Friday, October 09, 2026

Victor Davis Hanson: The Trump Doctrine: No More Free Defense for Ungrateful Allies

He’s basically saying this: There’s a pattern to all of this. - Victor Davis Hanson
  • South Korea has a very left-wing government. It’s been very critical of us and Iran. So he said, well, I don’t know why we have 50,000 troops there. I don’t understand—35,000 maybe now. Maybe we should take some out.
  • Germany has been very critical of us and wouldn’t … And so he said, Well, in Poland, let’s take, start with five and put them in Poland.
  • Spain has been very critical. Well, we’ve helped, we poured billions of dollars in this base, but maybe we should just get out of there.
  • Same thing with Britain, whether it’s [Keir] Starmer or Burnham. That’s the same left-wing socialists on reliability, and you can’t deal with that government...
Maybe if they want to invite us back in. 
  • But Trump’s attitude is that we don’t want to spend billions of dollars and take criticism to protecting people who won’t protect themselves...


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