Good evening. This is John Bachelor. To not in the show, I speak with my colleague Anatole

Leven, who is traveling in the South Caucasus. He's reached to Blesi, the capital of Georgia.

We discuss the European Union in NATO, and how it is probable in the near future, Washington,

Brussels, and NATO will go separate ways, not only with regard to Ukraine, but also with

regard to how to deal with Russia after this disruption of what had been a building

relationship of energy and development. I also speak with my colleague Chris Regal of

Scholar.com about the anecdotes of China's flagging economy. The Chinese miracle is over

with. The question is, can they, in some fashion, supply what they need to carry them through

what we would regard as a severe recession? Unemployment, inability to pay bills, debts

that crush municipalities and towns, people not being paid their salaries, all of that

is coming to China now. The Chinese Communist Party, led by Xi Jinping, does not now show

that it has answers. We'll look to the future for the Chinese people, but for the Chinese

Communist Party, it appears that the bargain they've made these many decades, we give

you prosperity, you give us obedience. It appears that bargain might be broken. Also, a

conversation about what is happening right now across the world, the very dark story

of anti-Semitism. As I speak with my colleague Malcolm Honeline and Sherry Dallinger from the

Kufa, the Christians United for Israel, anti-Semitism is everywhere now and a regular occurrence.

It is not rare. The puzzle is why, especially during a time of great comedy in the Middle

East, the Abraham Accords and genuine exchanges of value and trade and understanding between

previous adversaries in the Middle East and now anti-Semitism again. Also, a conversation

a wonderful happy conversation about the Battle of Pittsburgh, June 11, 1863, was Salinas

ito. The Battle of Pittsburgh looked like this way. Pittsburgh heard that Lee and 75,000

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