PREVIEW: IRAQ: SAUDI ARABIA: Colleague Michael Knights of the Washington Institute examines the competing Shia gangs that continue to launch drones and missiles into Israel from Iraq and sometimes from Saudi Arabia. More tonight. 1917 BaghdadDi John Batchelor

I welcome professor H.W. Brands. His new book: America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh and the Shadow of War. - (@johnbatchelor) November 20, 2024Di noreply@johnbatchelor.substack.com (johnbatchelor)

PREVIEW: NATIONAL SECURITY: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION: Colleague Cliff May of FDD evaluates the promising entrance of Marco Rubio at State to lead the Trump team on geopolitics and national security along with NSA Mike Waltz of Florida. More tonight. 1940Di John Batchelor

PREVIEW: RUSSIA: NATO: Colleague Anatol Lieven of Quincy Institute comments on the opinion of Russians he has interviewed or spoken to about what NATO troops in Ukraine would trigger. More later. 1936 MoscowDi John Batchelor

GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Hong Kong at the show trial of Jimmy Lai... 1930 Hong Kong CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9-915 1/2: #HONG KONG: Jimmy Lai on trial for speaking of freedom. Mark Simon, Apple Daily (closed). @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 915-930 2/2: #HONG KONG: Jimmy Lai on trial for advancing fr…

2/2: #RUSSIA: Abkhazia and the Black Sea railroad link to Eurasia. Ekaterina Zolotova, @GPFutures. 2006Di John Batchelor

1/2: #RUSSIA: Abkhazia and the Black Sea railroad link to Eurasia. Ekaterina Zolotova, @GPFutures. 2007 AbkhaziaDi John Batchelor

2/2: #HOTEL MARS :The end of SLS? Eric Berger Ars Technica. David Livingston SpaceShow.com 1940Robert Goddard, Roswell, TXDi John Batchelor

1/2: #HOTEL MARS :The end of SLS? Eric Berger Arstechnica. David Livingston SpaceShow.com 1955Di John Batchelor

2/2: #PRC: Recommendations for confronting and containing and even combatting CCP in the New Year. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution. 1943 PekingDi John Batchelor

1/2: #PRC: Recommendations for confronting and containing and even combatting CCP in the New Year. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution. 1890 PekingDi John Batchelor

#RUSSIA: Inflation level accelerating. Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution 1863 GermanyDi John Batchelor

#DOGE: Poor idea, won't work -- and why. Tom Modly, American Thinker. 1940Di John Batchelor

#OPCW: Russia accused of CD gas drone dropped on Ukraine trenches. Andrea Stricker, FDD 1906 Dead London after the Martian attackDi John Batchelor

#PLA: significance of China's J-35A, J-20, J-10. General Blaine Holt , USAF (retired). @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 1960Di John Batchelor

#TAIWAN: Small arms to millions. Brandon Weichert, National Interest. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 1925Di John Batchelor

#NUKES: What is the nuclear weapon threshold? Peter Huessy, Deterrence Studies. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 1906 War of the WorldsDi John Batchelor

#SPACEX: Starship No 6 test and the floating plastic banana. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com 1955Di John Batchelor

#FRANCE: The Roman Empire City of Toulouse welcomes farmers. The Roman Empire City of Londinium provokes farmers. . Simon Constable, Occitanie 1911 Agrippina MInorDi John Batchelor

2/2: #HONG KONG: Jimmy Lai on trial for advancing freedom. Mark Simon, Apple Daily (closed). @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 1930sDi John Batchelor

1/2: #HONG KONG: Jimmy Lai on trial for speaking of freedom. Mark Simon, Apple Daily (closed). @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 1930 HKDi John Batchelor

PREVIEW: PRC: Colleague Peter Berkowitz of Hoover acknowledges that much must be done by the new administration to explain to the American people the threat of the predatory PRC. More tonight. 1949 MoscowDi John Batchelor

PREVIEW: DOGE: Colleague Tom Modly, former Acting Secretary of the U.S. Navy, explains that it is difficult to impossible to fire anyone in the U.S. government. More later. 1905 Federal Reserve BoardDi John Batchelor

PREVIEW: NASA: DOGE: SLS: Colleague Eric Berger of Ars Technica explains how an early challenge for Elon Musk as inventor of DOGE is to end the NASA "jobs program" of SLS. More tonight. 1951Di John Batchelor

PREVIEW: SPACEX: Space analyst Bob Zimmerman explains significance of the tethered plastic banana aboard Starship's sixth test flight cargo bay. More later. 1958Di John Batchelor

PREVIEW: PLA: STEALTH: Colleage USAF General Blaine Holt (ret) explains the PLA J-20 and J-10 warplanes that serve as the weight of PRC air defense. More tonight on the new shown J-35. 1951 F-86Di John Batchelor