GOOD EVENING. The show begins in Iraq, hearing the threats of the Iran backed Shia militia to intervene if Israel attacks Hezbolah.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
FIRST HOUR
- #IRAQ: Iranian-backed Iraqi Shia militias threaten to intervene in Gaza
- #GAZA: Bill Roggio says there are no partners for counterinsurgency
- #UKRAINE: Russia's 98th Guards Airborne struggles at Chasiv Yar
- #MOSCOW #KYIV: Discussion on how the candidates addressed the Ukraine conflict
SECOND HOUR
- #KeystoneReport: Salena Zito on the challenge for candidates to win Pennsylvania
- #PacificWatch #VegasReport: Gavin Newsom eyed as potential Biden replacement
- #PRC: Concerns over China's actions in East Asia
THIRD HOUR
- #SCOTUS: Discussion with Richard Epstein on presidential immunity
- #RUSSIA: Katrina Vanden Heuvel on the Kremlin's view of the candidates
- #GAZA #LEBANON: Hamas control in Gaza, Hezbollah provocation in Lebanon
FOURTH HOUR
- #NewWorldReport: Analysis of events in Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay
1932 Baghdad
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. The show begins tonight in Iraq a conversation with Bill Rajo about |
| 0:06.0 | Iraq militia backed by Tehran, Assad, Assad al-A-Ahak. We've seen this before. They're killers. They're responsible for the death of lots of American |
| 0:16.7 | service personnel during the occupation of Iraq. They're threatening to intervene in the Gaza War. Similar threats |
| 0:26.3 | from the Taliban, from Tehran itself, from the Houthis. What they really mean is that they're threatening that they will attack if Israel |
| 0:35.2 | attacks the Hezbollah. Hezbollah is peppering the north of Israel with drones and |
| 0:40.5 | rockets and anti-tank missiles. |
| 0:44.7 | What is to be done? |
| 0:46.7 | Seth Francman of the Jerusalem Post was positive today that Israel doesn't want a war in |
| 0:51.5 | the north, but it has the problem of moving Hezbollah back 10-14 miles past |
| 0:58.1 | the Latani River so that they can't easily cross the border and launch a raid similar to October 7th. |
| 1:04.0 | Remember that was their plan. |
| 1:06.0 | Hamas took it up. |
| 1:08.2 | And then we moved to Ukraine and talk with John Hardy of FTD, BillD. Bill is also F.T. |
| 1:14.0 | About the Siege of Ches of Yarr, the 98th Guards Airborne Division, |
| 1:19.0 | is grappling with the Ukraine. |
| 1:21.0 | The town from a drone photograph I saw in Bill's Long War Journal looks |
| 1:26.4 | like the end of the world. The no-go zone of Chernobyl plus Byrneasades. Ukraine needs to be rebuilt. It's a tear down. |
| 1:40.0 | Appalling. Moscow, next. |
| 1:44.0 | How did Moscow view President Biden's uneven performance? |
| 1:49.0 | We're told that Mr Putin was asleep and the rest of Moscow didn't wake itself up in the morning was enough. |
| 1:55.4 | Remember there plus eight hours. |
| 1:59.1 | So Mr. Biden went on about 5 o'clock in the morning. Early rises would have seen some of it. |
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