The John Batchelor Show

Monday 25 April 2022

Air Date: 
April 25, 2022

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915         
#Ukraine: The Russian battlefield as the Ukrainian heavy artillery arrives.  Bradley Bowman  @Brad_L_Bowman
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-april-24
 

915-930          
#Ukraine: NATO transformed.   Bradley Bowman  @Brad_L_Bowman
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_192648.htm
 
 

930-945          
#Pakistan: Taliban provocations; Imran Khan provocations.
Husain Haqqani @husainhaqqani, former Pakistani Ambassador to the United States; Director, South & Central Asia,  Hudson Institute 
https://gandhara.rferl.org/a/pakistan-air-strikes-afghanistan-taliban-relations/31814993.html
 

945-1000          
#Afghanistan: ISIS provocations: Taliban falsehoods. @BillRoggio @ FDD
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/22/middleeast/afghanistan-mosque-explosion-intl/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/22/afghanistan-isis-arrest-attacks-security/
 

SECOND HOUR

10-1015          
#Ukraine: Puzzling Putin before February 24, 2022. Katrina vanden Heuvel, @KatrinaNation  @TheNation
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/24/vladimir-putin-despot-russia-viktor-yuschenko
 

1015-1030          
#France: Peak Macron. Veronique de Rugy, @veroderugy,  @GeorgeMasonU, @Mercatus Center, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University & NRO Online.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/25/macron-set-to-name-frances-next-pm-as-focus-moves-to-legislative-elections
 

1030-1045          
#PRC: USMC Battle for the First Island Chain. James Holmes @NavalWarCollege, first holder of the Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College, and blogger at The Naval Diplomat.  @NavalWarCollege. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/04/how-china-would-wage-war-against-the-great-wall-in-reverse/
James Holmes, first holder of the Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and blogger at The Naval Diplomat (https://navaldiplomat.com/),
 

1045-1100          
#PRC: #Russia: No more US ASAT tests; & What is to be done? Rick Fisher  @CSIS. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.vandenberg.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3004297/vice-president-kamala-harris-visits-vandenberg-makes-historic-announcement-furt/
Rick Fisher @CSIS, senior Fellow of the International Assessment and Strategy Center.
 

THIRD HOUR
 
1100-1115          
#Syria: Replacing Russian mercenaries with Iranian mercenaries.  Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1  @ThadMcCotter   @theamgreatness
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-deploying-20-000-syrian-071215703.html
 
 

1115-1130          
#Indiana Hoenlein and the Lost. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1  @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
https://news.yahoo.com/library-lines-remembering-horror-holocaust-041506165.html
 

1130-1145          
#UnitedNations: Do away with the veto? @AmbJohnBolton
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/3461994-bidens-unforced-error-at-the-united-nations/ 
 

1145-1200           
#HotJupiter: What we know so far. Ken Croswell, Science News
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hot-jupiter-orbit-sun-close-gravity-star-planet
 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215          
#NewWorldReport: Mexico, the DEA and the Border.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister of Brazil
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/exclusive-mexico-shuts-elite-investigations-unit-blow-us-drugs-cooperation-2022-04-19/
 

1215-1230           
#NewWorldReport:  More turmoil in Peru.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc.  Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister of Brazil
https://www.securefreesociety.org
 
 
1230-1245:          
#NewWorldReport:  Colombia and Brazil campaigning.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister of Brazil
https://www.securefreesociety.org
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/colombia-s-petro-extends-lead-one-month-from-presidential-election/ar-AAWuadr
https://news.yahoo.com/much-joy-brazil-holds-first-092938463.htm
 

1245-100 AM          
#NewWorldReport:  Chile rethinks its constitution.   Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc.  Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister of Brazil
https://www.securefreesociety.org
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chile-constitution/chile-constitutional-assembly-knocks-back-ambitious-environmental-proposals-idUSKCN2MD1EU