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Good evening: The show begins in Kashmir, measuring the fog of war.....
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CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR 9:00-9:15 #Kashmir: Escalation. Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (Retired) @McCauslJ @CBSNews @DickinsonCol 9:15-9:30 #Yemen: Escalating. Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (Retired) @McCauslJ @CBSNews @DickinsonCol 9:30-9:45 #Kashmir: Terror Camps. Bill Roggio, FDD 9:45-10:00 #Russia: Sinking Price of Oil. Michael Bernstam, Hoover
SECOND HOUR 10:00-10:15 #Taiwan: Ever Threatened. Gerrit van der Wees, adjunct professor at George Washington University's Elliott School of Foreign Affairs and George Mason University Schar School of Government 10:15-10:30#PRC: Dead Cat. Andrew Collier, managing director of Orient Capital Research and author of new book, "China's Technology War: Why Beijing Took Down Its Tech Giants," @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 10:30-10:45 #Losing Aircraft. Rebecca Grant, vice president of the Lexington Institute 10:45-11:00 #Losing Nimitz. James Fanell, co-author of "Embracing Communist China: America's Greatest Strategic Failure" and government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy
THIRD HOUR 11:00-11:15 #NewWorldReport: Venezuela Rescue. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @REvanEllis #NewWorldReportEllis 11:15-11:30 #NewWorldReport: Best Investment 2025. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @REvanEllis #NewWorldReportEllis 11:30-11:45 #NewWorldReport: Surinam Rising. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @REvanEllis #NewWorldReportEllis 11:45-12:00 #NewWorldReport: Murder in Peru. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @REvanEllis #NewWorldReportEllis
FOURTH HOUR 12:00-12:15 #EU: Lights Out Spain and Portugal. Simon Constable, Occitanie 12:15-12:30 #France: Ex-Patriotism Means Lots of Paper. Simon Constable, Occitanie 12:30-12:45 #SpaceX: Starbase, TX. Bob Zimmerman, BehindTheBlack.com 12:45-1:00 AM #Pulsar: At The Core. Bob Zimmerman, BehindTheBlack.com
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. This is John Batchelor. The show begins tonight in Kashmir. Escalation underway is |
| 0:11.7 | discussed with Colonel McCausland, U.S. Army retired artillerymen. There is artillery exchange between |
| 0:18.6 | the India and Pakistan armies as well. |
| 0:22.6 | Mostly the action was attack on terror camps and retaliation is in train, says Pakistan. |
| 0:29.4 | It also was air combat. |
| 0:31.6 | Pakistan is reporting five down Indian jets, three of them French made, two of them Russian made. |
| 0:38.8 | Fog of war, however, |
| 0:46.4 | these are not facts. These are reports. Kashmir has been fought over ever since partitioned between two very capable militaries in forbidding territory, the mountainous region of the line |
| 0:52.8 | of control. Pakistan to the mountainous region of the line of control. |
| 0:59.9 | Pakistan to the west, China to the east, India to the south, |
| 1:07.1 | and what we have here is a conflagration potential, very large. |
| 1:14.1 | However, moving from Kashmir, checking in on the Russian aggression against Ukraine, |
| 1:21.5 | what's happened is the price of oil has collapsed. And with it, Russia's opportunity to fill its budget with money. Right now, there is no plan except for higher taxes and perhaps what should have to say |
| 1:30.3 | foregoing social engineering that would be helping pensioners and maintaining hospitals. |
| 1:38.3 | The state does a lot of that in Russia. Still, private enterprise is not healthy unless you, well, in any event, the state's social spending is prodigious. |
| 1:52.3 | And borrowing from that in order to continue the war effort is a game. |
| 1:58.9 | We shall see. |
| 2:00.2 | Turn to Taiwan, Garrett Van der Weiss from George Washington and George Mason |
| 2:04.5 | comments on the continuing threat to Taiwan by the People's Republic, though in the course of the |
| 2:10.2 | evening, Gordon Chang and myself and James Vinell and others discussed the possibility that Philippines |
| 2:16.6 | will be the target. |
| 2:25.0 | It's the weak link and the chain of sovereignties put together to defend from the potential of the PRC. |
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