CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915
#Ukraine: Drone attack of the refineries. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

https://qz.com/ukraine-drone-strike-russia-oil-elections-economy-1851336275

 

915-930
#WorldWar2:  The little wars that became a global war. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2024-03-17/it-s-looking-like-world-war-ii-out-there-with-russia-china-iran?cmpid=BBD031824_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=240318&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily&embedded-checkout=true
 

930-945
#IRAN:  Rewarding Tehran for predation and nuclear blackmail. Richard Goldberg, FDD

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/03/14/biden-continues-irans-access-to-10-billion-just-weeks-after-its-proxy-killed-three-american-soldiers/

945-1000
#ISRAEL: Creating a Defense Industrial Base. Richard Goldberg, FDD
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/03/14/how-to-ensure-israel-has-the-weapons-it-needs/

 

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#PRC: Beijing's Captured American executives from Tim Cook to Ray Dalio attending the CCP call.  Jonathan Ward, Hudson Institute. 

Jonathan Ward, author of The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

 https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippines-foreign-minister-says-challenge-is-how-sustain-elevate-us-2024-03-19/

1015-1030
#PRC: The property hole in the pocket. Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of the upcoming Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-property-foreclosures-surge-growth-095915227.html

 
https://www.scmp.com/economy/economic-indicators/article/3255834/chinas-economy-rebounds-do-mixed-signals-mean-it-will-be-short-lived-6-takeaways-january-february

 
1030-1045
#PRC: #PLANavy: What of the Drone submersibles? 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/), @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:

https://www.newsweek.com/pentagon-plans-sea-drone-fleet-possible-china-war-1879309

 

1045-1100
#NIGER: The US ordered out: RU, CN, IR invited in. Rebecca Grant, president of IRIS Independent Research and a visiting fellow of the Lexington Institute, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4539830-niger-ends-us-military-deal/

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

#LAWFARE: The Courts enter into partisan warfare, Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/guilty-but-not-really-guilty/

1115-1130

#IMMIGRATION: Open border & What is to be done? Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution.

https://amgreatness.com/2024/03/14/elite-heaven-or-real-hell-on-earth/

1130-1145

#GAZA: The Biden Administration avoids the genuine threat. Ambassador John Bolton, NYPost.

https://nypost.com/2024/03/13/opinion/bidens-incoherent-israel-approach-only-prolongs-the-conflict-and-the-gaza-suffering/
 

1145-1200

#SERBIA: The Kremlin's choice of a New Front vs NATO.  Ivana Stradner, FDD.  Mark Montgomery FDD.

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/03/18/putin-wants-war-in-the-balkans/

 

 

 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#FRANCE: . Testing our cybersecurity know-how. Simon Constable, WSJ 

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/cyber-security-history-quiz-772216f0

1215-1230

#TIKTOK: The threat & What is to be done? Craig Singleton, FDD

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/03/18/its-not-just-a-theory-tiktoks-ties-to-chinese-government-are-dangerous/

 

1230-1245

#SPACEX: What next and next and next for the magnificent Superheavy? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacexs-next-superheavy-starship-launch-according-to-spacex/

1245-100 am

#APOLLO: Tom Stafford RIP. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/apollo-astronaut-tom-stafford-passes-away-at-93/