Good evening: The show begins in Russia with the three major demands by the Kremlin for war end: regime change; annexation of Donbass, no NATO...E
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🗓️ 17 April 2025
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Good evening: The show begins in Russia with the three major demands by the Kremlin for war end: regime change; annexation of Donbass, no NATO...
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FIRST HOUR 9-9:15 - UKRAINE: Iron Pants Molotov Then and Now. Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (Retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
9:15-9:30 - Ukraine: NATO Plans w/wo USA. Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (Retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
9:30-9:45 - 1/2: Titanic: Carpathia to the Rescue. Charlie Pellegrino, "Farewell Titanic." "The Californian Incident."
9:45-10:00 - 2/2: Titanic: Carpathia to the Rescue. Charlie Pellegrino, "Farewell Titanic." "The Californian Incident."
SECOND HOUR 10-10:15 - PRC: Alan Tonelson, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets at @AlanTonelson, @gordongchang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://fortune.com/2025/04/14/trump-trade-war-china-tariffs-imports-imbalance/
10:15-10:30 - PRC: Nukes: Peter Huessy, president of Geostrategic Analysis and a fellow at the National Institute for Deterrence Studies, @gordongchang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
10:30-10:45 - Canada: Charles Burton, senior fellow at Sinopsis, @gordongchang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/chinese-government-mark-carney-messages
10:45-11:00 - Brandon Weichert, author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower, @gordongchang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/moon-vs-mars-trumps-nasa-pick-faces-tough-questions-agencys-future-2025-04-09/
THIRD HOUR 11:00-11:15 - 1/2: Japan: Dealing. Grant Newsham, "When China Attacks."
11:15-11:30 - 2/2: Japan: Dealing. Grant Newsham, "When China Attacks."
11:30-11:45 - PRC: Submarine Cables, Jack Burnham, FCC.
11:45-12:00 - Russia: Trump Tariff Talk Crushes Russian Oil. Michael Bernstam, Hoover
FOURTH HOUR 12-12:15 - France: Sound Barrier. Simon Constable, Occitanie.
12:15-12:30 - Atoms for Peace; Quiz, Simon Constable, Occitanie.
12:30-12:45 - VAST: Commercial Space Stations. Bob Zimmerman, behindtheblack.com
12:45-1:00 AM - Mars: Curiosity Abides. Bob Zimmerman, behindtheblack.com
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. This show begins tonight in Ukraine, speaking with Colonel Jeff McCausland. |
| 0:08.4 | The demands, negotiable demands, not very negotiable demands by the Kremlin. |
| 0:15.0 | Number one, Zelensky and his regime must go. Number two, no change of the annexation. |
| 0:24.3 | Four provinces, Kersen, Zaporizia, Donetsk, Luhansk, plus Crimea. |
| 0:31.2 | Number three, disarmament, never joined NATO. |
| 0:35.6 | Jeff adds a few more, but we're looking at a negotiation that is repeated |
| 0:40.4 | again and again and again. Reminding of Iron Pants-Mollettov, the negotiator for Joseph Stalin once |
| 0:47.1 | upon a time. He said the same thing every time. War out the Roosevelt administration. |
| 0:53.9 | Iron Pants-Mulletov, He could sit there and repeat, repeat, |
| 0:57.0 | repeat. No problem. There's an anecdote about one time one of the counselors that might have been |
| 1:04.7 | Hull, might have been Atchison, caught him in a human moment. I don't know, something about saying goodbye at the end of the war. |
| 1:13.9 | Otherwise, iron pants. |
| 1:16.7 | Iron face, iron pants, iron seat, repeat, repeat, repeat. |
| 1:20.9 | Looks like the style from the Kremlin, we'll see. |
| 1:24.0 | We also talk about NATO and the promise of NATO with and without the U.S. in the future. |
| 1:31.5 | Charlie Pellegrino joins. This time of year, Charlie and I always turn to the Titanic story, |
| 1:36.7 | which he's written so carefully over the years. |
| 1:39.6 | The California incident, Farewell Titanic. |
| 1:42.6 | He dove to the Titanic with James Cameron many years ago, |
| 1:46.8 | and it's vivid in his mind. I think maybe there were two dives. In any event, |
| 1:52.9 | tonight we tell the story of the Carpathia, the ship that came to the rescue of the passengers |
| 1:58.2 | who were still floating in the water, drifting in the water in the lifeboats, |
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