Alamogordo Daily Digest Tuesday, June 09, 2026
Ty's Take
Victor Hanson's column landing in the paper today—pushing back on the idea that we're trapped in some inevitable conflict spiral with China—hits different out here where half the economy runs on defense contracts and the other half worries those contracts might evaporate overnight. The Thucydides Trap theory sounds academic until you're sitting in a town built on missile ranges and space programs, wondering if the next budget cycle brings growth or a hiring freeze. Hanson's argument that America's decline isn't written in stone is worth considering, though anybody who's watched Holloman and White Sands navigate shifting priorities over the decades knows that economic destiny isn't quite as simple as one historian's framing. The real question for Otero County isn't whether we're trapped—it's whether we're nimble enough to adapt when the rules change, and they always do.
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Victor Hanson: America is not caught in a ‘Thucydides Trap’!
Political commentator Victor Davis Hanson disputes the theory that America faces inevitable conflict with a rising rival power, challenging scholar Graham Allison's influential "Thucydides Trap" concept. Hanson argues that historical patterns of preventive wars between established and emerging...
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