GREETINGS: The show begins with the declaration of "war" by the Kremlin. Then to Kyiv, to Beijing, to Seoul, to Stalin in 1942, to Napoleon in 1807, to Mao in 1966 -- all instances when ideology failed. To China sinking without a plan. To Central Africa

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🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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GREETINGS: The show begins with the declaration of "war" by the Kremlin. Then to Kyiv, to Beijing, to Seoul, to Stalin in 1942, to Napoleon in 1807, to Mao in 1966 -- all instances when ideology failed. To China sinking without a plan. To Central Africa and the Russian ambition of building a railroad from Tripoli to the Central Africa Republic. To the UK re income inequality and bad outcomes for nations. To California and the cougar attack in El Dorado County. To Occitanie France and Spring splendor. To Boca Chica overun with tourists. And to the surface of the moon with Odie, the IM probe lander that broke a leg on landing and tipped over.

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0:00.0	Greetings. The show begins in Moscow where the word war has been used by
0:07.1	Dimitri Pescov, the spokesperson for the Kremlin. War between Moscow and Kief.
0:12.4	I speak with current Jeff McCausen, what comes next?
0:16.0	A broad front advance is what the economist says is at hand as Russia builds up its logistics to launch into the spring weather.
0:27.0	And then to discuss the Rafa final assault by the IDF.
0:35.0	Jeff McCausen and I talk about how the U.S. has said don't do it.
0:39.0	The U.N. said don't do it.
0:41.0	The choice is destroy the four battalions that are left intact in Raffa or
0:47.4	back away and let Hamas live another day. The choice is a rough one. The mission when the war began six months ago or
0:57.5	more was to destroy Hamas. It looks destroyed but it's now a guerrilla organization and a guerrilla organization
1:06.2	lasts for years in song and legend and defiance. We discussed China's business model, Charles Burton and Gordon Chang. It's simple. They use
1:20.0	hacking for theft and blackmail. No more, no fancy. China's a thief. Chinese Communist
1:27.8	party is a blackmailer. And then a conversation about the defense industrial base in South Korea, which is in
1:37.8	fine feather.
1:39.8	More of that is needed in Japan and the United States and Israel.
1:45.0	Marxist-Leninist ideology, I speak with Victor Davis-Hanson.
1:50.0	Marxist-Leninistiology failed in 1942.
1:54.0	The Russians were surrounded by the Germans, lost 5 million men because the commissars directed the divisions.
2:00.0	When they were elbowed aside and professional soldiers took over, the Russians eventually won.
2:06.0	Same story in Europe for Napoleon.
2:09.0	The reason he was so successful is the coalition was made up of aristocrats who have no talent whatsoever
2:16.7	other than to be aristocrats, ideological aristocrats.
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