Why 2026 Could Be the Most Dangerous and Transformational Year Since World War II

3/24/2026|Updated: 3/30/2026

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This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment of the Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words podcast from The Daily Signal.

2026 looks like it’s going to be the most tumultuous, geo-strategically significant, and dangerous year since the fall of the Soviet system and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The whole world is in upheaval. [President] Donald Trump is the catalyst of this. A lot of people, both in his base and his opponents, both here in the United States and abroad, blame him.

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Victor Davis Hanson

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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.”