would not trust to it mow your lawn. they offer nothing but misery and scarcity. jimmy carter took that same platform in 1980 and lost. now all of those years later in 2022, the democrats and the globalists are trying to convince that more government control and less freedom is a good thing for us and the plant. good luck with that. that s the angle. joining me is victor davis hanson. global reset. history at a turning point. a new normal. all code for createth one global society. what happens to nation hood then? well, a global society is only as strong as its weakest
they offer nothing but misery and scarcity. jimmy carter took that same platform in 1980 and lost. now all of those years later in 2022, the democrats and the globalists are trying to convince that more government control and less freedom is a good thing for us and the plant. good luck with that. that s the angle. joining me is victor davis hanson. global reset. history at a turning point. a new normal. all code for creating one global society. what happens to nation hood then? well, a global society is only as strong as its weakest link. tony blinken asked the u.n. to
it s a vicious chance to continue to erase the ukrainian identity. i mean, nothing new here. we re not surprised. the russian empire s tried to do that in the second half of the 19th century. they were talking about the common entity of calling them t soviet people. and now current day russia is doing the same thing. they are waging the war not against the current ukrainian state but against nation hood, against the nation, the people. they are trying to present the view, which they have been doing, especially under putin now, that ukraine is not a state, some kind of historical aberration. there s no such thing as clacl ukrainian people. it s a deviation from russia.
everyone will be seeing is this, if he does not have to deliver any sort of win, as you said, who is this directed to? is this to the west? is this some sort of warning or show of force for the west? hm-mm, so, it is a bit, but it s always because, world war ii since 2012. especially since russia last invaded has become the central idea of russian identity, so, it s the state that has been adept at using the powerful cultural memory of world war ii and trying to cohere a sense of nation hood that russia has struggled with since the most soviet era. so it s one thing that can unite all russians. is that, their pride in the memory of world war ii and we see how powerful it is, in the way it s been used to discredit the ukrainians, who are
sense of people hood, their sense of nation hood. also another irony, but the territories russia annexed and is now occupying, these are the most historically pro russian areas of the country. ukrainians will tell you we will fight to the end to liberate all of our territory but they will wink and nudge and say, by the way, he has pinned up the fifth colonists and one of the reasons our country has developed politically, socially over the last years is we don t have the rogue elements influencing the trajectory of our nation. so in a way ukraine has inadvertently done a huge favor i m sorry, mr. putin did a huge favor to the country of ukraine and i think he realizes it that it has strategically backfired. speaking of strategically backfiring, admiral, there can t