GOOD EVENING:The show begins in Damascus under the control of Jihadists...
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 10 December 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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1910 Damascus
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
9:00-9:15
Syria: Is al-Jolani Al Qaeda/ISIS? (Part 1)
Guests: Bill Roggio, FDD; Husain Haqqani, Hudson Institute
9:15-9:30
Syria: Is al-Jolani Al Qaeda/ISIS? (Part 2)
Guests: Bill Roggio, FDD; Husain Haqqani, Hudson Institute
9:30-9:45
Syria: Hezbollah and IRGC After Assad Flight
Guests: David Daoud, Bill Roggio, FDD
9:45-10:00
Syria: Regional Impact After Assad Flight
Guests: David Daoud, Bill Roggio, FDD
SECOND HOUR
10:00-10:15
Syria: Regional Powers Adapt to Strategic Surprise (Part 1)
Guest: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents
10:15-10:30
Syria: Regional Powers Adapt to Strategic Surprise (Part 2)
Guest: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents
10:30-10:45
Ukraine: Kyiv Reports 400,000 Casualties (Part 1)
Guests: John Hardie, Bill Roggio, FDD
10:45-11:00
Ukraine: Kyiv Reports 400,000 Casualties (Part 2)
Guests: John Hardie, Bill Roggio, FDD
THIRD HOUR
11:00-11:15
New World Report: Hezbollah in Latin America
Guests: Joseph Humire, Secure Free Society; Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister of Brazil
11:15-11:30
New World Report: Paraguay Resists PRC Threat
Guests: Joseph Humire, Secure Free Society; Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister of Brazil
11:30-11:45
Hong Kong: Liberty Under Prosecution
Guest: Mark Clifford
11:45-12:00
Malaysia: PRC Investment Decline
Guest: Charles Ortel
FOURTH HOUR
12:00-12:15
North Korea: 2026 Wargame Scenario (Part 1)
Guest: Henry Sokolski, NPEC
12:15-12:30
North Korea: 2026 Wargame Scenario (Part 2)
Guest: Henry Sokolski, NPEC
12:30-12:45
Canada: America's Ally's Self-Defense
Guest: Conrad Black, National Post
12:45-1:00 AM
ISIS: CENTCOM B-52 Operations
Guest: Patrick Tucker, Defense One
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. This is John Batchel. The show begins to nut in Syria asking Bill Rajo of the FD, |
| 0:10.1 | who is Abu Muhammad al-Jalani? Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Turkey, who is he? Where does he come from? What's he |
| 0:18.7 | want? Hussain Okani, a former ambassador from Pakistan to the United States now at the Hudson Institute joins to comment on the scale of turmoil throughout the UMA, all capitals, not just the Arab capitals, with the fall of the Assad regime after 30 years. |
| 0:37.3 | Then to what does Hezbollah and the IRGC do mean, |
| 0:43.1 | organized after the Assad flight, |
| 0:45.5 | cutting Tehran off from Beirut, |
| 0:48.1 | the direct route to ship in arms and men, equipment, money. |
| 0:53.0 | Hezbollah is cut off and reduced. |
| 0:55.4 | What of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey, |
| 0:58.3 | discussing all that with Bill and Hussein. |
| 1:01.9 | Then to Malcolm Honline to talk about |
| 1:04.7 | what we have in front of us is a challenge to Israel, |
| 1:09.2 | already conducting itself with the Hamas war, |
| 1:12.7 | with the Hezbollah fight in the north, and now needing to secure the Syrian frontier. |
| 1:19.8 | IDF moving into the Golan Heights to provide security to the Druze villages on the Golan Heights, |
| 1:25.9 | also into Mount Hermon, the high point of the region, |
| 1:30.2 | and setting up shop temporarily, says the IDF. But then again, Syria is no longer an organized state. |
| 1:38.0 | It's a failed state with a jihadist as the claiming to be ruler of a failed state. Not a good formula. Is this going to go |
| 1:48.7 | Libya's way faster or slower? There's no successful example in the Arab Spring of a turmoil |
| 1:56.1 | like this leading to peace and equanimity. |
| 2:02.9 | We'll see where this is going, |
| 2:05.5 | but there's a lot of violence ahead of us and a lot of guns and chemical weapons |
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