The John Batchelor Show

Wednesday 25 May 2022

Air Date: 
May 25, 2022

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915       
#Ukraine: Japan, Poland and Turkey emerge. George Friedman.  @George_Friedman @GPFutures, Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures   
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/a-new-old-global-reality/?tpa=ZjNlZTU1MDk0YWFjODEyNjhhYjk4YTE2NTQxODQxMjM0YmE5MTc&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https://geopoliticalfutures.com/a-new-old-global-reality/?tpa=ZjNlZTU1MDk0YWFjODEyNjhhYjk4YTE2NTQxODQxMjM0YmE5MTc&utm_content&utm_campaign=PAID%20-%20Everything%20as%20it%27s%20published
https://www.airforcetimes.com/global/europe/2022/05/24/poland-requests-six-additional-patriot-batteries-from-the-united-states/
 
 

915-930      
#Russia: Vienna and Budapest dissent. George Friedman.  @George_Friedman @GPFutures, Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures  
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/from-paris-to-vienna/?tpa=ZjNlZTU1MDk0YWFjODEyNjhhYjk4YTE2NTQxODQxMjM0YmE5MTc&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https://geopoliticalfutures.com/from-paris-to-vienna/?tpa=ZjNlZTU1MDk0YWFjODEyNjhhYjk4YTE2NTQxODQxMjM0YmE5MTc&utm_content&utm_campaign=PAID%20-%20Everything%20as%20it%27s%20published
 
 

930-945        
#Markets: Wheat spikes; & What is to be done? Simon Constable, Barron's
https://www.barrons.com/articles/wheat-prices-rally-51652981251
Simon Constable  Forbes Edinburgh; economist, journalist, currently based in Scotland; and author, The WSJ Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators That Really Matter: From Big Macs to "Zombie Banks," the Indicators Smart Investors Watch to Beat the Market
 

945-1000        
#Keystone: The price of everything climbs. SalenaZito.com
azette.com/opinion/insight/2022/05/22/rhetoric-versus-realism-pump-formula-aisle-salena-zito/stories/202205220037?cid=search
 

SECOND HOUR
 

10-1015       
#Ukraine:  Twelve miles.  Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (retired) @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1615163/Ukraine-NATO-supplied-howitzer-missiles-destroy-Russian-military-base-vn
Jeff McCausland, @mccauslJ  CBS News. Dickinson College Diamondsix.com
 

1015-1030        
#Russia: #PRC: One global hegemon. Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (retired) @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
https://www.ft.com/content/2b77473c-44d8-4b27-98f8-07c096f5302c
Jeff McCausland, @mccauslJ  CBS News. Dickinson College Diamondsix.com
 
 

1030-1045        
#Russia: Sovereign debt to fail. Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10853255/Russia-edges-closer-debt-default-100-years-cuts-ability-pay-creditors.html
 
Michael S. Bernstam, a research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, is an economic demographer who studies the centrality of income redistribution for the taxonomy and evolution of economic systems, long-run economic growth, demographic transition, social revolutions, conflict, and other social changes.
 
 

1045-1100        
#Ukraine: #AfterAfghanistan: Intelligence failure. John Bolton, WSJ Opinion.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/25/biden-administration-publicizes-classified-information/
 

THIRD HOUR
 

1100-1115        
#HongKong: Twenty-five years after the handover. Andrew Collier, managing director of Orient Capital Research in Hong Kong.  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3178977/bidens-indo-pacific-economic-framework-unlikely-drive-japanese-and
 

1115-1130        
#India: Abstained. Nitin Gokhale, strategic affairs analyst based in Delhi.
@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.   
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/india-says-quad-countries-understand-its-position-ukraine-2022-05-24/
Nitin Gokhale @nitingokhale. National Security Analyst. http://BharatShakti.in and @StratNewsGlobal.com 
 

1130-1145        
#Ukraine:  Taiwan: One-battle theater. 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.19fortyfive.com/2022/05/europe-and-east-asia-all-part-of-the-same-theater-for-america/
James Holmes @NavalWarCollege, first holder of the Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College, and blogger at The Naval Diplomat.  @NavalWarCollege. 
 

1145-1200        
#Japan: Provocation over the Sea of Japan. Rick Fisher, senior Fellow of the International Assessment and Strategy Center.  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.ft.com/content/2b77473c-44d8-4b27-98f8-07c096f5302c
 
 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215        
#Australia: The new government and AUKUS. Gregory Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs.  
https://apnews.com/article/australia-beijing-china-trade-barriers-e8949657e2352ff7d2f813cab07e44c0
 
 
1215-1230        
#Oceania: Watch on New Guinea and the Solomons. Gregory Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs.  
 

1230-1245        
#Ukraine: Kissinger recommends partition. Gregory Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs.  
https://www.wsj.com/articles/dueling-approaches-to-world-order-war-ukraine-putin-russia-china-davos-kissinger-soros-foreign-policy-peace-11653509537
 
 

1245-100 AM     
#Climate: Adapt and Be Adept    Terry Anderson, @HooverInst, Hoover Institution senior Fellow; founder and past president, PERC, The Property and Environment Research Center, Montana.  
https://www.amazon.com/Adapt-Be-Adept-Responses-Climate/dp/0817924558