Victor Davis Hanson explains how “Europe is sitting on a volcano” of political, religious, and sociological tensions created by the strain of an unsustainable migrant population. The threat of radical Islam in the West seems to only get stronger as time goes on. Meanwhile, in America, the left still actively seeks to increase illegal immigration. Watch the full episode of Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words at The Daily Signal 👉 https://l.prageru.com/4sjvG3o or on YouTube: @victordavishanson7273
Do you feel or do you agree with the statement that the war has revealed the strengths of all
the independent nations involved? In this sense, we now know that NATO, some of those nations can't
be relied on. We're all sort of afraid of China and Russia and their strength, just like Iranian
strength. And then the Middle Eastern nations, the ones that are on our side, have had to show
their allegiances, I guess, as well. So it's made these things really clear.
It revealed things, but it also changed things. So the big loser here is Europe,
because all they had to do is they could have just said, look at what Greece is doing.
Greece is letting the Gerald IV, the biggest warship in history, come into Souda Bay,
a joint NATO base. They're not bragging about it. They're not condemning it. They're just letting
the Americans come in there and fix the fire damage and the toilets, and they'll be on its way.
That was great. And Greece earned a lot of points. Why didn't Spain do that? Because
it had to grandstand. And so did France. And so did Italy. Maloney has lost all credibility
with the Trump administration. Sad. Everybody liked her. That was unnecessary. Or she could
have called up Trump and said, I want to apologize, but I'm in a domestic jam. I got a crazy electorate.
Is there any way that we could come in at night or something? But they didn't even make that attempt.
And so they thought they were really tough because the war was going to be Trump's Vietnam.
Well, now it never was going to be Trump's Vietnam. That was just a mythical unicorn that the
left made. So now they're all impotent, and they're all on the wrong side of the United States,
except countries like Greece, Eastern Europe, probably Finland, Sweden, the ones that matter
now. So then they are bragging that they're going to make their own NATO now. We have to get ready
if Trump gets out. He's not going to get out of NATO. He's going to say, can't hear you. Oh,
you want to go into Serbia and you want to bomb all the Danube bridges again? Oh, we did that
once and did 80% of it for you. And we got, oh, you want to go to the Falklands because you think
Mali might take him again? Oh, can't hear you. Oh, oh, France, you've got some problems with
Chad and you want airlift capacity and you want, oh, we can't hear you to call us again. That's
what they're going to do. Oh, Ukraine. Oh, it's on the border of Europe. Well, you want another
$200 billion? We can't hear you. That's what it's going to be. And he's not going to say
the United States is not honoring the NATO commitments. It's just, he's going to say this,
the United States has discovered that Europe has a new interpretation of NATO commitments. And we
agree there are fine commitments and we're going to emulate them. And that's what they're going to
do. Britain has this week said that it's going to cut from its already impotent military,
3.5 billion pounds. That's a huge cut on the military. Any thoughts? I don't understand it.
They've got 40 admirals and they only have like 16 major ships. They had an aircraft carrier that
was going to join us. It's like two years ago, its propeller broke and just sat there.
They attacked Akrotiri in Cyprus, Iran did. Storm Wing said, we're going to protect Red
Echenquist. And so their little destroyer was the only one operable. And then they said, well,
we can't send it because it's the weekend and it would be too expensive to have union wages.
I don't know. I read a column about all the weird things that happened from this war. And one of
them is you kind of rethink the Falklands. Because if you ask yourself under Stormer,
which country has more free speech now, Malays, Argentina or Stormer? Which country has a more
Western economy? Which country has a more sane immigration policy? Which country is more
pro-American? Stormer who said, this is not our war or Malay who said that he supported the United
States. And he said something very interesting the other day. They asked him about the Falkland.
He said, it's ours, but we don't want to cause any trouble right now. So for now,
we're just going to let it be. But what I think he was saying is there's going to be a lot of
pressure on me because everybody is sick of the UK government. And the question is not whether
Stormer is an aberration, but whether given their population and changing demography,
if he's going to be the face of every prime minister in the future, because he's very weak.
I don't think the British understand how he is seen over here or what he's done to NATO.
They all say Trump, Trump, Trump. But when you tell a US president who wants to
stop this renegade anti-Western regime from having missiles, especially nuclear-tipped
missiles that can hit every European city, and they're willing to do it on their own,
as the German Chancellor Merz said, to do the dirty work. And then you make a soapbox speech
and say that this is not a war and you're not going to help them. All you had to do is say,
Donald, would you please land at night? And I will say, I'm not aware of there's any unusual
NATO joint activity. But he couldn't do that. He had to appeal to his Islamic population.
The other thing very quickly about it is the Islamic population of Europe is much more radical
than the Islamic population in Egypt and Jordan and the Gulf states. So Europe is sitting on a
volcano. It's not like they've had Middle East people who are moderate come. They've let in
radical people who are political extremists that have come in, and they get more and more radicalized
when they see how wealthy and affluent Europeans are, how sexually liberated they are, how tolerant
they are, how therapeutic they are. They look at them as sheep to be sheared. And it's not going
to end well. I don't know why the country... It's kind of like what Biden... If Trump had not won,
Kamala Harris would have doubled down on the Biden immigration. Instead of these ice riots,
we would have had, I don't know, another 10 million. We would have had 40 million illegal
Instead of trying to round up 600,000 criminals, we'd have another million.