TONIGHT: The show begins in the Red Sea now empty of large shipping traffic because of the Houthi and Somalian threats. To Kabul and Caracas, to DC and Jerusalem. To Doha and Ankara. To Kyiv and Brussels, to the Indian Ocean Basin and the South China Se
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:21.2 | show begins in the Red Sea. The attacks on commercial shipping have |
| 0:26.3 | ended much of the heavy containers and the BP scale oil ships, the tankers, the U.S. Navy, the French Navy, the British Navy, not adequate |
| 0:37.0 | to defend against the Huthies firing cruise missiles and drones to Harris the shipping. This turns on a global story. I just |
| 0:47.8 | touch it here that the Huthies are said to be risktakers, also ideologically driven. |
| 0:55.0 | Yes, they're somehow allied with Iran, |
| 0:58.6 | but they don't work for Iran the way Hamas does or Hezbollah. At At the same time there's a report that Somali |
| 1:05.4 | pirates raiders have boarded a ship taken possession of it. Working with the |
| 1:11.6 | huthies is the report how Somalia on one side of the |
| 1:16.5 | Red Sea Yemen on the other however they command the access and the access and the exit from the Suez Canal, dominant in the situation |
| 1:30.6 | now of world finance. The shipping companies rates are |
| 1:36.3 | skyrocketing and their stocks are skyrocketing. |
| 1:39.1 | The US Navy is responding question mark the French Navy. There was a flotilla of Somalia |
| 1:46.4 | during the pirate days, but now. Then on to Afghanistan and the question of 500,000 Afghans living in Pakistan told to get out, return to Afghanistan, |
| 2:00.2 | Afghanistan or wherever. They have not moved yet. It's going very slowly. It's a threat. |
| 2:07.0 | However, the Afghan government, the Taliban is in no way in a position to care for 500,000 hungry people in winter. Few nations could. |
| 2:18.0 | And right now there is a conflict that is difficult to see because there's no good reporting coming out of |
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