TONIGHT;: The show begins in Warsaw, with two prominent politicians denouncing Ukraine as a "drowning man" that no longer will deserve the new weapons, best kept for Polish forces. Then to the North Sea for an update on the unsolved Nordstream bombing of one year agio. From Moscow and the arms build out to West Africa and the retreat of the French military. Much attention to the history and now doctrine of NATO's and Russia's tactical nukes. Later with talk of the $33 Trillion debt, and of an unknown planet, perhaps Earth size, disturbing the Kuiper Belt.

1945 Hiroshima

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR


FIRST HOUR

9-915
#Ukraine: Poland disdains Ukraine as a "drowning man." & What is to be done? Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/poland-ukraine-dispute/


915-930
#Ukraine: Poland disdains Ukraine as a "drowning man." & What is to be done? Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/nord-stream-pipeline-one-year/

930-945
#ScalaReport: Asia, Europe, North America slowdown and disruptions. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #Stratacache.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/chinas-economic-slowdown-was-inevitable

945-1000
#Canada: Justin Trudeau going through a bad patch and speaking peculiarly about grocery chains windfall profiteering. Conrad Black, National Post

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-trudeaus-attack-on-grocers-is-absurd

SECOND HOUR

10-1015
1/2: #Russia: The expanding Defense Industry needs workers, technicians, resources, R&D and new inventions. Fast. Ekaterina Zolotova, Geopolitical Futures.com @GPFutures

1015-1030
2/2: #Russia: The expanding Defense Industry needs workers, technicians, resources, R&D and new inventions. Fast. Ekaterina Zolotova, Geopolitical Futures.com @GPFutures
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/russias-defense-industry-at-a-crossroads/
1030-1045
1/2: #France: #Africa: Paris Retreats from FrançAfrique as Moscow advances on FrançAfrique. Ronan Wordsworth, Geopolitical Futures.com @GPFutures
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/the-demise-of-francafrique/

1045-1100
2/2: #France: #Africa: Paris Retreats from FrançAfrique as Moscow advances on FrançAfrique. Ronan Wordsworth, Geopolitical Futures.com @GPFutures
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/the-demise-of-francafrique/

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115
1/4: Tactical Nuclear Weapons and NATO by Tom Nichols (Author), Douglas Stuart, Jeff McCausland (Author),

https://www.amazon.com/Tactical-Nuclear-Weapons-NATO-Nichols/dp/1479181951

The role and future of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe are subjects that sometimes surprise even experts in international security, primarily because it is so often disconcerting to remember that these weapons still exist. Many years ago, an American journalist wryly noted that the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was “a subject that drives the dagger of boredom deep, deep into the heart”— a dismissive quip which would have remained true right up until the moment World War III broke out. The same goes for tactical nuclear weapons: compared to the momentous issues that the East and West have tackled since the end of the Cold War, the scattering of hundreds (or in the Russian case, thousands) of battlefield weapons throughout Europe seems to be almost an afterthought, a detail left behind that should be easy to tidy up. Such complacency is unwise. Tactical nuclear weapons (or NSNWs, “non-strategic nuclear weapons”) still exist because NATO and Russia have not fully resolved their fears about how a nuclear war might arise, or how it might be fought. They represent, as Russian analyst Nikolai Sokov once wrote, “the longest deadlock” in the history of arms control. Washington and Moscow, despite the challenges to the “reset” of their relations, point to reductions in strategic arms as a great achievement, but strategic agreements also reveal the deep ambiguity toward nuclear weapons as felt by the former superpower rivals. The numbers in the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) are lower than at any point in history, but they are based on leaving each side a reliable ability to destroy up to 300 urban targets each. Inflicting this incredible amount of destruction is, on its face, a step no sane national leader would take. But it is here that tactical weapons were meant to play their dangerous role, for they would be the arms that provided the indispensable bridge from peace to nuclear war. Thus, the structures of Cold War nuclear doctrines on both sides remain in place, only on a smaller scale.

1115-1130
2/4: Tactical Nuclear Weapons and NATO by Tom Nichols (Author), Douglas Stuart, Jeff McCausland (Author),

1130-1145
3/4: Tactical Nuclear Weapons and NATO by Tom Nichols (Author), Douglas Stuart, Jeff McCausland (Author),

1145-1200
4/4: Tactical Nuclear Weapons and NATO by Tom Nichols (Author), Douglas Stuart, Jeff McCausland (Author),




FOURTH HOUR

12-1215
#MrMARKET: $33 Trillion Debt and no memory of the 1950s and 60s growth with surplus.. Veronique de Rugy
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/can-we-really-grow-out-of-debt/

1215-1230
#Russia: The Diesel Fuel Mistake. Michael Bernstam, @HooverInst

https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/kremlins-latest-battle-is-with-russias-oil-companies-63270c23?mod=hp_lead_pos4

1230-1245
1/2: #HotelMars: The unknown planet disrupting the distant Kuiper Belt. Patryk Sofia Lykawka, Osaka University. David Livingston, SpaceSHow.com
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aceaf0

1245-100 am
2/2: #HotelMars: The unknown planet disrupting the distant Kuiper Belt. Patryk Sofia Lykawka, Osaka University. David Livingston, SpaceSHow.com
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aceaf0