GOOD EVENING. The show begins in the State Department, asking what sort of foreign policy for the second term of either candidate. To China, to Venezuela, to the USA. To Israel, to Iran, to Central Asia, to Lebanon. To Ottawa, to DC, to Boca Chica, to ISS
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 28 June 2024
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To China, to Venezuela, to the USA. To Israel, to Iran, to Central Asia, to Lebanon. To Ottawa, to DC, to Boca Chica, to ISS, to Paris and London for the vote, to Eurasia and Gazprom.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. The show begins tonight with questions about foreign policy for the second term of either presidential candidate. |
| 0:09.0 | It will be the second term, both will be lamed up no matter who wins. |
| 0:13.0 | What do you do? |
| 0:14.0 | Continuing your policies from the first term? |
| 0:17.0 | I spoke with Cliff May, the president and founder of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy. We talked on Afghanistan, we looked |
| 0:25.8 | at Ukraine and the Middle East, certainly the confrontation with Moscow and Beijing. |
| 0:32.6 | There are troubles in both administrations and we just reviewed, no choice. |
| 0:38.9 | And then I moved on to talking about the word dumping. The commercial real estate market, the headline in the |
| 0:45.8 | New York Times was banks were dumping commercial real estate quietly, selling them at a deep discount because offices are no longer filled. |
| 0:56.7 | Buildings are no longer filled in our major cities. |
| 0:59.2 | Moving on to Gaza, I spoke with Nitsan Nureal, a Brigadier General in the retired of the |
| 1:06.4 | deputy commander of the Israeli Staff Command. We talked about the winding down of |
| 1:11.0 | operations in Gaza and the revving up of operations in the north, war of the |
| 1:16.7 | north, the Hezbollah, and what is to be done. |
| 1:20.2 | Also spoke to Gabriel and Iran who was in the State Department for Secretary Pompeo |
| 1:25.4 | specializing in Iran. We talked about the election so we went to Tehran, the six |
| 1:30.7 | choices, all hardlinersliners one reformer the choice will be up to the |
| 1:36.8 | Supreme Leader I've been told again and again this is not an election this is |
| 1:40.3 | selection Brenda Schaefer arrived to talk about Central Asia, |
| 1:44.4 | squeeze between China and Moscow and what is to be done for the countries that |
| 1:50.0 | want to reach outside. Jonathan Kricus, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, |
| 1:57.4 | expressed a good thought, let us work so that the Hezbollah war doesn't start because that is much more violent than anything |
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