Commentary
The Ukraine mess is daily looking more like the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939, a meat grinder that took 500,000 lives. That three-year conflict became a savage proxy war and prelude for the belligerents of World War II.
Soldiers carry the coffin of soldier Vladyslav Tkachenko, 45, at his funeral and that of a second soldier at the Field of Mars cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Feb. 22, 2023. Both men were volunteer soldiers serving in a Ukrainian territorial defense unit and were killed in eastern Ukraine. Sean Gallup/Getty Images/TNS
Victor Davis Hanson
Author
Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, a senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University, a fellow of Hillsdale College, and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Mr. Hanson has written 17 books, including “The Western Way of War,” “Fields Without Dreams,” “The Case for Trump,” and “The Dying Citizen.”
