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TONIGHT: The show begins in Kyiv following the firing of the General-in-Chief. To NATO and the threat teased by Putin. ToLA and NYC with the crash of the commercial real estate market. To college to ask how to reform a satified monoculture? To NYC where

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

News, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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TONIGHT: The show begins in Kyiv following the firing of the General-in-Chief. To NATO and the threat teased by Putin. ToLA and NYC with the crash of the commercial real estate market. To college to ask how to reform a satisfied monoculture? To NYC where the migrants struggle in the cold. To Congress and the debt. To Moscow planning a trip to Pyongyang; to the 1920 Republican Convention in Chicago. To the troubles in Guyana and the troubles in Brasilia, Panama City, Buenos Aires and more.

1918 Princeton graduation with a keynote by the British Ambassado, Earl Readingr

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0:00.0

This may sound like someone on the bus just mindlessly messaging, but it's so much more.

0:06.0

It's the sound of Greg typing and then deleting and then retyping his true feelings for Keira,

0:12.0

after their first kiss outside the dog and duck.

0:15.0

A reply already Greg. You little charmer.

0:19.0

Greg's living his best phone life on the UK's fastest 5G network. Three, life needs a

0:24.9

needs a big network.

0:25.9

Ucla speed test intelligence data H1 2023c3.

0:28.6

C3.C3.C.3.C. 3.C. 3.C.

0:29.1

The show begins to

0:32.8

not in Keith where Anatole Leaven makes it very clear

0:36.4

that the manpower shortage is complete and cannot be reversed.

0:42.8

There will be no spring offensive of note in 24, none in 25.

0:48.0

There are just not enough people left to draft into the front lines and waiting for F-16s or long-range missiles is not going to answer

0:58.7

that Russia overwhelms in manpower and artillery and ammunition and what the head is a

1:08.8

negotiation. Whose to negotiate is an open question. Then the commercial real estate market, for some years

1:15.9

it's been trembling because of work from home, because of the pandemic, because large cities became

1:21.8

unattractive to people living and working at home.

1:26.2

Now the commercial real estate is clearly being discounted, 45 to 50 percent in the big cities of Los Angeles and New York.

1:36.4

More than that, says my informant Chris Regal, 60 percent is mentioned in other cities.

1:43.0

And then the illiberal universities that offer liberal education.

1:48.0

And what is to be done?

1:49.0

Peter Berkowitz has some very good ideas.

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