CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

#Ukraine:  Where is the Russian airpower?  Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-april-16-2023

915-930

#Philippines:  Challenging the #PRC directly. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/philippines-us-begin-joint-troop-exercis-idUSKBN2W80DQ

930-945

#SpaceX: Waiting. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/watching-the-second-attempt-to-launch-starship-superheavy-to-orbit/

945-1000

#Mars: Ingenuity for its closeup. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ingenuity-in-close-up-after-two-years-on-mars/

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#Russia: How Russia evades energy and technology sanctions. Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/business/economy/us-russia-chips-sanctions.html?searchResultPosition=1

1015-1030

#Russia: Rosatom remains largely without sanctions & What is to be done? andrea Stricker, FDD

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/04/18/g7-members-announce-plan-to-reduce-nuclear-fuel-dependence-on-russia/

1030-1045

#France: #Scotland: Troubled SNP campaigning against Scotch Whiskey in Scotland. Simon Constable, Occitane 

https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/other/snp-in-humiliating-u-turn-after-uproar-from-scotch-whisky-industry/ar-AA1a0Olf

1045-1100

##NorthKorea: Solid fuel ICBM demonstration & What is to be done? John Bolton, 1945.com

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/04/it-is-not-too-late-to-stop-north-koreas-rogue-nuclear-march/

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

##PRC: #Russia: #USA: Seapower bests Russia and PRC in Eurasia. George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures.

https://geopoliticalfutures.com/author/gfriedman/

 

1115-1130

#POTUS: the steady loss of geopolitical deterrence: the Gulf, #Afghanistan: #Taiwan: Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/14/the-biden-10-step-plan-for-global-chaos/

 

1130-1145

#DoD: The leaks & What is to be done? Patrick Tucker, Defense One

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2023/04/why-pentagons-response-discord-leaks-wont-fix-problem/385359/

1145-1200

#AI: One AI stop search for surveillance balloons anywhere on the planet. Patrick Tucker, Defense One

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2023/04/chatgpt-satellite-photos-already-exists/385305/

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#PRC: Germany supports Taiwan. Stephen Yates, chair of the America First Policy Institute's China Policy Initiative, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://www.reuters.com/world/china-hopes-germany-supports-peaceful-taiwan-reunification-foreign-ministry-2023-04-15/

1215-1230

#PRC: What kind of decoupling? Alan Tonelson, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets at @AlanTonelson, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-allies-weigh-how-to-reduce-economic-ties-with-china-8f5321ab

 

1230-1245

#PRC: #Canada: Beijing abuses Ottawa. Charles Burton, senior fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-fbi-finds-canadian-link-in-covert-chinese-police-station-probe/

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/china-denies-secret-nyc-police-station-after-fbi-arrests-accuses-us-of-malice/4251636/

 

1245-100 am

#PRC: Philippines: Countering the South China Sea fortified isllands. James Fanell, government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and retired U.S. Navy captain who served as director of Intelligence and Information Operations of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65236459