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#StateThinking: Robert O'Brien and the renovation of the Strategic Forces. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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#StateThinking: Robert O'Brien and the renovation of the Strategic Forces. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/science/nuclear-testing-trump.html

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0:00.0

Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

0:10.0

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

0:15.0

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

0:19.0

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

0:23.0

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

0:26.0

Piando Ferries, there is another way. I'm John Bachelor with my good colleague Mary Kistel, Executive Vice President Stevenson

0:39.5

Incorporated, former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State,

0:42.6

woman who's traveled in France and Europe repeatedly,

0:47.0

also a member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal

0:49.8

once upon a time, much in Asia.

0:51.8

Around the world, but we come now to France which is the

0:54.3

center of the world if it's the 17th century and a strange result I read for

1:00.0

weeks marry that the national rally led by that sinister figure marine

1:06.0

lapen was going to storm the Elize a palace you know another revolution a thermador was about to happen called by the

1:17.9

president Emmanuel Macron a vote and we must stop Marine Le Pen.

1:22.6

Okay, they pulled a switcheru.

1:24.7

We don't have Marine Le Pen, we have a man named Melachon

1:28.8

who is described to me by the English papers

1:32.2

as the French Jeremy Corbin. That is not a good comparison.

1:36.3

So what has happened to France? Is this on purpose? Have they gone from scaring themselves

1:42.4

with the right to scaring themselves with the left?

1:46.5

Well, I think what we found is that McCrone and his allies hated the right more than they hated the far left and so they essentially made

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