‘Painful to Watch’: Victor Davis Hanson Nukes ‘Highly Emotional’ Tucker Carlson for Questioning If UK ‘Benefitted’ From Defeating Hitler

Sean James

Oct 6th, 2026, 12:20

Victor Davis Hanson can’t believe how far Tucker Carlson has fallen.

The veteran conservative pundit skewered the former Fox News anchor for questioning if the United Kingdom “benefitted” by defeating Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany in World War II, which Carlson had asked during a bizarre interview last week that instantly went viral.

Hanson, on the Tuesday episode of his podcast for The Daily Signal, said Carlson made pathetic and ahistorical points throughout his interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg, a member of the Conservative Party in the UK.

“It was painful to watch,” Hanson said. “Because I used to know Tucker and I liked him — I still like him. But obviously, something’s happened to him.”

Carlson’s interpretation of WWII was “completely wrong” and failed to understand why it was imperative for Winston Churchill to stand up to Hitler, Hanson argued. He also said Carlson routinely botched easily-checkable figures from the war, like how many people died in certain battles, and glossed over how much of a threat Nazi Germany was to the West by 1940.

“Tucker was highly emotional, spewing out all sorts of misinformation,” Hanson said, adding it looked especially bad when compared to the Rees-Mogg’s “sober” delivery.

If you missed it, Carlson asked if fighting the Second World War was worth it for the UK last week.

Here’s a look at the back-and-forth exchange that followed:

REES-MOGG: Hitler would’ve taken as much as he could’ve done, as he was showing.

CARLSON: Well, Hitler said that 15% was once Germany and it was given to Poland at the Treaty of Versailles. That was German territory with Germans in it. That was his case. And by the way, that was true.

REES-MOGG: Except the Polish borders had been cut up by–

CARLSON: I’m certainly not here defending Hitler. I’m just saying the idea that Hitler just randomly rolled into Poland is a lie and everyone believes it because they know nothing about the actual facts. But the truth is, Germany had big pieces of it carved off, including part of Prussia and it was given to this other country. It infuriated the Germans. Maybe it shouldn’t have, but it did. And that was the justification for it. The U.K. had nothing to do with it at all And–

REES-MOGG: Well, we had a treaty of alliance–

CARLSON: –they destroyed their empire and their country fighting this war that they still pretend was a good idea, but it wasn’t.

REES-MOGG: It was fundamental. It was the classic good-versus-evil.

CARLSON: Has the U.K. benefitted from it?

REES-MOGG: We did the right thing.

CARLSON: Is it a better country than it was?

REES-MOGG: To have defeated Hitler? Yes.

CARLSON: So, the U.K. is a better country now? It’s a healthier country now.

REES-MOGG: Otherwise, we’d all be speaking German.

CARLSON: Who cares?

REES-MOGG: I do.

CARLSON: There are a lot of people in Britain who can’t speak English. So, it would be nice to have like, at least a European language spoken in your country.

REES-MOGG: No, I see no advantage speaking German over any other language. We want to speak English, thank you so much.

Hanson said Carlson didn’t understand Britain didn’t have much of a choice — the Nazis would have taken over the island if the UK didn’t fight back. He added Carlson acted childish while debating the topic.

“Almost everything he said in that interview was false,” Hanson said. “Once again, he has these little quips, and then he starts chuckling and trying to make fun of this guy, Rees-Mogg, but he really knew history… I don’t know any fair-minded person that didn’t think that severely damaged Tucker’s reputation. He couldn’t laugh his way, or fudge facts, out of that.”

He continued, “And one of the subtexts, again, if you listen to it very carefully, the subtext is: the Jews, the Jews, the Jews.”

Hanson’s criticism stands out, considering he was one of Carlson’s go-to guests when he was a star at Fox News. But Hanson has been baffled by Carlson’s post-Fox News content,with Hanson saying last week Carlson has “done a lot of strange things” since exiting the channel.

https://www.mediaite.com/media/painful-to-watch-victor-davis-hanson-nukes-highly-emotional-tucker-carlson-for-questioning-if-uk-benefitted-from-defeating-hitler/

Victor Davis Hanson: Tucker Carlson Is Rewriting the History of World War II

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Ex-Google boss warns Ukraine over Russia’s ‘Starlink rival’

Rassvet could become “more or less unblockable” once fully deployed, Eric Schmidt has said

Published 7 Oct, 2026 09:13 |

Russia’s emerging Rassvet satellite network – often described as a “Starlink rival” –could provide Moscow’s military with sustainable communications and data to attack any target in Ukraine at will, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has warned.

Speaking to The Economist last week, Schmidt noted that while Ukraine was initially seen as the main innovator in the conflict, Russia had largely closed that gap while pressing its advantage with far greater resources.

Schmidt noted that one of these domains is Russia’s Rassvet satellite project, which he suggested was about a year from maturity. “Once that network is in place, it is more or less unblockable,” he warned, adding that this could let Russian forces “hunt anywhere” inside Ukraine.

The ex-Google CEO also weighed in on the idea of granting Ukraine access to Starlink over Russia, which could allow Kiev to rely on Elon Musk’s satellites to target oil refineries and civilian infrastructure, calling it “really a political decision.”

“It’s really a government decision. And the US government needs to grapple with this question,” he said.

Developed by private Russian aerospace firm Bureau 1440, part of the IKS Holding conglomerate, Rassvet debuted in 2023 with the launch of three experimental satellites. The network is designed to offer speeds of up to 1Gbps with latency below 70 milliseconds and to operate at an orbit of around 800 km – higher than that of Starlink to balance the number of satellites against an increased coverage area.

This year, the company launched a total of 32 satellites, after six experimental spacecraft sent up in 2023 and 2024, with plans to have 292 satellites by some time in 2027.

On Tuesday, the company also unveiled a line of user terminals, some of which claimed speeds of up to 700 Mbps. The Ukrainian outlet Militarny suggested that some of the showcased terminals could eventually be fitted to strike drones.

Russia’s deployment of Rassvet has sparked major concern in Ukraine across the spectrum. In July, satellite communications expert Vladimir Stepanets told Militarny that the first satellite group provided at least two stable “communication windows” over the country daily, each lasting more than an hour.

Ukraine’s military intelligence separately told Janes it had recorded Russian forces using Rassvet communications over Ukraine for “several hours” by late July and warned the system could support real-time reconnaissance and strike-drone operations.

Vladimir Zelensky’s technology adviser, Sergey Beskrestnov, also warned that a fully deployed Rassvet could become a “small catastrophe” for Kiev as it would provide Russia with online control of strike drones and missiles.

Zelensky himself told the Financial Times last week that he had repeatedly asked US President Donald Trump to sanction companies involved in Rassvet development and production while warning that the network could become operational “by the end of this year or early next year.”Trump has not publicly responded to the request.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who now serves as deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council,said that attempts to “block” Rassvet would amount to destroying it and could trigger “full-scale space warfare.”

https://www.rt.com/news/646879-rassvet-ukraine-unblockable-google-boss/