The Raw Deal (25 September 2023) with Ann McClain and Patricia Saffran

We had a bit of trouble connecting but finally made it on the air about 7 minutes late. I began with Seymour Hersh's report--based on inside intel sources--that the war with Russia over Ukraine is over and the Russians won! Perhaps out of desperation, an attack was made on the HQ of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, where (so far) only one death has been confirmed and it does not appear to have been the CiC (who was said by other sources to have been killed). A US Poseidon aircraft was flying over Romania at the time and may have directed the attack electronically. Russia is properly protesting that the US is at war with Russia, which of course is the case. Meanwhile, a Leopard tank was taken out in Ukraine that turned out to be manned by regular German soldiers in violation of NATO claims to not be actively engaging with Russia on behalf of Ukraine. The county is in the grip of a Marxist Cultural Revolution, which includes attacking the key institutions of society: education, law enforcement, border security and (perhaps most important) national identity. The statues that were erected in the wake of the Civil War were forms of reconciliation that symbolize respect for the leaders of both sides. The effort to remove them is thus part-and-parcel of the plan to destroy American culture and from the chaos thereby generated to rebuild an egalitarian communist society, in which some will be more equal than others. Ann and Patricia were great and Reese called in from New York with his take on the situation, leading to a lively debate.