Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s New National Security Strategy Holds China’s Feet to the Fire The recently unveiled U.S. National Security Strategy has ruffled liberal and even some conservative feathers both here and abroad, for two reasons: No. 1, the Trump administration told Europe an inconvenient truth: The birthplace of Western civilization is facing “civilization erasure.” And No. 2, critics feel that the strategy is not critical enough of Russia and China. They’re wrong. An entire section,

Victor Davis Hanson: How Trump’s Security Doctrine Pits China and Russia Against Each Other The Trump administration just issued its national security strategy, and two of its objectives are causing a lot of controversy. One critique is against what the administration wants its relationship with Europe to be going forward and another is that the strategy isn’t “critical enough of Russia and China.” “But if you read it very carefully, it’s pretty clear, by inference, that [the Trump administratio

Victor Davis Hanson: War With Venezuela Could Break Trump’s MAGA Base Tensions between Venezuela and the United States are rising as Trump cracks down on drug trafficking, illicit oil shipments, and hostile foreign influence in Latin America. With talk of confrontation swirling in the media, questions are mounting about how far the U.S. should go—and what lessons history offers. Victor Davis Hanson puts Trump’s standoff with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro into historical perspective and exp