CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR         

9-915  
After the pandemic, disorder. Daniel Henninger.  @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion
https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-deserve-to-lose-midterms-2022-cancel-culture-leftists-progressives-san-francisco-recall-election-11645654233
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/russia-ukraine-invasion-jmk0vm8gg
 

915-930       
Vietnam-era inflation road ahead. Jim McTague, @McTagueJ, former Washington Editor, @Barrons Washington. 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/consumer-spending-january-2022-inflation-omicron-11645735669?mod=hp_lead_pos3

930-945       
Refugees, costs, trade, and the diplomats. Anton La Guardia @AntonLaGuardia, @TheEconomist;  
https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/02/24/russia-invades-ukraine?utm_campaign=r.&utm_medium=email.internal-newsletter.np&utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&utm_term=2/24/2022&utm_id=1060272
Anton La Guardia  @AntonLaGuardia, @TheEconomist;  diplomatic editor at The Economist. 
 
945-1000  
The Classical Liberal, and Sanctions. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst
https://www.wsj.com/articles/vladimir-putins-new-world-disorder-russia-invades-ukraine-europe-joe-biden-sanctions-11645707309
 

 

 

SECOND HOUR 

 

10-1015    
1/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy  
https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Folly-History-Missile-Crisis/dp/0393540812/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban missile crisis.
Serhii Plokhy’s Nuclear Folly offers an international perspective on the crisis, tracing the tortuous decision-making that produced and then resolved it, which involved John Kennedy and his advisers, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and their commanders on the ground. In breathtaking detail, Plokhy vividly recounts the young JFK being played by the canny Khrushchev; the hotheaded Castro willing to defy the USSR and threatening to align himself with China; the Soviet troops on the ground clearing jungle foliage in the tropical heat, and desperately trying to conceal nuclear installations on Cuba, which were nonetheless easily spotted by U-2 spy planes; and the hair-raising near misses at sea that nearly caused a Soviet nuclear-armed submarine to fire its weapons . . . 

1015-1030   2/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy  

1030-1045   3/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy  

1045-1100   4/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy  
 

THIRD HOUR        

1100-1115   5/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy  
1115-1130   6/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy   

1130-1145   7/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy   

1145-1200  8/8:  Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy   
 
 

FOURTH HOUR       

12-1215 
Inflation, war, pandemic, inflation.   Veronique de Rugy  @veroderugy,  @GeorgeMasonU, @Mercatus
https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/02/22/why-experts-should-embrace-humility-after-their-inflation-miscalculation
Veronique de Rugy, @veroderugy,  @GeorgeMasonU, @Mercatus Center, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University & NRO Online.

1215-1230       
#Ukraine:  Lessons Learned, Georgia 2008. Josh Rogin @joshrogin   @WashingtonPost 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/24/ex-georgia-president-saakashvili-lessons-georgia-2008-invasion-ukraine/
 

1230-1245       
#Ukraine: Rogozin vs POTUS on the future of ISS. Bob Zimmerman  BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/space-spat-between-biden-and-rogozin-over-russian-invasion-of-ukraine/
 

1245-100 AM        
Extremophile-like object on Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/curiosity-images-the-martian-version-of-a-cave-formation/