GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Ukraine, waiting for a plan to reverse the EU and Nato plans to end the war on Moscow's terms...
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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1865 Crimeaan War
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
- 9:00-9:15: UKRAINE: NEGOTIATING THE BATTLEFIELD Guest: Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (Retired) (@mccauslj @CBSNews @DickinsonCol)
- 9:15-9:30: UKRAINE: NATO? Guest: Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (Retired) (@mccauslj @CBSNews @DickinsonCol)
- 9:30-9:45: FRANCE: DAFFODILS FULL BLOOM. STARMER FULL FLOP Guest: Simon Constable, WSJ
- 9:45-10:00: MOVIES: THE HARDEST QUIZ Guest: Simon Constable, WSJ
- 10:00-10:15: NEWWORLDREPORT: DRONES OVER MEXICO Guest: Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute (@RevAnEllis)
- 10:15-10:30: NEWWORLDREPORT: PANAMA DEPORTS Guest: Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis
- 10:30-10:45: NEWWORLDREPORT: BRAZIL CONDEMNS BOLSONARO Guest: Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis
- 10:45-11:00: NEWWORLDREPORT: MILEI STUMBLES Guest: Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis
- 11:00-11:15: BALKANS: STUDENT PROTESTS GROW Guest: Antonia Colibasanu
- 11:15-11:30: ROMANIA: FRONT LINE STATE Guest: [Guest name not provided]
- 11:30-11:45: PRC: XI ROMANCES WEALTH AND TECH Guest: Fraser Howie (@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill)
- 11:45-12:00: TAIWAN: POLITICAL WARFARE Guest: Kerry Gershaneck (@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill)
- 12:00-12:15: EU: SANCTION DEEPEN Guest: Michael Bernstam, Hoover
- 12:15-12:30: RUSSIA: ZERO SUM WARFIGHTING Guest: Rebekah Koffler, Author, "Putin's Playbook"
- 12:30-12:45: BLUE ORIGIN: SIGNS OF LIFE Guest: Bob Zimmerman (BehindTheBlack.com)
- 12:45-1:00 AM: BLUE GHOST: MARCH 2 LANDING Guest: [Guest name not provided]
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| 0:55.6 | Good evening. The show begins tonight in Ukraine, negotiating the battlefield with Colonel Jeff McCausen. The battlefield will be on the table wherever the discussions begin. |
| 1:00.3 | In Europe, in the Middle East, in the Far East, |
| 1:05.0 | between the two working groups to be named by Secretary of State Rubio and Foreign Minister Lavrov. |
| 1:07.7 | The discussion at hand will be ending the war, |
| 1:10.1 | but there are other matters we learn from the Riyadh beating, such as denuking, such as bringing Russia back into the community of nations, lifting sanctions, lots of issues. |
| 1:22.2 | They want this done with dispatch, say both sides. |
| 1:26.4 | We shall see. |
| 1:27.1 | Also, Jeff and I discuss NATO. What about NATO after |
| 1:31.3 | the war? What status? Where is the army? Who will run it? There is a suggestion that the UK and France |
| 1:40.1 | will field an army, backed up with air power from the U.S. and others, and that will guarantee safety |
| 1:47.7 | in what's left of Ukraine after the partition. The presumption is there will be a partition. |
| 1:55.2 | Spoke to France, Simon Constable, the daffodils are in full bloom. The south of France is well ahead of us here in New England, well ahead of Moscow. |
| 2:04.5 | I talked to Moscow yesterday. |
| 2:07.3 | Frid. |
| 2:08.4 | Frid here, we get Siberian air. |
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