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Showing posts with label Victor Davis Hansen. Show all posts
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Sunday, 27 July 2025

Russiagate Rolling On

It turns out Russiagate isn’t just a busted flush — it’s a ticking time bomb that still has shrapnel to throw.

In a follow-up to the bombshell revelations covered in my earlier post Russiagate Comeuppance, Tulsi Gabbard joins Victor Davis Hanson in a fresh YouTube video to dig even deeper into the swamp. And folks, it stinks.

Tulsi lays out the truth plainly — this wasn’t just an overzealous investigation or a few honest mistakes. It was a calculated deception, used to smear Trump, undermine an election, and distract the public. Worse, the real culprits — those who peddled the lie — still haven’t been held accountable.

VDH reminds us this wasn’t just political theatre. It was the misuse of intelligence agencies, media complicity, and flat-out manipulation of public trust. All while the so-called “protectors of democracy” gave themselves medals for their “resistance.”

This ball still has a long way to roll. But as more truth comes out, the sham is being exposed for what it really was: a hoax designed to poison a presidency and divide a nation.

Tick, tock.



Saturday, 28 October 2023

Innocent civilians?

The many marches in our streets decry the death of Gaza's civilians caught in the Israeli bombing of Gaza with "These are innocent people.", "The blockade is a collective punishment." 
I am sure many are, but given that many of Gaza's 'civilians' are Hamas one day and civilians the next it is a difficult claim.

Even more disturbing is a recent X post by Victor Davis Hansen that exposes the 'innocent civilian' claims. His post is rather long but here is a snippet.

"Purportedly, free apartments and $10,000 bounties were offered by the Hamas leadership to Gazans who brought back Israeli hostages. And at that moment, though not now, there seemed to be hundreds of takers zealously following the Hamas death squads into Israel—including a few who had been prior guest workers in border kibbutzes.

That picture of eager civilian involvement was apparently confirmed by videos that emerged from the Gazan street, as the Israeli captives and dead were spit upon, struck, and reviled by civilian mobs—at least in the heady days after news of the easy killing of Jews in Israeli but before the IDF aerial response."

Read the full post here

So are they all innocent civilians? No, neither are they all civilians nor innocent.