Hello and welcome to the Victor Davis-Hansson show and to our weekend edition.

We like to look at something cultural or in this case it will be warfare.

We've been working on World War II, and Victor's going to talk about some of the peripheral wars during World War II in the middle segment.

So please stay with us for that. And we're going to be looking at,

of course, as we always do, some of the most recent news, it appears that LA Times has

fired their entire editorial staff. So we'll start with that. Stay with us and we'll be right back.

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