Victor Davis Hanson: “Trump Just Put Iran On It’s Knees…”
Victor Davis Hanson: “Trump Just Put Iran On It’s Knees…”
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the high-stakes arena of global diplomacy, the greatest threat to peace is not the presence of friction, but the miscalculation of resolve. For decades, the foundational doctrine of Western foreign policy has vibrated between two competing theories: the belief that rogue actors can be socialized into global norms through economic integration and open-ended negotiations, and the contrasting reality that peace is only ever secured through verifiable, overwhelming strength.
In a sweeping, clinical assessment of modern statecraft, acclaimed military historian Victor Davis Hanson recently articulated a reality that the American foreign policy establishment has spent years trying to ignore. Focusing on the Middle East, the strategic vulnerability of international waterways, and the profound domestic political shifts within the United States, Hanson laid bare a chilling truth: America’s adversaries do not perceive diplomatic magnanimity as an invitation to peace. They perceive it as a green light for aggression.
As Washington grapples with a multi-front cold war spanning from the South China Sea to the Strait of Hormuz, the choices made in the coming months will dictate the trajectory of the rules-based international order for the next half-century. America can either continue to indulge in the comfortable illusions of open-ended diplomacy, or it can re-establish a doctrine of unyielding deterrence that forces its enemies to recalculate the cost of defiance.
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