The John Batchelor Show

Wednesday 9 March 2022

Air Date: 
March 09, 2022

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR        

9-915 
#Ukraine: Russian battlefield morale.   Jeff McCausland  @mccauslJ  @D6leadership, @USArmy @CBSradio @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/09/britain-send-worlds-advanced-anti-aircraft-missile-system-ukraine/?li_source=LI&li_medium=li-recommendation-widget
 
 

915-930      
#Ukraine: What about those MiG-29s from Poland?  Jeff McCausland  @mccauslJ  @D6leadership, @USArmy @CBSradio @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/09/britain-send-worlds-advanced-anti-aircraft-missile-system-ukraine/?li_source=LI&li_medium=li-recommendation-widget
 
 
930-945     
#Ukraine: Commodities skyrocket. Simon Constable @RealConstable ; @Time
https://time.com/6155581/russia-sanctions-global-economic-impact/

945-1000      
#Ukraine: Russia disconnecting. Felix Light @CBSNews @MoscowTimes. 
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/03/09/power-cut-at-ukraines-chernobyl-no-critical-safety-impact-a76844

 
 

SECOND HOUR        

10-1015  
#Ukraine: Side by side: the Ukrainian and the Russian Orthodox churches of Carnegie, PA. Salina Zito, CNN, New York Post; author, The Great Revolt. @SalenaZito 
SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer
https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/insight/2022/03/06/salena-zito-ukraine-crisis-brings-out-the-best-in-americans/stories/202203060046
 
 

1015-1030       
#Ukraine: The energy companies of Western Pennsylvania ready for the war. Salina Zito, CNN, New York Post; author, The Great Revolt. @SalenaZito 
SalenaZito.com  @DCExaminer
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/an-energy-company-shows-students-the-path-to-prosperity?fbclid=IwAR3mzHq4w560Z1iqm2CXGVcZbtBasNgfiEDJiK37ZeaNd1afBc2yjEIPW4w
 
 

1030-1045       
#Ukraine: The war comes to UK startup Skyrora. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/uk-rocket-startup-skyrora-badly-impacted-by-the-ukraine-war/
 
 

1045-1100      
#PRC denies its booster crashed on the far side of the Moon. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/chinese-rocket-stage-impacts-moon/
 

THIRD HOUR        

1100-1115 
#Ukraine: Modi balances maneuvers between the PRC threat and the Russian presence. @CleoPaskal  @FDD @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
Cleo Paskal, non-resident Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
https://www.reuters.com/world/indias-modi-urges-russias-putin-hold-direct-talks-with-ukraine-president-source-2022-03-07/
 

1115-1130      
#Ukraine: China looks at buying Russian energy companies. Dr. Jonathan D. T. Ward, @jonathandtward; Atlas Organization; author, China's Vision of Victory. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/07/white-house-investment-rules-china-00014496
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-08/china-considers-buying-stakes-in-russian-energy-commodity-firms
Dr. Jonathan D. T. Ward is the Founder of Atlas Organization, a consultancy focused on the rise of China and India and the new geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific.
 
 
1130-1145      
#Ukraine: Taiwan alerted. Stephen Yates  @YatesDCIA,, former deputy national security advisor to Vice President Cheney and currently CEO of DC International Advisory and chair of the America First Policy Institute's new China Policy Initiative. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/ukraine-war-chinese-caution-taiwan-russia-china-putin-xi-jinping-invasion-sovereignty-11646769700
 

1145-1200      
#Ukraine: More Putin nuke cards. Peter Huessy, senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-threatens-nuke-world-opinion-1685241
 

FOURTH HOUR        

12-1215 
#Ukraine: Russian military stumbles. George Friedman, Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures.  @George_Friedman @GPFutures
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/evaluating-russias-performance-in-ukraine/?tpa=YjRjZTc0Nzg2MTYwZjc2YzE2NTAxMTE2NDc1MzEyOTVmNDM3NGE&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https://geopoliticalfutures.com/evaluating-russias-performance-in-ukraine/?tpa=YjRjZTc0Nzg2MTYwZjc2YzE2NTAxMTE2NDc1MzEyOTVmNDM3NGE&utm_content&utm_campaign=PAID%20-%20Everything%20as%20it%27s%20published
 
 

1215-1230       
#Ukraine: PRC watches the US moves from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs.  
 

1230-1245     
#Ukraine: Putin deters NATO. @AmbJohnBolton @Time
https://time.com/6155990/russia-ukraine-invasion-deterrence/ 
 
 

1245-100 AM       
#Ukraine: The Russian Central Bank in freefall and the Russian economy in failure. Michael Bernstam, @HooverInst; research Fellow at the Hoover Institution,; Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/russia-s-central-bank-caps-hard-currency-withdrawals-from-commercial-banks-at-10000/ar-AAUR7n1