Need to Know News (15 July 2022) with Joe Olson and Maryam Henein

Russian advances in Ukraine leave the West gasping for breath. A Nazi battalion from Belarus has been dispatched with alacrity. And the lower house of the Russian government met today to declare war on Ukraine. Chris Hedges has a brilliant piece on NATO, "the most dangerous military alliance on the planet", which has undertaken aggressive attacks again and again, including Bosnia, Serbia, and Kosovo; launched wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Libya; and expanding its reach to Africa and Asia. A war game where Russia uses a nuke and NATO responds leads to a nuclear exchange with 90,000,000 casualties. And now New York and LA are advising citizens that, to avoid radioactive contamination, they should go inside, wash themselves off, and listen to radio reports. But there aren't going to be any buildings to enter, no water for showers, and no communications at all. What stunning stupidity! Meanwhile, Joe's press secretary can't cope with the latest polls, where at 33% approval, he is the most unpopular President in the history of the United States. Jonah Goldberg, who seems not to have noticed that the 2020 election was stolen, reflects on why Biden is in deep trouble, suggesting that his vanity led him to attempt to be a transformative president in pushing a green agenda to Make Progressives Great Again, which was destined to fail. Read the list of Orgy Island visitors and it will make you want to vomit. A judge has ruled that New York's quarantine rules are unconstitutional and cannot be enforced, which of course will be appealed. While the contents of Hunter's iPhone are now making the rounds with a lot of gruesome and thoroughly unwholesome contents. Even John Cornyn says enough is enough to more gun control laws.