking about government. Speaking to his disciples, one translation reads that He said to them: As you know, leaders of nations oppress their people, and their high officials (for some examples think Fauci, Walensky, Collins) abuse their authority. Mark Twain of course said: A lie travels half way around the world before the truth had gotten out of bed and put it's shoes on. Love you brother! Please keep up the so, so fine work, the so, so noble work, the so, so beautiful work. ¡Amén!

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Biden shouldn't be re-elected until he begins nightly violin sonatas.

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Not sure I understand your joke and I’m a professional cellist

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Nero wasn't a cellist and I wasn't joking.

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Oh I get it. Nero (Biden) fiddled while Rome (us) burned

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Perhaps it’s an allusion to there being strings attached to everything the Biden crime family does.

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BT: Asking is fruitless. Vonu is inscrutable and cranky.

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AMEN to all you say except I do not think that the so called Republicans will do squat...they ALL know what goes on in DC and keep their mouths shut making them complicit and just as guilty. Think back to Mr Cawthorn who spoke out about the drug use and sex parties in DC..instead of saying this is a serious accusation we need to investigate it..the 2 top republican people in the house yes McCarthy and Scalise both chastised and threatened him and carried it further by making sure he was not reelected to the house. So don't even hang on to ANYONE being held accountable for ANYTHING that is, was or will be done by ANYONE connect to government.PERIOD!

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I would imagine Dr Alexander is speaking about Victor Hanson.

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Nothing will happen until the DC Swamp is completely razed over and buried. Both sides are far too corrupt to ever reverse course.

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" ... if a Republican administration returns to power ..." 🤣🤣🤣🤣

As if that is ever going to happen again.

The Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe stayed in power for decades.

Actually it still is in power. Mugabe died buthis partyisstill in power headed by someone just like him.

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Yes, anyone can be president and that is the law. That is how we got stuck with the criminal, eugenicist Trump! This is tedious hearing Paul screaming hostility about Dems which only distracts the real issues about Trump. Stay focused and support democracy. Trump flaunted the law that he claimed to support more times than can be counted. That is why he has so many indictments against him He is recorded on tape so many times promoting his criminality that it is quite stunning people will still try to deny his culpability. But perhaps you support his fascism and efforts to destroy the Constitution and Bill of Rights!

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Obviously, you don’t know the definition of fascism or you would be running from the demonrats as fast as possible. You obviously don’t know what the constitution says because this administration has paid no attention to it and is determined to take away every right that is represented. Stop watching TV unless you enjoy propaganda which you clearly have swallowed, hook line and sinker. I guess all liberals are the same; still clueless that the mainstream media is the propaganda machine of their party.

I’m not defending Trump; I am pointing out your incredible ignorance about how the DOJ, FBI , etc. have been weaponized and you’re too brainwashed to see it.

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Rubbish.

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I guess you haven’t heard of Joe and Hunter either.

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Amen.

One question, though. Who is Hanson?

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Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The End of Sparta (2011) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

The Western Way of War (1989) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

Hoplites (1991) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

The Other Greeks (1995) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

Fields Without Dreams (1996) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

Who Killed Homer (With: ) (1998) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

Warfare & Agriculture in Classical Greece (1998) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

The Soul of Battle (1999) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

The Land Was Everything (2000) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

Carnage and Culture (2001) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

Bonfire of the Humanities (With: ) (2001) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

The Wars of the Ancient Greeks (2002) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

Craft of Northern California (2003) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

Mexifornia (2003) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

Ripples of Battle (2003) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

Between War and Peace (2004) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

A War Like No Other (2005) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

An Autumn of War (2007) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

War, Ancient and Modern (2008) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

How the Obama Administration Threatens Our National Security (2009) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

Makers of Ancient Strategy (2010) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

The Father of Us All (2010) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

Obama: The Dream and the Reality (2012) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

The Savior Generals (2013) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

The Second World Wars (2017) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

The Case for Trump (2019) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

The Dying Citizen (2021) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

What If?: The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (1999) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (2000) Amazon.de Amazon.com

No End Save Victory (2001) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

The Politically Correct University (2009) Amazon.de | Amazon.com

Victor Davis Hanson is an Illie and Martin Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he is a Senior Fellow Resident studying Military History and the Classics. He is a Distinguished Fellow at Hillsdale College, a Tribune Media Services nationally syndicated columnist and a professor Emeritus at California State University.

Over the years, he has won numerous fellowships, honors and awards including the Bradley Prize in 2008 and the National Humanities Medal in 2007. Victor has also authored hundreds of scholarly papers, book reviews, articles and newspaper editorials.

He has written on all manner of issues ranging from contemporary culture, ancient Greek, domestic politics, foreign affairs, military and agrarian history. Over the years, he has been the author or editor of more than 17 titles and has also written columns for “The New York Post,” and the “New York Time” among others.

In 1975, Hanson graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a bachelor’s degree. He would then get his doctorate degree in Classics from Stanford University five years later. Hanson has become one of the United States’ most prolific historians. He was born in Selma California on a farm, the child of one of the first female judges in California and a school administrator.

He had strict parents who ensured that he and his siblings applied themselves. They would often ask what someone was doing whenever they saw Hanson or his brothers just sitting around. His work is united by teaching, scholarship, farming and journalism and the many experiences he had growing up on a farm.

He does see his career as one extended life experience. Having grown up on a farm, he had the tragic perspective on life that he got from his parents and grandparents, which he still has to this day. In school, he studied classics for nearly a decade, both in the US and abroad and then went on to teach for more than twenty years.

All this teaching and studying taught him about unchanging human nature and how predictable the human ordeal could be. Whether it was reading Thucydides or sophocles, or working on a farm the message would be reiterated albeit in different ways.

In his earlier years, Victor Davis Hanson wanted to become a lawyer before he gravitated to the classics, when he went to the University of California. After getting a fellowship to do his doctorate at Stanford, he spent two years in Athens conducting research.

Once he had his doctorate, he realized that there was not much work a classicist qualified for and hence he went back to work on the farm following the death of his grandfather. Still, his scholarship had given him some valuable insights into how ancient Greek society worked.

During this time, he learned that Emilio Gabba, an Italian classicist, had read his dissertation and wanted to publish it. He was atop his tractor when his wife informed him that some guy was calling about wanting to publish his dissertation.

Since he could not afford the $2000 dollar costs of publishing, Gabba convinced the publisher to waive the fee and soon after “Warfare and Agriculture” his debut was published.

Once he published his first, he just could not stop and he went on to publish on almost anything from immigration, farming, classics and more particularly about war.

“A War Like No Other” by Victor Davis Hanson is a provocative and painstakingly researched work that juxtaposes modern concerns with ancient conflict. Over the course of a generation, Athens the Hellenic polis had fought a bloody war with Sparta, which ultimately led to the destruction of Athens and the end of the golden age for the city state.

Thucydides penned the classical history of the Peloponnesian War that provides a succinct authoritative and vivid narrative to readers through the ages. On his part, Hanson provides something different. He writes a chronological account reflecting on the political issues of the time, the misery of battle in the many different theaters of the war, the strategic thinking of the actors, and how these events echo into the modern world.

Hanson shows how Sparta and Athens fight on sea and land in the countryside and in the city and how they deployed conventional and unconventional strategies from terrorism and torture, to targeted assassinations, and sieges.

He also analyzes the important roles played by thinkers such as Plato and Sophocles, artists such as Aristophanes and warriors such as Lysander and Pericles.

Victor Davis Hanson’s novel examines nine landmark battles stretching from ancient ones such as the Battle of Salamis to the Tet offensive by Hernan Cortes. Hanson explains what makes for the most effective and lethal fighting forces throughout time.

The author looks beyond popular explanations that have cited superior technology and geography and argues that Western values and culture , the concept of citizenship, the value placed on adaptation and inventiveness and the tradition of dissent is what has always made western armies so effective.

Using a balanced perspective and riveting battle narratives, the novel is a demonstration of how armies are deeply woven into and spawned from the cultures that produce them. Hanson argues that an army that comes from a free culture will often have an edge.

He argues that western strategic culture as evidenced in nine historic battles proves that free soldiers perform better than slaves. He cites the naval victory of the Greeks over Persia at Salamis to demonstrate how effective free soldiers can be versus slave one.

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Thanks so much Dr. Waldmeier.

I would have recognized him by his full name, Victor Davis Hanson. I read his commentaries in The Epoch Times.

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