The first hour covers the Battle of Gettysburg, with commentary from Colonel Jeff McCausland (retired) on the first day of the battle. It also discusses Russia's cheap fertilizer and its impact on the European bread basket, as well as the political situat
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 4 July 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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The second hour focuses on China, with discussions on Taiwan provocations, China's lack of a "Plan B" for its economic challenges, China's growing influence in Cuba, and the recent Third Plenum meeting of the Chinese Communist Party.
The third hour includes a segment on Jubal Early's 1864 invasion of Washington D.C., an analysis of the "Trump Trade" and its impact on the markets, updates on the opening of new spaceports around the world, and the ongoing increase in sunspot activity.
The fourth hour covers the political developments in Latin America, including Bolivia's "self-coup," the primary elections in Uruguay, the attempted assassination of Cristina Kirchner in Argentina, and the strengthening of China-Peru relations.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. The show begins tonight in Gettysburg, July 1st, 1863. The Gathering Storm, Lee's |
| 0:20.8 | Army coming without cavalry scouting from the west and the north. |
| 0:27.0 | George Meade, who took over just two days before, the Army of the Potomac coming from the south and the east meeting engagement. |
| 0:38.0 | Narrated by Colonel Jeff McCausen, U.S. Army retired, CBS News, my colleague, |
| 0:45.0 | is the author of the book Battle Tested |
| 0:47.0 | about Leadership Lessons from Gettysburg. |
| 0:50.0 | The battle built in the course of the first day from a cavalry unit with Spencer repeating |
| 0:58.4 | rifles that peppered the advancing heavy infantry of Hees Brigade, Hees Pepper the |
| 1:03.0 | he's brigade, he's division, towards Gettysburg, and |
| 1:08.0 | towards Gettysburg and what is called seminary ridge. |
| 1:20.0 | The north was attacked by two different divisions coming on heavily. Whole Corps were turning up on the battlefield in the course of the day. |
| 1:25.0 | As I understand it the Union could only fall back towards the end of the day Lee gave a lesson, gave an order that was interpreted by the general Yule who received |
| 1:38.1 | it as you can attack or not depending upon your conditions, you will chose not to attack. |
| 1:46.4 | The speculation is that he would have overrun the union position. |
| 1:51.8 | That would have been the end of the Battle of Gettysburg and the end of a few |
| 1:55.9 | corps of the Union Army of the Potomac. And there were just been very few tattered regiments between Lee and Washington DC or Philadelphia |
| 2:08.0 | depending on which way he turned. It didn't happen that way. You'll chose not to |
| 2:12.1 | attack believing that way. You'll chose not to attack, believing there would be a better start in the |
| 2:16.7 | morning. |
| 2:17.7 | Lee believed they would win on the second day. |
| 2:19.9 | So Jeffrey takes us up to the end of the first day. Then I turned to Michael |
| 2:26.0 | Bernstom at the Hoover Institution to discover that Russia cutting off natural gas |
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