GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Iraq, asking about the origin and threat of the militias in league with Iran...
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 28 January 2025
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1923 Baghdad
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR 9-915 1/2: #IRAQ: AFGHANISTAN: YEMEN: Jihadist depth chart. Bill Roggio, FDD 915-930 2/2: #IRAQ: AFGHANISTAN: YEMEN: Jihadist depth chart. Bill Roggio, FDD 930-945 UKRAINE: Both incremental battle space achievements. John Hardie, Bill Roggio FDD 945-1000 #UKRAINE: Both incremental battle space achievements. John Hardie, Bill Roggio FDD
SECOND HOUR 10-1015 #GAZA: IDF hostages drugged by Hamas, Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness 1015-1030 #LEBANON: Hezbollah conspires with the LAF. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness 1030-1045 #ISRAEL The untrusted Hamas and the ceasefire. David Daoud and Bill Roggio, FDD 1045-1100 #WEST BANK: Front awakened. David Daoud, Bill Roggio FDD
THIRD HOUR 1100-1115 #NewWorldReport: #Colombia Gustavo Petro backs down. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire 1115-1130 #NewWorldReport: #MEXICO: Aims to cooperate. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire 1130-1145 #NewWorldReport: StateSec Rubio to Panama and Central America. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire 1145-1200 #NewWorldReport: Argentina grows GDP. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire
FOURTH HOUR 12-1215 #Russia: POTUS seeks Ukraine resolution with Moscow. Katrina Vanden Heuvel, The Nation 1215-1230 LA: Showing compassion for the homeless and despairing. @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness 1230-1245 #PRC: Foreign investment fleeing. Alan Tonelson, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 1245-100 am Nukes: DoD orders Nuclear Posture Review. Peter Huessy, Gordon Chang @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchelor. Good evening. The show begins tonight in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen. |
| 0:06.8 | Iraq for the militias that continue harassing the region, threatening the U.S. and its allies, |
| 0:14.6 | linked to Tehran, but not entirely beholden to Tehran. These are Iraqi militias. One is called notably Qatib Hezbollah, well-organized, |
| 0:24.3 | and they existed before the Iraq War, before the Kuwait War. These are long-standing organizations, |
| 0:31.6 | gangs, military gangs. Also Afghanistan. What is to be done? The ICC, which is not accepted by the U.S. |
| 0:42.4 | and its allies, has now named two prominent members of the Taliban government in Kabul as war criminals. |
| 0:51.2 | In addition, Yemen, the Houthis remain unsolved. |
| 0:55.8 | They continue to harass traffic in the Red Sea, and that is a threat to the global economy. |
| 1:04.0 | To Ukraine, John Hardy joins from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy. |
| 1:08.9 | Bill Raja, who reported on the jihadist, stays with me as my co-host. |
| 1:14.4 | Incremental movement on the battle space these last two weeks for both sides. |
| 1:19.4 | The Russians not making success in the Kersk's salient. |
| 1:23.0 | That's Russian territory. |
| 1:25.3 | And the Ukrainians not holding back the Russians from incremental demands |
| 1:30.5 | advances in the Ukrainian territory. The larger story is can President Trump bring something |
| 1:39.6 | that will settle this off the battlefield, such as a negotiation with the Kremlin and Beijing. |
| 1:48.0 | And then turning to the hostages in Israel, several have been returned, more are promised, |
| 1:56.3 | but Hamas does not keep its bargains easily. And there's been an eruption and there's no confidence |
| 2:02.0 | that the truths or ceasefire as is negotiated can be followed through. Many of the hostages are |
| 2:09.8 | dead. It's a grieving time in Israel. At the same time, Lebanon is not solved. The ceasefire is |
| 2:16.5 | extended till mid-February, but is not much of a |
| 2:19.2 | ceasefire. Hezbollah provokes and threatens their arms all through the southern part of Lebanon. |
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