GOOD EVENING: The show begins on Normandy, recalling that the Soviet Army was half the success for launching Operation Bagration to tie down and destroy German divisions that could have been moved to the West. To Kyiv, Moscow, Beijing, Ulan Bator. To
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🗓️ 7 June 2024
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GOOD EVENING: The show begins on Normandy, recalling that the Soviet Army was half the success for launching Operation Bagration to tie down and destroy German divisions that could have been moved to the West.
To Kyiv, Moscow, Beijing, Ulan Bator.
To Jerusalem, Gaza, Westchester, Tehran.
To Mexico City, Washington City, South China Sea
To Speculoos 3b around the red dwarf Speculoos.
May 1944 Royal Ulster Rifles and Montgomery
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening this is John Batcher. The show begins on D day June 6th 1944. |
| 0:07.0 | The massing of the allies off the coast of France charging into the Vermach's preparations. In the coming weeks the |
| 0:17.4 | Vermach would reinforce with Panzer armored Paris has reached in late August. However, it is important to note that in this 80th anniversary, |
| 0:39.0 | the last, perhaps the last that veterans will attend, it is 80 years now, plus whatever their ages were. |
| 0:45.1 | They're in their 90s, close to 100. In this last effort to have the veterans show up, there were veterans who were not present, and that's the |
| 0:55.2 | Soviet Army. In 1944, Operation Bogratian was launched a few weeks after D-Day. That destroyed Army Group's |
| 1:05.6 | center of the Hitlerite Army. It also maintained the German Army as status quo in Normandy, not reinforced by the army in the east. |
| 1:18.4 | That was the point. |
| 1:20.3 | Russia advanced as Soviet Union advanced as the U.S. France, Canada, Britain advanced against Paris. |
| 1:30.0 | Without attendance today was only half the story of how the war was successfully brought |
| 1:37.2 | to a conclusion in the spring of 45. |
| 1:41.7 | From there we moved to Ukraine, which is part of the irony of these events. |
| 1:48.0 | Putin again mentions his strategic forces, aka Nukes, talking about missiles fired by NATO into Russia, and Russia |
| 1:58.0 | responding with missiles, escalation. |
| 2:01.6 | Conversation with Michael Bernstam about a hard bargain between Russia, which has lots |
| 2:06.9 | of natural gas to sell, and China ready to buy natural gas, but it requires building a new pipeline, Power Siberia 2. From the north of Russia where the |
| 2:19.3 | gas fields are, the lines already run through Russia to the west. But what they want to do is build |
| 2:27.6 | a line that runs east through Mongolia into China. Russia wants China to pay for it. China says you pay for it and then offers a very |
| 2:36.4 | very low price that is willing to pay for the natural gas. In other words some hard |
| 2:40.9 | bargaining ahead between China and Russia. |
| 2:44.0 | Then off to the South China Sea where coastcards are deployed and dueling |
| 2:50.0 | over the sho, sometimes called the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines, |
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