Good evening: The show begins in Ukraine, expecting a Russian spring offensive.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 18 April 2025
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Good evening: The show begins in Ukraine, expecting a Russian spring offensive.
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CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor
FIRST HOUR 9-9:15 - Ukraine: Russian Spring Offensive. Anatol Lieven, Quincy
9:15-9:30 - NATO: Doubting the US. Anatol Lieven, Quincy
9:30-9:45 - PRC: NVDA to Beijing. #ScalaReport: Chris Riegel CEO, Scala.com @Stratacache
9:45-10:00 - NASA: Jared Isaacman, Administrator. Jeff Faust, SpaceNews.com
SECOND HOUR 10-10:15 - #NewWorldReport: Ecuador Votes. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @RevAnEllis #NewWorldReportEllis
10:15-10:30 - #NewWorldReport: Bukele in the White House. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @RevAnEllis #NewWorldReportEllis
10:30-10:45 - #NewWorldReport: Panama, Brazil, Argentina. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @RevAnEllis #NewWorldReportEllis
10:45-11:00 - #NewWorldReport: Mario Vargas Llosa. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @RevAnEllis #NewWorldReportEllis
THIRD HOUR 11:00-11:15 - 1865: The Confederate Secret Service. Patrick K. O'Donnell, author, "The Unvanquished."
11:15-11:30 - 1865: Mosby's Rangers. Patrick K. O'Donnell, author, "The Unvanquished."
11:30-11:45 - 1865: Booth and the Secret Service. Patrick K. O'Donnell, author, "The Unvanquished."
11:45-12:00 - 1865: The Trial. Patrick K. O'Donnell, author, "The Unvanquished."
FOURTH HOUR 12-12:15 - Reverse Kissinger No Go. Cliff May, FDD
12:15-12:30 - #Cosmos: Isolated Black Hole Discovered at 5,000 Light Years. Ken Croswell, Science News.
12:30-12:45 - MrMarket: Hall-Rabushka Tax Regimen. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center
12:45-1:00 AM - Manitoba Nickel Mining St 18: David Henderson, Hoover
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. The show begins tonight in Ukraine. |
| 0:05.0 | Anatole Levin reports the expectation of a Russian spring offensive as soon as the ground |
| 0:12.0 | hardness from the winter meltdown, the thawing. An offensive is not expected. And there it is. |
| 0:27.4 | We also speak about NATO and how NATO is prepared to doubt the U.S. to return. |
| 0:31.3 | And NATO without the U.S. is not the same. |
| 0:32.8 | It will have to have a new name. |
| 0:35.7 | No North Atlantic in it. |
| 0:47.3 | On to a conversation with Chris Regal about the NVIDIA chip that is now no longer permitted to be shipped to China, the H-100. |
| 0:53.1 | Designed for China under regulations issued by the Biden administration, no longer adequate. |
| 0:58.8 | And the CEO of NVIDIA, Jensen Wang, off to Beijing to consult. |
| 1:06.2 | We also spoke of the Europeans and how they are not participating in the AI chase. |
| 1:07.5 | Why not? |
| 1:10.6 | A decision. |
| 1:12.7 | Hardware. |
| 1:15.3 | Not the chip chase. |
| 1:15.8 | Okay. |
| 1:25.1 | Jeff Faust of Science Space News joins to talk about the testimony of Jared Isaacman nominated to be the administrator of NASA. |
| 1:28.9 | The revelations and the politics of the moment. |
| 1:31.5 | NASA is very large and is expecting a cutback in his budget. |
| 1:37.0 | However, it's still very large, |
| 1:39.1 | and what it does with the money that comes to it |
| 1:41.3 | is critical for the development of the Earth-Moon system |
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