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GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Kyiv fretting about recruits; then to Gaza and the next offensive. To Iran for the missile arsenal, to Washington and the TikTok vote, to Imperial China and to Maoist China. To Delhi for the Modi campaign, to France for th

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Kyiv fretting about recruits; then to Gaza and the next offensive. To Iran for the missile arsenal, to Washington and the TikTok vote, to Imperial China and to Maoist China. To Delhi for the Modi campaign, to France for the flooding. To Boeng and Starliner delays. To the surface of the sun. Finally Haiti, Venezuela, Argnetina and Panama al in distress.

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Good evening. The show begins tonight in Ukraine. The headlines in London say that Ukraine is looking to draft to recruit

0:28.0

to gather 500,000 more soldiers anticipating the Russian offensive in the spring, 500,000.

0:38.9

And the Financial Times at least is dubious, and can it be done. Then to Rafa, the RFA operation, my conversation

0:49.2

with Colonel Jeff McCausen, the United States Army retired CBS News.

0:54.6

Raffa is the last component of the Israeli Defense Force's offensive against Hamas

1:01.6

and the gangsters, most entirely underground but hiding in

1:05.1

the population in Gaza. The Raf operation is imminent. It will not wait, it's my

1:12.2

information, it will not wait for the building of the floating dock or for any other

1:18.6

ceasefire that cannot be negotiated. Realistically, Hamas doesn't offer negotiating terms, it offers

1:27.4

a maximalist position, looking for either martyrdom or some other intervention.

1:34.8

I'm told that Hamas will consider it a victory if one is left who raises his wounded

1:41.4

right hand with a Hamas flag.

1:43.2

Quite foolishness.

1:45.6

The foolishness of pirates who are trapped.

1:49.8

Then off to Iran to discuss the arsenal built by the Islamic Republic of Iran these last years

1:56.0

based on North Korean models and R&D in North Korea.

2:01.3

Distributing their missiles with very good packages to target to the

2:09.2

huthies and to Hezbollah and what is to be done?

2:15.2

Because Iran is a very lethal manufacturer of very lethal missiles, I'm told by Ben and Ben Talibou of the Foundation for the

2:25.0

Defense of Democracy expanding on his column published as an op-ed in the Wall Street

2:29.9

Journal recently. Brandon Weicker joins myself in Gordon Chang

2:34.4

to talk about the vote in the House of Representatives

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