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TONIGHT: The show begins with Peter Frankopan in a sweeping history of cities and empires adapting to or falling to unexpected natural events such as volcanos, El Nino, floods, storms, and especially drought. Then a conversattion with Robert Zubrin re t

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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TONIGHT: The show begins with Peter Frankopan in a sweeping history of cities and empires adapting to or falling to unexpected natural events such as volcanos, El Nino, floods, storms, and especially drought. Then a conversattion with Robert Zubrin re the unexplored value nuclear energy to augment the wind and solar renewables -- along with the inexhaustible natural gas. And a conversation with David Davenport re the changing understandings of equality of opportunity in America. Much attention also to Richard Epstein's 2021 analysis of the filibuster in American political history. And a rich observation by Professor Dan Flores of the wildlife of North America that the European settlers damaged with excessive gunfire and habitat destruction.

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0:30.3

This is John Batcheer. On Thanksgiving, I turned to Ukraine.

0:36.0

Seri Plochi was with me earlier this year.

0:39.0

His new book, The Russo-Ukraineian War,

0:42.0

tells the story of Ukraine and Russia's relationship

0:44.8

for hundreds of years but are particularly the last century leading to this tortured

0:51.0

conflict we have in Eurasia, along with the Gaza War

0:56.0

overwhelming everyone.

0:58.0

In any event, the facts on it

1:00.0

support Ukraine as an independent country.

1:03.1

Always has been, always will be.

1:05.5

It was incorporated into the Russian Empire reluctantly.

1:09.3

Not at all in shape now. This has to do with the Battle of empires the Romanov the Ho and

1:16.4

southern the Habsburg the British Empire as well and how they dealt with each other 17th 18th 19th century.

1:26.7

Seri Ploke is professor of history at Harvard University, Ukrainian history. I've spoken with him several times over the years

1:35.1

very fortunately. We talked about Yalta many years ago. We addressed the Cuban

1:40.7

missile crisis a few years back and now the Russo-Ukraineian War.

1:46.4

I recommend it as background to what promises to be a very difficult and long drawn out conflict, making Europe extremely

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