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Victor Davis Hanson: The Reality Behind Europe’s Rift With America

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

Sami Winc: Apparently, according to a Wall Street Journal article, they had a secret meeting in which they vented their frustration about Trump. They called it “Therapy Night.” But what the article said was they were discussing how to manage a breakup with the United States. 

Victor Davis Hanson: Promises, promises. 

Sami Winc: I know. I was going to say, do you think that the Europeans would really break with the United States? 

Victor Davis Hanson: No, I know they won’t. Why do I know that? Because I’m not stupid. Spain was—I think his name is Gonzalez. Isn’t he the prime minister of Spain? 

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Sami Winc: I think it’s [Pedro] Sanchez. 

Victor Davis Hanson: Yep. Sorry. He was bragging that he was not going to spend over 2%, and he was bragging to his own people after he let in 500,000 illegal people from Africa who were going to be able to go all through Europe, given they were given green cards from the Spanish government.  

But he was also bragging that he denied U.S. access to a NATO joint base, that he wouldn’t let them use airspace, and that kind of influenced everybody wanting to tag along. 

“Well, I’m [Emmanuel] Macron. We’ll do the same. We won’t let them.” 

And then Germany said, “Well, you know, I’ve already called it. It’s not our war. We’ll just kind of keep our bases away.” 

And then [Georgia] Meloni said, “Oh, my defense minister said you can’t land much more in Sicily. It’s now........

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