This is John Bachelor.

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

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

The Marine Corps of the Army, the Navy.

However, 80 years later, Quadulen, the Marshall Islands

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

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

their part of the bargain, the Compact of Free Associated States where the U.S. does the security, and gets access

to these islands.

These are the stepping stones right across the Pacific.

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

with understanding of what they gained at the very bad casualties of Tarawa. But 80 years

later, it is not clear that the U.S. Congress and the Biden administration understands the

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

check writing.

Here's Cleopascal, Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, just back from India attending the 80th

memorial in Washington, D.C. at the Navy Memorial. Speaking of right now,

2024. This is the front line between Asia and the Americas and during World War II Japan, the Imperial Japan has mentioned had this Japanese mandate which took them all the way out to the

marshals and from you know projecting power all from across the Pacific all the way

to within as we know striking distance of Hawaii and the US took these islands

back one by one by one and have maintained very deep relationships with them through these compacts of free association

with the country with this zone which is now the countries of Palau, Federalist States of Micronesia, and of course the Marshall Islands. And Quadoline is still home to an extremely

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