Screencap of YouTube video.
Conservative historian and scholar Victor Davis Hanson just put Operation Epic Fury into historic perspective during an appearance on FOX News and compared Trump to Winston Churchill in the process.
Hanson makes the point that when Churchill was trying to warn the world about Germany, he was largely ignored by other leaders and suggests that a similar thing is happening with Trump and Iran.
He also points out that all of Trump’s recent predecessors have said that they wished they had dealt with the problem of Iran while they were in office. The difference is that Trump is actually doing it.
Transcript via Overton News:
HANSON: “In 1939 Churchill had warned everybody about the threat of fascism on the continent…nobody listened to him.”
“Then after the war broke out, nobody called on him and then finally he came in and from May 10th of 1940 he was saying to everybody, these people want to take over the continent.”
“He was the voice in the wilderness.”
“That’s what Trump is trying to do, trying to say to the American Democratic party, what’s left of it, you don’t understand what’s going on here.”
“You Europeans don’t understand, you people in the Middle East don’t fully understand what this regime is about.”
“When people say we did not have an imminent threat, we didn’t have an imminent threat when they took our hostages, when they blew up our barracks.”
“Nobody said we better attack Iran because we need an imminent threat when they blew up our embassy, they always acted spontaneously with surprises and we never knew what they were going to do.”
“The idea you have to have a telegraphed imminent threat, it’s not the nature of that regime.”
“It’s lying, disguise and dissimulation. That’s their pattern for the last 47 years.”
“But nobody’s taken them seriously.”
“Every president’s said we’re going to deal with this, all seven of them and all seven did not.”
“And then all seven of them when they got out of office said I regret that I didn’t”
“He’s the first one that warned the world and said he’s not going to be one of those presidents.”
Watch the video below:
Victor Davis Hanson draws an uncanny comparison between President Trump and Winston Churchill — two leaders warning about a growing threat while the world refuses to listen.
Hanson said that for 47 years, every U.S. president promised to deal with Iran, but Trump is the first… pic.twitter.com/0dH4bQOusb
— Overton (@overton_news) March 20, 2026
The only reason Democrats are not getting behind this effort is because they do not want Trump to have another victory. They care more about that than they do about America’s national security or peace in the Middle East.
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