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PREVIEW: Excerpt from a conversation with FDD Cleo Paskal, just returned from India to attend the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands between the US and Imperial Japan: discussing the battle today between the US and the PRC

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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PREVIEW: Excerpt from a conversation with FDD Cleo Paskal, just returned from India to attend the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands between the US and Imperial Japan: discussing the battle today between the US and the PRC over access to the Marshalls that is critical for Oceania defense. More of this tonight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kwajalein

December 1943 Enterprise

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Small pizzas now 8 quid, medium now 10 quid, and large now 12 quid.

0:12.0

Yet we're making cuts too.

0:14.0

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0:18.0

Tous and see, see Domino's dot code.

0:20.0

UK. This is John Bachelor.

0:22.0

Conversation with Cleopascal just returned from India about the 80th anniversary, remembering

0:28.1

the Battle of Quadulon, January 31st, 1944, February 3rd, 1944.

0:35.9

The Marine Corps of the Army, the Navy.

0:38.4

However, 80 years later,

0:40.1

quadolin, the Marshall Islands,

0:42.4

are at the center of a battle as well, but this battle is taking

0:45.9

place between Beijing and Washington, and it has to do with the cash needed in the Marshall Islands and its neighbors, especially Palau.

0:57.7

To maintain their part of the bargain, the Compact of Free Associated States where the US does the security and gets

1:05.3

access to these islands.

1:07.7

These are the stepping stones right across the Pacific.

1:10.7

80 years ago, the Marines, the Army, the Navy, assaulted the beaches at Quadulid, with losses,

1:20.0

with understanding of what they gained at the very bad casualties of Tarawa.

1:25.7

But 80 years later, it is not clear that the U.S. Congress and the Biden administration

1:30.2

understands the risk of letting the marshals and its neighbors drift towards the Chinese

1:37.0

check writing.

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