PREVIEW: From a longer conversation with Josh Rogin, Washington Post, about Congress arming Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, we look at the shrunken industrial base for war-fighting.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2023
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Oh great! The Guardian is now delivering newspapers all over the UK to places like Manchester, Edinburgh and many more. |
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| 0:20.8 | Com slash autumn delivery. |
| 0:22.0 | offer ends December 3rd, 2023. Open to UK and N.I. Guardian. This is John Batcher. Spoke with Josh Roggan, the Global Opinions Columnist at the Washington Post, |
| 0:36.0 | about the concern over the funding of two wars from the U.S. Congress that is in disarray. |
| 0:42.0 | We then turn to questions about the |
| 0:44.9 | industrial base. The arsenal of democracy has depleted in scrambling. Josh's answer is |
| 0:51.3 | blunt. Yes, we're late, but now here's Josh. Right, we were late to the game and now a year and and a half into the Ukraine |
| 1:00.2 | where it's becoming clear that this is not going to stop anytime soon. |
| 1:03.4 | In fact, things are going to get worse before they get better. |
| 1:06.1 | So right now the Defense Industrial Base is rushing to adjust. |
| 1:11.3 | It's a little bit late and a little bit short, but they're doing it and it's |
| 1:16.9 | going to have to continue because it looks like the wars in Israel and Ukraine are going |
| 1:20.6 | to go on for quite a while. |
| 1:21.6 | Josh Rogan writes global opinions for the Washington Post. |
| 1:25.2 | Oh great! |
| 1:27.2 | The Guardian is now delivering newspapers all over the UK to places like Manchester, Edinburgh |
| 1:31.9 | and many more. |
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