GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Ukraine, where a negotiation is credible after the US Election, as told by Anatol Lieven of Quincy Institute. More tonight.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
9-915 #UKRAINE: Negotiations within reach after the Election. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/georgian-elections/
915-930 #GEORGIA: Perilous Election October 26. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/georgian-elections/
930-945 #SCALAREPORT: Even McDonald's slows down. Chris Riegel CEO, Scala.com @Stratacache
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/mcdonalds-sales-fall-globally-for-first-time-in-more-than-three-years/ar-BB1qQbb2
945-1000 #VENEZUELA: Opposition in hiding & what is to be done? Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuelans-send-a-message-to-maduro-presidential-election-latin-america-7f698c08?st=cp30tdrdho89lq6&reflink=article_gmail_share
SECOND HOUR
10-1015 #ISRAEL More threats from Beirut and Tehran. Yaakov Lappin - Military and strategic affairs analyst Yaakov Lappin, Host of the Lappin Assessment on Patreon, Analyst at JNS and the Miryam Institute.
https://www.jns.org/irans-steadily-eroding-ring-of-fire/
1015-1030 #TURKEY: Erdogan and the Muslim Brothers. Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak is the Turkey expert at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS) and the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (MDC) at Tel Aviv University.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/foreign-minister-urges-nato-to-expel-turkey-over-threats-to-invade-israel/
1030-1045 #Hezbollah: Uncertain for war. David Daoud is a senior fellow at FDD focused on Lebanon and Hezbollah. He previously worked as a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council, director of Israel, Lebanon, and Syria research at United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), and a research analyst at FDD
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/30/war-of-attrition-us-can-deter-hezbollah-by-showing/
1045-1100 #Venezuela: On the edge of worse. Joseph Humire is an expert on foreign policy, national security, and asymmetric warfare. He is the executive director of the Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS).
https://www.yahoo.com/news/observers-invited-venezuela-condemn-election-125258914.html
THIRD HOUR
1100-1115 #CANADA: Netanyahu and the Trudeau Government reluctance. Conrad Black, National Post
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/netanyahu-vaporizes-the-nonsense-surrounding-israels-war-with-hamas
1115-1130 #CANADA: Responding to the China and Russia provocation. Conrad Black, National Post
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/netanyahu-vaporizes-the-nonsense-surrounding-israels-war-with-hamas
1130-1145 1/2: #HOTELMARS: Too few and then too many Dwarf Galaxies. Marcel Pawlowski, Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP). David Livingston, SpaceShow.com
1145-1200 2/2: #HOTELMARS: Too few and then too many Dwarf Galaxies. Marcel Pawlowski, Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP). David Livingston, SpaceShow.com
FOURTH HOUR
12-1215 @MrMarket: JD Vance tax code to encourage the childless. Veronique DeRugy, Mercatus Center.
https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/08/24/jd-vance-and-the-bipartisan-itch-to-tax-behavior
1215-1230 #RUSSIA: Secondary sanctions and the Russia-refusing banks of Asia. Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution
https://www.newsweek.com/china-russia-ruble-yuan-banks-return-decline-transactions-1931494
1230-1245 #PRC: Manufacturing is not the rescue plan it used to be. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
1245-100 am #BANGLADESH Troubles in the streets for the University educated jobless. Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, AEI.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bagladeshs-shaky-political-future-islamists-protest-crackdown-prime-minister-hasina-2c29fafb
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. The show begins to tonight in Ukraine, a conversation with that and |
| 0:04.2 | told Leaven of the Quincy Institute about the possibility of negotiations |
| 0:09.8 | without accusations of victory or defeat. |
| 0:17.0 | What it would look like is that Russia keeps the territory it's occupying and annexes it. |
| 0:24.8 | Annexation is not recognized, therefore it's not legally Russia, it's not sovereign Russia. |
| 0:31.2 | Ukraine then enters into negotiation knowing that that is Ukrainian territory that |
| 0:38.1 | will in the courts or in time return into the possession of Ukraine but it's not Russia. |
| 0:50.0 | Anatole tells me there are hawkish Russians in Moscow officials who would accept this. |
| 0:57.0 | We also talk of Georgia. |
| 1:00.0 | There's an election October 26 in Georgia, South Caucasus. |
| 1:04.4 | The winner is going to accuse the other side of cheating. |
| 1:09.6 | The loser is going to accuse the other side of illegitimacy. |
| 1:14.0 | We're at the edge of a civil strife in Georgia. |
| 1:18.0 | That was the original interruption in the breakup of the Soviet Empire when there was a revolution in Georgia, |
| 1:26.6 | who will recall in 2008, Joe Biden emerged as Mr. Foreign Policy. |
| 1:32.3 | He was chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. |
| 1:36.3 | And Barack Obama, Senator Barack Obama, picked him to be Vice President, beginning the |
| 1:41.5 | saga that we're now still in. The Biden family |
| 1:45.3 | that's all this together not the Obama or Trump or Bush, the Biden family. |
| 1:58.6 | And then on to discussing retail slowdown and franchise slowdown. Even McDonald's slowing down. I talked to Chris Regal about it. People are careful about their money. |
| 2:04.0 | Mary Anastasia Grady reports on Venezuela. There's news in these last hours. |
| 2:08.0 | Secretary Blinken has said the vote was illegitimate. |
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