Victor Davis Hanson: "You’ve Been Lied To... Here’s the Real Story!"

It’s not diplomacy—it’s survival. Victor Davis Hanson lays it bare: China’s economy is fragile, its factories idle, and its lies endless. Trump knew it. Pushed them to the brink once—and could do it again. This time, with a plan.

$10 trillion in foreign capital. That’s not a fantasy. That’s the window Hanson says Trump is trying to seize—before America collapses into dependence on the very regimes that want it gutted. It’s not about bringing back toy factories. It’s about owning the future: AI, biotech, chips, pharmaceuticals. Here. Now.

The old elite called it mercantilism. Hanson calls it realism. A deal with Silicon Valley’s titans: bring production home, and in return, you’ll be shielded—from Europe’s bureaucracy, China’s IP theft, and America’s own regulatory madness. Be American first, and you’ll get the most favorable climate on Earth.

This isn’t a New Deal. It’s a wartime economy. Modeled after WWII’s War Production Board, where enemies became allies in building the arsenal of democracy. Trump’s version? Musk, Ellison, Zuckerberg—recruited not for love, but leverage.

And while Biden scolded allies and begged dictators for oil, Trump made hard choices: realism over wishful thinking. No more pride flags on fleeing embassies while $80 million gender studies programs rot in Kabul. No more human rights platitudes that hand nations like Saudi Arabia to China and Russia.

This is about the new Cold War. The choice isn’t between perfect and evil. It’s between flawed allies and dark regimes. And Hanson warns: every time we tried to export our morality without understanding history, we lost ground—and the world paid for it.

The message? Produce what matters. Ally with who matters. And stop pretending we can reshape the world in our image while we can’t even make antibiotics without Beijing’s permission.