The John Batchelor Show

Wednesday 22 February 2023

Air Date: 
February 22, 2023

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

#Ukraine: Recommending ATACMS and main battle tanks for the front.  @Brad_L_Bowman @FDD_CMPP @FDD

 

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/02/20/bidens-latest-weak-excuse-not-sending-atacms-ukraine/

Bradley Bowman serves as senior director of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, where he focuses on U.S. defense strategy and policy. He has served as a national security advisor to members of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, as well as an active duty U.S. Army officer, Black Hawk pilot, and assistant professor at West Point. @Brad_L_Bowman @FDD_CMPP @FDD
 

915-930

#NYC: #NY: No protocol for New York State to shed a fraud who is now a member of the Congressional delegation.. Harry Siegel, NY Daily News.

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-george-santos-makes-george-costanza-look-honest-20230211-palhfdsvjbbyfhgkg2h6k7vq2e-story.html

930-945

#SpaceX: Will not land at sea on an oil rig platforms -- for now. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex...

945-1000

#Mars: Curiosity's drill cannot solve a Martian rockface. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/for-th...

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#CANADA: #PRC: Challenged Sovereignty and the Trudeau Government. Charles Burton, senior fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, on these:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-what-is-this-government-doing-to-protect-canadas-sovereignty-against/

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-china-influence-2021-federal-election-csis-documents/

1015-1030

#PRC: Not paying full salaries to teachers and firemen and nurses. Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of the upcoming new edition of China Alone:  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

 

1030-1045:

#PRC:: #RU:  "Rock solid" says Wang Yi to the Kremlin.  Stephen Yates, chair of the America First Policy Institute's new China Policy Initiative. @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-21/china-urges-world-to-stop-saying-taiwan-is-next-after-ukraine

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-top-diplomat-lauds-strength-of-russia-ties-in-putin-meeting-a87d36b4

1045-1100

#PRC: Arms control extremely unlikely  Peter Huessy, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/21/europe/putin-russia-new-start-nuclear-pact-intl/index.html

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

 #Pakistan: #Afghanistan: It is the Islamabad and Rawalpindi that torment the people of Afghanistan. Bill Roggio, FDD. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pakistans-defence-and-spy-chiefs-di...

1115-1130

#Ukraine: Commodities one year  of European war later, moderating and declining. Simon Constable,  Forbes, 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/u-s-oil-futures-mark-a-6th-strai...'s

1130-1145

#Ukraine:  The duelling presidential speeches and NATO's challenges :Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

https://thehill.com/policy/international/3869910-putin-ally-fires-back-a...

1145-1200

#Ukraine: The stalled battlefront low on ammo. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/eu-mulls-ways-ramp-ammunition-...

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#NewWorldReport: Troubles in Panama at the Darien Gap. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis


https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/least-60000-minors-set-cross-dangerous-panama-colombia-jungle-gap-2023-says-un-2023-02-18/

 

1215-1230

#NewWorldReport: Surinam in turmoil against the authority of the Parliament.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis


https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/protesters-storm-surinames-parliament-rampage-through-capital-rally-turns-ugly-2023-02-17/

 

1230-1245

##NewWorldReport:Mexico and near-shoring Tesla.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis


https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexican-president-pans-water-scarce-border-state-eyed-by-tesla-2023-02-20/

 

https://www.reuters.com/technology/teslas-search-mexico-location-shows-bumps-nearshoring-road-2023-02-17/

 

1245-100 am
#NewWorldReport: Lula da Silva to Beijing. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/brazils-lula-meet-chinas-xi-march-28-beijing-2023-02-17/