Transcript of 'Judging Freedom,' 12 December edition

As an introductory comment to the transcript of today’s chat with Judge Andrew Napolitano, I am obliged to explain my point about how a factory producing the Russian equivalent of American AWACS planes may have been the true target of the Ukrainian strike on Taganrog using ATACMS missiles. Like the Ukrainian drone attacks earlier this year on Russian early warning radars in the south of the country, the factory making Russian AWACS has no value whatsoever to the Ukrainian forces, and so one should ask why would they go after it. The simple answer is that such an attack only serves American interests in destroying Russian defenses against a possible U.S. preemptive nuclear strike coming from US submarines in the Mediterranean or Persian Gulf. For this very reason, the Kremlin may well be reconsidering what it should target in its retaliatory strike now. Logically the target should now be some valuable U.S. military asset like its newly opened base in Poland.