Podcasts about kinzhal

Niega Sheinbaum que los aranceles a textiles estén ligados con China  No se contempla reforma fiscal  Ataque Ruso con misiles balísticos e hipersónicos Kinzhal contra Kiev  Más información en nuestro podcast

On air with Yulia Latynina, Alexey analyzed the limits of Russian impotence in the context of nuclear blackmail, the role of nuclear weapons in modern warfare, the role of Ukraine in the escalation of the conflict, the possible influence of Trump's policy on the course of this war, as well as the degradation of international institutions:➤ 00:00 Intercontinental ballistic missile hit Dnepr — another step in Russia's escalation of the war?➤ 04:30 Devalued policy: what should it be like according to Arestovich?➤ 06:36 New agreements with the President of Ukraine after Trump's victory.➤ 10:20 Russia's nuclear blackmail. Conventional warhead in an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).➤ 16:40 Will Trump save everyone from a second Cuban missile crisis?➤ 19:03 Farce of a contract war: why aren't NATO countries concerned about the launch of a Russian ICBM?➤ 22:10 Trump's capabilities.➤ 23:30 ATACMS missiles will not become a gamechanging weapon. Russia has lost the political advantage of waging war on foreign soil.➤ 26:22 The limits of Russian impotence. Why is Putin afraid of ATACMS? The means of influence that the Russian Federation has left.➤ 32:40 What does a nuclear strike give from a technical point of view, besides weakening the Russian position? Tactical nuclear weapons: the Russian Federation does not have troops that are ready to attack and develop an offensive through a nuclear spot. Strategic nuclear weapons: single strikes will not work.➤ 38:55 Ukraine has many military targets for ATACMS missiles to hit on Russian territory. Why was permission to use ATACMS given only now?➤ 44:50 What was the Russian command post doing in Kursk region?➤ 46:51 Why are Russian Iskander and Kinzhal missiles striking Ukrainian energy, and not Ukrainian command posts?➤ 50:32 Consequences of the possible use of nuclear weapons by the Russian army.➤ 52:04 The West is not afraid of Russia's nuclear comedy.➤ 57:15 The war was lost by Ukraine in the fall of 2022.Original in Russian: https://youtu.be/k0Jb9mCzWBY Latynina.TV - Alexey Arestovych, Day 988. #latyninatv #arestovych -- English translation #PrivateerStation(Yulia's Channel in Russian: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzaqqlriSjVyc795m86GVyg)Olexiy Arestovych (Kiev): Former Advisor to the Office of the President of Ukraine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksiy_ArestovychOfficial channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjWy2g76QZf7QLEwx4cB46gYulia Latynina is a Russian writer and journalist. She is a columnist for Novaya Gazeta and the most popular host at the Echo of Moscow radio station for years (both media prohibited in Russia since 04/2022). Yulia Latynina has written more than twenty books, including fantasy and crime fiction. She left Russia after a series of attacks on her person (her life was repeatedly threatened, her home was attacked with some caustic gas, injuring 8 people and her vehicle was set on fire)Official channel: http://latynina.tv/Julia's FB: https://www.facebook.com/yulia.latyni...Twitter: https://twitter.com/YLatyninaTelegram: https://t.me/YlatyninaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/latynina.tv/ #war #Putin #Ukraine #Latynina #LatyninaTV #YuliaLatynina #латынина #латынинатв #ukrainewar #ukrainerussia #ukrainerussiawar #russia #donbass #macron #missilestrike #schütze #severodonetsk #kherson #zolotoy #biden #Arestovych #kremenchug #g7 #nato #fifthproject #lisichansk #tvRain #SindeyevaBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/privateer-station-war-in-ukraine--5647439/support.

Esplosioni sono state segnalate a Kiev subito dopo un allarme aereo, ma le autorità hanno negato che la Russia abbia attaccato la capitale ucraina. L'aeronautica militare ucraina ha affermato che l'allarme aereo è scattato a causa del lancio di missili ipersonici Kinzhal, ma l'amministrazione militare della città di Kiev ha successivamente reso noto che la capitale non era l'obiettivo dell'attacco e che i sistemi di difesa aerea locali non sono stati attivati.ISCRIVITI E SEGUI NOTIZIE DALL'UCRAINA:   YouTube: https://bit.ly/3FqWppn     Spreaker: https://bit.ly/42g2ONG   Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3JE1OMi   Spotify: https://spoti.fi/40bpm0v   Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3lfNzUy   Amazon Podcast: https://amzn.to/40HVQ37 Audible: https://bit.ly/4370ARc    I PODCAST ADNKRONOS:   Fa notizia da 60 anni: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/adnkronos60_podcast/ Aggiungi contatto: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/aggiungi_contatto/   Notizie dall'Ucraina: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/notizie_ucraina/     Israele sotto attacco: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/israele_sotto_attacco/  Le Storie, La Storia: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/le_storie_la_storia/    Sanremo Express: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/sanremo_podcast_2024        RESTA IN CONTATTO CON NOI:   https://www.adnkronos.com/      https://twitter.com/Adnkronos      https://www.facebook.com/AgenziaAdnKronos      https://www.instagram.com/adnkronos_/ 

In December, I wrote in The Current about volunteering for 10 days in western Ukraine, where I prepared vacuum-packed, dehydrated meals (including borscht) for the front in the war against invading Russian troops. I returned last month to work again with Lviv Volunteer Kitchen and to lead drama therapy workshops, a remnant of a former career and a little break from the war for Ukrainians. A session with psychology students at a university in Kyiv was interrupted by air raid sirens; the students conjured imaginary air defense missiles but the dean broke the fourth wall and announced the alert was possibly a wave of hypersonic Kinzhal missiles. The students were sent to the bomb shelter, and I sat in the dean's office drinking a cappuccino. "I grew up in New York City in the 1980s, so I'm used to living in danger," I said. She smiled as if I were a lunatic. Just about everyone I met wanted the war to end but also believed the only way to remain independent was to keep fighting. It's possible to overstate the incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder, but the entire country is at risk. I frequently saw men without limbs navigating the baroque streets of Lviv and gasped at how many had been buried in the Field of Mars cemetery since my last visit. Battle losses in the east and a third winter of relentless Russian attacks on the power grid have worn the Ukrainian people down. Yet they somehow maintain their decency. At the volunteer kitchen, my aggressive productivity at dressing chickens despite my vegetarianism surprised me. I also spent a day making camouflage nets to help Ukrainian soldiers avoid drone attacks. But my main mission was drama therapy, and Zoya Romanets, an energetic psychodramatist, scheduled eight workshops for 200 psychologists, university students and artists in Lviv, Kyiv and Irpin, a suburb that was occupied and heavily damaged by Russian forces in March 2022. Images of war and weapons came up in every session. In one group in Lviv, students traveled on a magic carpet to Crimea - occupied by Russia since 2014 and a raging war zone - and had a beach party, singing "The Caucasus" by Ukraine's national poet, Taras Shevchenko. To conclude, we passed around a magic seashell that granted their wishes: peace, victory and to be reunited with friends and family. During another session in Lviv, some members asked to remove an imaginary pile of weapons, while others refused, even for make-believe. I was thinking it might be best to avoid diving too deeply into war themes, but then Claudia volunteered to do an individual session. We imagined flying over Mariupol, her hometown. She described the month she spent underground in 2022, fleeing just before the city was reduced to rubble. I understood all this even before my translator rendered her words into English. She wanted to go home, but could not. On my final night in Lviv, I attended a Passover seder for the first time in four decades at the invitation of Volodymyr Puzyrko, a diplomat and lawyer whom I'd met the night before at a jazz club in a scene out of a John le Carré novel. I endured a two-hour Passover Haggadah in Ukrainian, which probably made my Galitzianer ancestors happy, although I could hear them yelling, "Eat more!" A few hours after I arrived in Kyiv by overnight train, I walked through Bucha, the leafy suburb that Russian forces briefly occupied in their attempt to encircle the capital and overthrow the government in February and March 2022. They destroyed much of the town and killed hundreds of civilians. Standing in a rebuilt neighborhood, it was difficult to imagine the line of charred Russian tanks and bodies that had littered the streets two years earlier. Later that day in Irpin, I led a workshop in a university building next door to a burned-out husk. Because we were closer to danger than in Lviv, I assumed the session would focus on war themes, but group members - especially the men - were more interested in traveling the world, arranging ...

Noticias Económicas y Financieras $NVDA El fabricante de chips en el centro de la revolución de la IA capturará la cámara esta tarde, y muchos harán grandes apuestas antes de la publicación de las ganancias de Nvidia después de la campana. Es una de las acciones de las que más se habla en el mundo financiero, y con razón. La compañía está ayudando a construir toda la infraestructura necesaria para impulsar la inteligencia artificial generativa, vendiendo procesadores avanzados a todos los peces gordos de la tecnología que están gastando dinero en hardware como en la década de 1990. El Departamento de Energía de EE.UU. está liberando 1 millón de barriles de gasolina (42 millones de galones) de la Reserva de Suministro de Gasolina del Noreste para ayudar a "bajar los precios en el surtidor a medida que los estadounidenses salen a la carretera este verano". La reserva fue autorizada en 2014, dos años después de que el huracán Sandy dañara las refinerías, pero el depósito nunca se había utilizado y debía cerrarse de conformidad con una ley que el Congreso aprobó en marzo. Si bien los precios de la gasolina han subido aproximadamente un 15 % hasta la fecha, algunos dicen que la publicación no supondrá una diferencia significativa en la región de la costa este, que consumió más de 3 millones de barriles diarios de gasolina solo en junio pasado. $BHP El tiempo corre en la ambiciosa oferta de BHP para adquirir su rival Anglo American (OTCQX:AAUKF), ya que la minera más grande del mundo tiene hasta las 12 p. m., hora del Este, para hacer una oferta de adquisición vinculante. Anglo American ya rechazó dos propuestas de BHP y en su lugar reveló una importante reestructuración de la empresa que incluía planes para vender o escindir sus negocios de carbón siderúrgico, níquel, platino y diamantes. Si BHP decide dejar de buscar un acuerdo, tendrá que mantenerse alejado durante al menos seis meses, según las normas de adquisiciones del Reino Unido. El sector de defensa está de guardia después de que el ejército ruso iniciara ejercicios para simular el uso de armas nucleares tácticas, que incluyen el misil Kinzhal, la primera arma hipersónica utilizada en la guerra de Ucrania. Se dijo que los ejercicios, ordenados por el presidente Vladimir Putin, eran en respuesta a "declaraciones provocativas" de funcionarios de Europa occidental, incluido el presidente francés Emmanuel Macron. Las armas nucleares tácticas son menos destructivas que las conocidas como bombas estratégicas que pueden arrasar una ciudad, pero aún así tienen un poder significativo. El arsenal estimado de ojivas nucleares de Rusia asciende a unas 1.500. $DIS Pixar de Disney despide personal en medio de continuos recortes de costos. $M Macy's mejora las perspectivas incluso cuando caen las ventas comparables. $TSLA Tesla destaca el potencial de los semi eléctricos en una conferencia. $AAPL Apple pide a un tribunal de Nueva Jersey que desestime la demanda antimonopolio del Departamento de Justicia.

Massiccio attacco aereo della Russia su tutta l'Ucraina. Prese di mira le infrastrutture energetiche nelle regioni di Kharkiv, Kiev, Zaporizhzhia e Leopoli. Gli ingegneri sono al lavoro per ripristinare i siti colpiti. 2 le centrali elettriche danneggiate. Mosca ha lanciato contro Kiev, droni, missili da crociera dai bombardieri Tu-95 e missili ipersonici Kinzhal. Lo stato maggiore delle forze armate ucraine ha riferito che le difese ucraine hanno abbattuto 37 dei 40 droni di tipo Shahed lanciati dalla Russia.ISCRIVITI E SEGUI NOTIZIE DALL'UCRAINA:   YouTube: https://bit.ly/3FqWppn     Spreaker: https://bit.ly/42g2ONG   Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3JE1OMi   Spotify: https://spoti.fi/40bpm0v   Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3lfNzUy   Amazon Podcast: https://amzn.to/40HVQ37 Audible: https://bit.ly/4370ARc    I PODCAST ADNKRONOS:   Fa notizia da 60 anni: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/adnkronos60_podcast/ Aggiungi contatto: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/aggiungi_contatto/   Notizie dall'Ucraina: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/notizie_ucraina/     Israele sotto attacco: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/israele_sotto_attacco/  Le Storie, La Storia: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/le_storie_la_storia/    Sanremo Express: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/sanremo_podcast_2024        RESTA IN CONTATTO CON NOI:   https://www.adnkronos.com/      https://twitter.com/Adnkronos      https://www.facebook.com/AgenziaAdnKronos      https://www.instagram.com/adnkronos_/  

I violenti scontri degli ultimi mesi e le perdite di diversi sistemi di difesa, tra cui i Patriot, hanno indebolito le difese ucraine messe sempre più sotto pressione dai massicci raid russi. Da Kiev arriva un appello all'occidente del ministro degli Esteri Kuleba: “Fate presto, questi dannati Patriot ci servono subito”.ISCRIVITI E SEGUI NOTIZIE DALL'UCRAINA:YouTube: https://bit.ly/3FqWppnSpreaker: https://bit.ly/42g2ONGApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3JE1OMiSpotify: https://spoti.fi/40bpm0vGoogle Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3lfNzUyAmazon Podcast: https://amzn.to/40HVQ37Audible: https://bit.ly/4370ARcI PODCAST ADNKRONOS:Fa notizia da 60 anni: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/adnkronos60_podcast/Aggiungi contatto: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/aggiungi_contatto/Notizie dall'Ucraina: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/notizie_ucraina/Israele sotto attacco: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/israele_sotto_attacco/Le Storie, La Storia: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/le_storie_la_storia/Sanremo Express: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/sanremo_podcast_2024RESTA IN CONTATTO CON NOI:https://www.adnkronos.com/https://twitter.com/Adnkronoshttps://www.facebook.com/AgenziaAdnKronoshttps://www.instagram.com/adnkronos_/

Is the world "outta time"? Does Poland's Notice-to-All-Air-Missions, concerning Feb. 5-May 5, indicate WWIII within this time frame?  What's happening in Poland that could be so sensitive?  Has the "petro dollar" been exterminated? What's happening at the Gaza/Egypt border?  Could the US defend against Kinzhal or Zircon missiles?  What did Henry Gruver see that is now coming true?  As Jeremiah describes the painful destruction of a country that now "opposes the Lord" (USA), what glorious rays of promises come through the pages in chapters 50-51? Extermination of Christian West TX border wide open: https://www.goyimtv.com/v/1034549356/EAGLE-PASSED Abbott – we'll have border control by Jan. 20 '25 (Trump inauguration): https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/01/26/tucker-carlson-interviews-texas-gov Abbot and Trump are WEF'rs: https://greeknewsondemand.com/2024/01/28/greg-abbott-donald-trump-are-both-wef-israel-stooges-abbott-discussed-brexit-at-davos-2020-where-trump-said-klaus-is-doing-a-great-job-will-trump-choose-abbott-as-his-vp/ernor-greg-abbott-we-are-prepared-for-conflict-with-federal-authorities/ Texas Illuminati card of 1995 being played now?: https://t.me/Revelations_and_Rabbit_Holes/9031 There goes the “petro dollar”: https://t.me/GodsRoadmap/1923 UK problem – under 14 yo death rate up 22%: https://t.me/VigilantFox/10685 Migrants who assaulted police exiting court after no-bail release: https://t.me/disclosetv/13209 MAID (Canadian euthanasia machine) murders 13 yo girl wo parental consent: https://t.me/AltSkull48/12840 Deborah Tavaras found a doc on NASA site, site no longer operative, re what weapons will be used against American citizens (beam weapons, Air Force, cyborg take-over 2025, microdust, 36 min, well worth the time): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN4XICOyRb8 Some border patrol bought off?: https://youtube.com/shorts/Q4O6HJSR-CA?si=Lclzg2b7i15CPt2r Dollar dead: https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-07-23-why-the-dollar-is-finished.html Fed Chair warning – fed spending unsustainable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3yRbLrsRl0 Credit card nonpayments surge: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/06/credit-card-delinquencies-surged-in-2023-indicating-financial-stress-new-york-fed-says.html Seattle gives BLM destroyers $10 million: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/city-of-seattle-settles-blm-protesters-lawsuit-for-10-million/  NWO Dutch war for right to produce food to go west-wide?: https://vigilantnews.com/post/chaos-erupts-in-brussels-as-rubber-bullets-fired-at-farmers-protesting-outside-eu-parliament/ Farmer protest spreads throughout Europe: https://t.me/VigilantFox/10736 Well, maybe it's already global: https://t.me/GeneralMCNews/7185 Lecture in 1969, “no one can stop us,” 50-year-old lecture describes our lives right now; “Once the Roman Catholic Church is brought down, the rest of Christianity will follow easily.”; “Some of you probably think the Churches won't stand for this,” and he went on to say, “the churches will help us!”; conclusion – they know that true Christians/Yeshua-believers are their #1 enemy:   https://expose-news.com/2024/02/06/astonishing-predictions-from-dr-richard-day-1969-part-1-plans-much-bigger-than-communism/ “Texas State Militia is a problem … let's outlaw it”: https://t.me/AltSkull48/12920 Is Texas militia “well regulated”?: https://theconversation.com/why-the-second-amendment-protects-a-well-regulated-militia-but-not-a-private-citizen-militia-162489 Francis in Vatican - worship Satan: https://rumble.com/v4c1qni-pope-francis-orders-christians-to-pray-to-satan-for-real-enlightenment.html  FF being cooked up?: https://gregreese.substack.com/p/false-flag-warnings-for-martial-law?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=12g59e#play Marxist Confusion 50-yr old male-who-professes-to-be-female joins a teenage schoolgirls' swimming team (can enter their ...

On the version of Hot off the Wire posted Jan. 2 at 6:45 a.m. CT: TOKYO (AP) — A plane has caught fire on the runway of Tokyo's Haneda airport after colliding with a Japanese coast guard aircraft, officials said. Local TV showed a large burst of fire erupt from the side of a Japan Airlines plane as it taxied on a runway. The area around the wing then caught fire. NHK TV reported that all occupants of the passenger plane, believed to total 379 people, got out safely. The coast guard said the pilot of its plane evacuated safely. NHK reported that the other five crewmembers were found dead. Haneda is one of the busiest airports in Japan, and many people travel over the New Year holidays. WAJIMA, Japan (AP) — A series of powerful earthquakes has hit western Japan, leaving at least 48 people dead and damaging thousands of buildings, vehicles and boats. Officials are warning people in some areas on Tuesday to stay away from their homes because of a risk of more strong quakes. Aftershocks continued to shake Ishikawa prefecture and nearby areas a day after a magnitude 7.6 temblor slammed the area on Monday afternoon. Officials say at least 48 people are confirmed dead and 16 seriously injured in Ishikawa. Japan is frequently hit by earthquakes because of its location along the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin. ROCHESTER, New York (AP) — Police are investigating after a fiery two-vehicle collision killed two people and injured five others in Rochester, New York, early on New Year's Day. Officials say a Ford Expedition struck a Mitsubishi Outlander, sending both vehicles through a group of pedestrians in a crosswalk. Investigators say once the flames were doused, firefighters located at least a dozen gasoline cannisters in and around the Expedition. That prompted police to bring in an arson team and alert the FBI. Investigators ask witnesses or anyone with information to reach out to police. KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's two largest cities have come under Russian hypersonic ballistic missile attacks. Officials said the Tuesday morning assaults killed at least four people and injured almost 100, as the war approached its two-year milestone and the Kremlin's forces stepped up their winter bombardment of urban areas. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said four civilians were killed and 92 injured in the capital Kyiv and in northeastern Kharkiv as hypersonic Kinzhal missiles that can fly at 10 times the speed of sound slammed into city blocks. The barrage extended Russia's escalated attacks on Ukraine in recent days that began on Friday with its largest single assault on Ukraine since the war started, in which at least 41 civilians were killed. VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The family of a mother of eight who was a huge “Star Trek” fan has ensured the final frontier will be her ultimate resting place. Gloria Knowlan died 12 years ago. A small quantity of ashes from her cremated body are to be in one of 250 memorial capsules set to be launched into space later this month. Launch organizers are hoping the rocket carrying the capsules will wind up approximately 330 million kilometers from Earth, roughly past the orbit of Mars. The remains or DNA samples of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, and Original Series stars Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley and James Doohan also are expected to make the trip. WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts is turning his focus to the promise and shortcomings of artificial intelligence in the federal courts. His annual report makes no mention of Supreme Court ethics or legal controversies involving Donald Trump. Roberts on Sunday described artificial intelligence as the “latest technological frontier" and discussed the pros and cons of computer-generated content in the legal profession. The year-end report was issued just a few days after the latest instance of AI-generated fake legal citations making their way into official court records. Roberts wrote that AI can make it much easier for people without much money to access the courts, but that any use of AI “requires caution and humility.” WASHINGTON (AP) — In this time of war overseas, more Americans think foreign policy should be a top U.S. priority for 2024. That's according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which finds international concerns and immigration rising in importance with the public. Those concerns are still overshadowed by long-standing economic worries. But about 4 in 10 U.S. adults named foreign policy topics in an open-ended question that asked people to share up to five issues for the government to work on next year. That's about twice as many who mentioned the topic in the AP-NORC poll conducted a year ago. WASHINGTON (AP) — The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group is heading home after months of extra duty at sea providing protection for Israel. The Navy announced Monday the Ford and its accompanying warships will be replaced by the amphibious assault ship the USS Bataan and its two accompanying warships, the USS Mesa Verde and the USS Carter Hall. The three vessels had been in the Red Sea and have been transiting toward the Eastern Mediterranean over the last few days. Since it was extended in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Ford and the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier have been part of a two-carrier presence bracketing the Israel-Hamas war, underscoring U.S. concerns the conflict will widen. WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John Fetterman acknowledges having “dark conversations” about harming himself before he hit “the emergency brake” and sought treatment for depression. In an interview with NBC's `"Meet the Press," the Pennsylvania Democrat described his thoughts at that time as, “I can't be a blueprint for my children. I can't let them be left alone or not to understand why he would have done that." So he checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center last February. Fetterman wondered whether he'd survive politically. He said that “when it got released where I was and where it was going, it was a big story. And so, I had assumed that that would be the end of my career.” LONDON (AP) — A Colorado mother suspected of killing two of her young children and injuring a third has made an initial court appearance in London. Kimberlee Singler was held after her initial appearance in Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday. She has a Jan. 29 hearing scheduled on whether she should be extradited to the United States to face two counts of first-degree murder and other charges. The 35-year-old disappeared as Colorado police prepared to arrest her in the deaths of her 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son, who were found slain Dec. 19 in what was reported as a burglary. She disappeared last week and was arrested Saturday in London. RIVERDALE, Utah (AP) — A foreign exchange student from China who was reported missing last week in Utah has been found. Authorities said the student and his family appear to be victims of a “cyber kidnapping” scheme. The 17-year-old student was reported missing Friday, a day after he was last seen at the home where he had been staying. Police in Riverdale initially said that they believed the student was forcefully abducted. But on Sunday they said the boy had been found safe in a tent about 25 miles away. Police say Kai's family paid an $80,000 ransom after receiving a photograph that made it appear the student was abducted. SECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey mayor says buses of migrants bound for New York City have been stopping at the town's train station in an apparent effort to evade New York's efforts to regulate migrant arrivals. Secaucus Mayor Michael Gonnelli said Sunday that four buses are believed to have arrived starting Saturday at Secaucus Junction and dropped off migrants who then took trains into New York City. He called it a “loophole” around the order by New York Mayor Eric Adams. A message posted on a Jersey City social media account said about 10 buses from Texas and one from Louisiana had arrived at various transit stations throughout the state. New Year's Day arrived to cheers from thousands in New York's Times Square where a sparkling crystal ball descended to start 2024 with hope for some, even as the world's ongoing conflicts subdued celebrations and raised security concerns across the globe. The march of midnight across time zones included pyrotechnic displays centered on iconic locations including Sydney's Opera House, the Acropolis in Athens, the world's tallest building in Dubai and the bamboo-shaped Taipei 101 skyscraper in Taiwan. The wars in Ukraine and Gaza have affected this year's New Year's Eve celebrations in a myriad of ways. Many cities deployed extra security and some places canceled events altogether. ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York's minimum-wage workers have more than just the new year to celebrate. A pay bump kicked in Monday as the clock ticked over to 2024. In the first of a series of annual increases slated for the Empire State, the minimum wage increased to $16 in New York City and some of its suburbs, up from $15. In the rest of the state, the new minimum wage is $15, up from $14.20. New York is one of 22 states getting minimum wage increases in the new year. In California, the minimum wage increased to $16, up from $15.50. It will be Michgan and Washington in the College Football National title game, the Pistons start a new skid and Pacers end the Bucks' home winning streak. Also: We preview the final week of the NFL season and recap this past Sunday's games. —The Associated Press About this program Host Terry Lipshetz is managing editor of the national newsroom for Lee Enterprises. Besides producing the daily Hot off the Wire news podcast, Terry conducts periodic interviews for this Behind the Headlines program, co-hosts the Streamed & Screened movies and television program and is the former producer of Across the Sky, a podcast dedicated to weather and climate. Lee Enterprises produces many national, regional and sports podcasts. Learn more here.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Vladimir Poutine, en visite en Chine pour la Belt and Road Initiative, s'est fait très ostensiblement filmer avec la "Cheget" ou la valise nucléaire de la Fédération de Russie, désormais premèire puissance nucléaire mondiale par la technologie. Quelques dizaines d'heures plus tôt, il avait déclaré que face à la présence de deux groupes aéronavals américains en Méditerranée orientale il lui semblait nécessaire de mettre en alerte permanente au dessus de la Mer Noire un escadron de Mig-31 (capables d'une vitesse de pointe de 3000 km/h) munis de vecteurs hypersoniques Kinzhal eux-mêmes capable d'une pointe à 12 000 km/h... ce qui nous donne 240 secondes pour toucher une cible à très forte valeur de la Mer Noire à la Méditerranée orientale donc... Parallèlement des échanges de plus en plus inquiétants ont eu lieu entre l'Iran et Israël, et l'Arabie Saoudite a ordonné à ses ressortissants au Liban de quitter le pays dans les plus brefs délais. Le tragique jeu des alliances qui a précipité le monde dans la Grande Guerre en 1914 n'était qu'une plaisanterie face à celui qui s'est mis en place au Moyen-Orient. Heureusement, informer c'est prévenir, et en faisant circuler l'information mille fois plus vite aujourd'hui, on peut espérer que la raison, elle, suivra.

Latest news from 18 October 2023, as reported in the Ukrainian media. Easy ways to support us: Subscribe to our Patreon to give monthly support https://www.patreon.com/highlightsfromukraine Send us a one-time 'thank you' tip via PayPal at: highlightsfromukraine@gmail.com Out YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3oH111z Special thanks to our top Patreon supporters - Helena Pszczolko O'Callaghan, mattg629, krissi, Jared and Dick Warner!

Fabian Hoffmann is a PhD scholar at the Oslo Nuclear Project. His research focuses on the proliferation, deployment and use of "non-nuclear strategic weapons", particularly conventional precision strike capabilities, and their implications for nuclear strategy and wider nuclear weapons policy (e.g. nuclear proliferation and nuclear disarmament). Before joining the University of Oslo, Fabian worked as a research assistant at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). He holds an MA in War Studies from King's College London, UK, and a BA in International Relations from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Nuclear weapons pose an enduring challenge to international security. The Oslo Nuclear Project is a research program, which analyzes nuclear challenges to the international security. The program also educates a new generation of experts on nuclear weapons and international security.   Chapters: 00:00 Where did your interest in international relations come from? 10:00 Is preventing war a motivation for studying war? 13:00 Being naïve vs being realistic. Is war a part of our nature? 17:00 Should we be exposed more or less to war? 22:23 Where is the knowledge on nuclear weapons located? 24:40 It's not in Putin's interest to use nuclear weapons. 29:40 Potential different kinds of nuclear strikes  32:57 Tactical nuclear weapons vs. strongest conventional weapons 36:00 Nuclear deterrence 37:50 The hierarchy of military units from firing squad to division and corps 39:39 Potential use of tactical nukes in Ukraine? 40:58 NATO would have to get involved if Russia used nukes 50:00 Could Putin potentially escalate from tactical to strategic ICBM's? 53:42 The current nuclear power balance in the world 57:00 Which countries have nuclear weapons? 58:30 Should Ukraine have kept their nukes, 1994 Budapest memorandun., 01:03:40 Where is the tacit knowledge on creating nuclear weapons located? 01:11:25 The US can't produce the F22 Raptor anymore, due to lack of competent people and tacit knowledge 01:15:00 Would we accept new western countries acquiring nuclear weapons? Like Norway? 01:22:50 Mutual Assured Destruction, communications and retaliation 01:29:25 US tracking russian SSBN's (Sub Surface Ballistic Nuclear subs) in the Atlantic for weeks 01:33:00 How does a nuclear warhead work? 3 different kinds 01:45:25 The Russian Tsar boma, biggest nuclear explosion ever. 01:47:00 Transparency 01:51:00 Iran, Stuxnet, Saudi Arabia and North Korea 02:00:00 Missile defences, the Kinzhal and the US Patriot systems 02:21:21 USS Gerald R. Ford in the Oslo Fjord 02:23:30 F16's, AIM-120 AMRAAM, should we give them to Ukraine? 02:28:20 How long will the western support for Ukraine last? NATO membership? 02:35:49 UN peacekeeping forces, could they enter Ukraine? 02:42:46 Taiwan and China – the next big conflict? Nuclear risk? 02:50:46 Possible outcomes of Ukraine-Russia conflict

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, we are joined by friend of the show, Congressman Dusty Johnson of South Dakota. Later in the program, we speak with Dr. James Bosbotinis, a UK-based specialist in defense and international affairs.-Dusty Johnson brings an energetic and optimistic style to Washington as South Dakota's lone voice in the U.S. House of Representatives. A recognized leader in issues related to rural America, agriculture, and welfare reform, he serves on the Agriculture Committee and as Chairman of the Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee. As a member of the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, Dusty has been focused on finding solutions to the supply chain crisis through his Ocean Shipping Reform Act which passed the House in 2021. Appointed to the Select Committee on China, Dusty addresses the 360-degree threat posed by China, especially their ownership of American ag land and ag businesses and control over tech. Prior to being elected to Congress, he served as chief of staff to the Governor and as vice president of an engineering firm specializing in rural telecommunications. Dusty lives in Mitchell with his wife and three sons.-Dr James Bosbotinis is a specialist in defence and international affairs. He has particular expertise in the study of contemporary maritime strategy, assessing naval and air force developments, geopolitical analysis, and generating understanding of the connections between maritime strategy and national policy. Dr Bosbotinis has extensive experience encompassing academic and policy-relevant research and analysis for a range of customers, including UK government bodies. He has written widely on issues including the development of British maritime strategy, maritime airpower, Russian maritime doctrine, naval and wider military (including nuclear) modernisation, long-range strike technologies (including hypersonic weapons) and their impact on strategy, and China's evolving strategy. He is the Book Reviews Editor of The Naval Review, and an Associate Member of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies, King's College London.”-Connect with us:www.breakingbattlegrounds.voteTwitter: www.twitter.com/Breaking_BattleFacebook: www.facebook.com/breakingbattlegroundsInstagram: www.instagram.com/breakingbattlegroundsLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/breakingbattlegrounds- TranscriptionSam Stone: [00:00:11] Welcome to Breaking battlegrounds with your host, Chuck Warren. I'm Sam Stone. Folks, up first as our guest today, a returning guest and friend of the program. Welcome to Congressman Dusty Johnson, the lone representative from South Dakota. He serves on the as chairman of the Commodity Markets Digital Assets and Agriculture Committee. Or sorry, I am all over the place reading this today. He serves on the Agriculture Committee and as chairman of the Commodity Markets, Digital Assets and Rural Development Subcommittee and as a member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. He's also been doing a lot of work as part of the Select Committee on China. Dusty, thank you so much for joining us and welcome to the program.Congressmen Dusty Johnson: [00:00:53] Well, thanks for having me again. I'm glad I didn't flunk the first appearance.Chuck Warren: [00:00:57] We are, too. I've been horrible for ratings. All right. So China has made a secret agreement with Cuba, which is about 100 miles south of Florida. For those of you who bet on geography that they're going to do electronic eavesdropping facility in Cuba, is this alarming or should it be?Congressmen Dusty Johnson: [00:01:16] It is alarming. It's alarming for two reasons. Number one, I mean, they're going to have the capability to do all kinds of electronic surveillance across the southeastern United States from there. That's going to give them access to stuff that they don't otherwise have. They can't get this same stuff from space. They could get it from balloons. But obviously, balloons are pretty easy to to bring down. So this is going to give them new capabilities, particularly to scoop up information communications from military sites in the southeastern United States. But the second reason it's concerning is that it shows additional provocation by Xi Jinping. They just keep pushing the envelope. They keep pushing us. They want us to know that they're going to be the bosses of the next 100 years. And it's a problem. I mean, we have a rules based international system was largely erected by the United States after World War II and our allies. And China hates it. They just hate it. They don't think those rules of fair play make any sense. They want to knock down that system and build a new international system with their values at the core of it. And all of these provocations are just part of a longer term strategy. And I would just say this by way of closure. They have a strategy. I'm not sure our country does. I think we just we don't have a thoughtful and deliberate plan on how to make sure that the next century continues to be part of, you know, an American century.Chuck Warren: [00:02:46] Speaking of that, so now we're talking about Cuba. Is the United States with really no strategy neglecting Central and South America, which China seems to be focusing on?Congressmen Dusty Johnson: [00:02:58] Yes. Yeah, we. So many Americans. I mean, we're in a little bit of an isolationist time. People want to, you know, America first. And listen, of course, when we make policies, we should look first to how is it going to impact America, How is it going to strengthen American prosperity and security? But America first can't mean America. Only some people will sometimes say, well, why would we care about Guyana? Why would we care about, you know, Qatar? Why would we care about Ukraine? But when we recede from international leadership and create a vacuum, China is all too willing to step up and fill that void. They love it. They love it when Americans put our head in the sand. They what I would call the Southern globe. They really are trying to be the dominant force there. China is the largest trading partner with every single South American country. That's it used to be America, and now it's China. In public opinion surveys, increasingly, citizens of African nations are saying that it is China that is the leader of the world and not the United States.Sam Stone: [00:04:03] Well, and that is a matter of world opinion, not U.S. Opinion, too. I think we have to take that into consideration. You can't be the leader of the world just because the people in your country say so.Congressmen Dusty Johnson: [00:04:14] Right. Yeah, that's a really good point. And I just think a world where people think China is in charge is a more dangerous world for freedom. And the thing that I've loved about America through the last 247 years is that to a greater degree than any other country in the history of the world, we have been on the side of the right guys, of the good guys, and we've fought for values. And, you know, we haven't been perfect, but we've gotten it right way more often than anybody else has. And that is not China's track record.Chuck Warren: [00:04:46] Well, and it's interesting. China has sort of become the world's loan shark. It's loaning money to these third world countries for ports, infrastructure. When they can't pay it back.Sam Stone: [00:04:57] They kneecap.Chuck Warren: [00:04:57] Them. They kneecap them. Exactly. And trademarked that term. And so we do that. And so that brings me to we talked about I feel the United States for decades has ignored Central and South America. Right? I mean, we have every abundant resource in the world in our hemisphere. We seem to ignore it. And now you have The Washington Post came out this morning with the Saudi crown prince privately threatened a major economic pain on the US amid a showdown over oil cuts. Leaked intelligence show. And now you have Saudi Arabia inviting China over. We just dropped the ball here. I mean, I don't I don't think I have felt this insecure about our ability in the world right now since I have the late 70s.Congressmen Dusty Johnson: [00:05:44] And I would tell you, this sort of sense of populism that's growing on both sides of the aisle is contributing to that. Free trade is out of vogue. It used to be that that was a key Republican value, that a willing buyer, a willing seller, that kind of free trade without undue government intervention that made both sides more prosperous. Again, it's voluntary. I mean, they're only going to enter into it if they if it makes their individual lives or country stronger. Correct? At least in theory. I mean, Colombia is the fifth largest market for American corn. Is that because Colombia's a top five nation in population or wealth? No, is because Colombians have some unique tastes for corn. No, it's because we have a free trade agreement with Colombia. And so the invisible hand just kind of wants this American product to flow toward that country. And this administration, the Biden administration has no trade policy, Zero. There have been no there's been no progress on any trade deal in the last two and a half years. And the world when I have people come to my office from other countries, they they want to do business with America. They want to buy our beef, our dairy, our corn. They want to buy our manufactured goods. And we are not making it very easy for them. And you're right, that kind of stepping back of American leadership is absolutely. Injuring American competitiveness.Sam Stone: [00:07:14] Well, they want to buy our products because our products are well made. They're safer than food coming from China. Know all of those things. We have this really good capitalist system, but at the head of it is a government that has no idea what it's doing and keeps making radical course changes between administrations. That has to be throwing out all of our allies for a loop.Congressmen Dusty Johnson: [00:07:37] That it is they they still realize that, you know, when we lead, we're the best leader in the world. There's nobody else can bring to the table what America does. They get a little nervous when they feel like America is too inward focused. Tony Blair, former prime minister of the United Kingdom, told me a few months ago that America's political division is a global security threat, that when our Republicans and our Democrats are bickering, the rest of the world gets concerned. And when we're getting along, when America is united, the whole world just breathes a sigh of relief. Oh, thank goodness. Mom and dad, they're the cops on the beat. There's going to be more security. There's going to be more free trade. There's going to be more prosperity across the globe. When we drop the ball, everybody feels it.Sam Stone: [00:08:30] How much is what China is doing right now is really reminiscent of an economic version, if you will, of the Empire Building of the 18th and 19th and early 20th century. How did they how do Chinese people view what they're trying to do in their territorial ambitions? Have you gotten any information on that from your briefings? I mean, do they have real popular support in their country for this sort of muscular foreign diplomacy?Congressmen Dusty Johnson: [00:09:00] We heard from two survivors of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Last week, it was the anniversary of the massacre. And what was most interesting to me about that briefing wasn't just replaying the terrible events of that day, but about how little awareness there is among the Chinese people about the actions of their government. The Great Chinese Firewall is for real. It is very difficult for everyday Chinese people to gain understanding of what their government is doing. And this is the most sophisticated surveillance state that has ever been constructed with human knowledge. And I don't I think Americans don't understand how bad it is. I mean, there are regions in China where you can only get toilet paper in a public restroom by scanning your ID. They want to know where you are. They want to know what you're doing. They want to know how much toilet paper you're using. This is an almost breathtakingly deep invasion of people's privacy, so people are not comfortable speaking out there. There is not a free media. And I not only do they not understand what their government is doing today, there is almost no historical memory of the fact that this has been a repressive and oppressive regime for decades. It is a major problem. The Chinese people are not are not an adversary to our nation. It is just Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party.Sam Stone: [00:10:35] Well, and that brings up a good point. You talk about the digital wall that they've created. I mean, one of the ways that we've really advanced towards ending the Cold War and ending the antagonism with the Soviet Union was with Voice of America, with other communications, where they started seeing on TV the lies their government was telling. Because their government says everyone in America, its poor, it's racked by race riots. All the time. It's a terrible place to live. And then I talked to one ex-Soviet who said, hey, they showed us that. But then they're saying these are the ghettos and everyone has cars and none of us had cars. How do we break through the digital wall? I mean, is there a way for us to start trying to to direct more information to these folks?Congressmen Dusty Johnson: [00:11:25] Yes. And I think things like low earth, low orbit satellites can can play a role in giving people access to Internet that doesn't go through the great Chinese firewall. It can help, you know, one, 1.5 billion Chinese people understand that their regime is evil and is working to make them subservient every single day. But that requires an investment like putting satellites up in space and giving people access to, you know, the World Wide Web. This is not something that happens for free. And I think in our political system right now, if somebody said, well, we want, you know, X hundreds of millions or, you know, a few billion dollars to be able to deploy these satellites like the Voice of America to cut through these tyrannical regimes. What do you all think? I mean, I think a lot of Americans would say, well, why do I care what's going on in Hong Kong? Why do I care what's going on? I mean, I just it seems like it doesn't affect my life.Chuck Warren: [00:12:24] And well.Congressmen Dusty Johnson: [00:12:25] The so I think we've got some information sharing we got to do. Well.Chuck Warren: [00:12:28] We're almost out of time here for this first segment. But I think my final comment here real quick is there's just so much going on in the world. You're saying, how much can I handle mentally? I think that's a big part of it. Now, we're with Congressman Dusty Johnson, South Dakota. This is breaking battlegrounds. Find us at breaking battlegrounds, dot vote or your favorite podcast. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Breaking Battlegrounds. I'm your host, Chuck Warren and Sam Stone. We are honored to have friend of the show, Congressman Dusty Johnson, Republican from South Dakota, a true leader in Congress. And folks, are you concerned about your retirement? You probably should be. Things aren't getting cheaper. Social Security going to have to be altered some, whether you like it or not, in the future. That's why Sam and I are recommending to you Yrefy? They are a great opportunity to help students pull out of their private loan college debts, and you can get up to a 10.25% return. That's right, 10.25%. So learn more about how to make your investment dollar go further better than the stock market, actually. And that's why we suggest you call Why Yrefy at eight, eight, eight. W Yrefy two four? Again, call eight, eight, eight Yrefy two four and tell him Chuck and Sam sent you.Sam Stone: [00:14:00] Congressman, thank you for sticking with us, folks. He's going to be on for one more segment after this. Also. So, Congressman, we very much thank you for your time this morning. But one thing we wanted to touch on before we move on to other topics is we've been talking about China. You're part of the China Select Committee. We had Congressman Dunn on the program a couple of weeks ago, and he told us something that I actually was not aware of and hadn't heard that all those little South Pacific islands that MacArthur used as essentially the latter to Japan and that we would, quite frankly, need in a war between Taiwan and China to be able to effectively operate in that theater. The Chinese, just like you were talking about in South America, they're making both economic and military overtures and essentially weaponizing that ladder against us. Can you tell us any more about that or is what are they doing? Because it seems very clear that they are gearing up for an attack on Taiwan.Congressmen Dusty Johnson: [00:15:01] Everything you said is absolutely spot on. And we talked about in the first segment about American leadership receding a fair amount across the broader world. There are diplomats who say, oh, you know, from from these smaller countries who say, when I talk to the Chinese, I get an airport. When I talk to the Americans, I get a scolding.Congressmen Dusty Johnson: [00:15:22] And.Sam Stone: [00:15:24] I'll take the airport. Thanks.Congressmen Dusty Johnson: [00:15:27] Yeah. And that's what they're saying now. They know that the airport is going to be built in a very shoddy manner. They know that there's this loan shark mentality that you described, but these are poor countries. And there are times when they've got their backs up against the wall where they don't really know what else to do. They also don't get the sense that this is I mean I mean, Americans have a tendency to view things in pretty stark terms in kind of black and white. I think, by the way, that's when we look at the Chinese Communist Party. We are right to look at them as the bad guys. I think it is that simple. I think Xi Jinping is every bit as big a villain and a tyrant as the famous tyrants of the 20th century we all learned about in third grade. And so I do think that that we are right to look at it in those terms. The rest of the world, you know, these poor countries, they're not so sure. They're trying to make sure their people are fed. And so when these overtures that you're talking about are made, they are far more open to them because America is a little missing in action. Now, I think we have an opportunity here to step up our game because they don't want to cut these deals with the Chinese, but we have to give them an alternative. One more thing in there have been some recent years where where China's Belt and Road initiative invested more money in the developing world than the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund combined. And so it's not just America that's getting outspent by the Chinese. It's really the entire free developed world. We just were getting lapped.Chuck Warren: [00:17:00] Do you think the American public, especially those under the age of 40, really understand what communism is?Congressmen Dusty Johnson: [00:17:05] No, and in part because both political parties are free to use those terms whenever they think that it will provide a short term political benefit. So we really don't I mean, there's not a deep understanding of different political philosophies. No, it is with some communities. It's very clear. I mean, Carlos Gimenez from Florida is on the Select Committee on China with Neal Dunn and myself. And he having spent some time early on in his life in Cuba, I think does understand the backbreaking poverty that can be caused by communism, by socialism. So it's not I mean, it is not unusual among Cuban Americans or among people who emigrated from Eastern Europe for them to understand those concepts. But native born Americans, we just don't get it.Chuck Warren: [00:17:56] I want to switch subjects real quick here. Let's talk about Isgs for a moment. So there's a report out today by the Texas Public Policy Foundation that says under Biden, oil and gas investment is down 80%, 80%. So we just talked earlier about Saudi Arabia threatening economic sabotage on the American economy because Biden doesn't know what he's doing. And now you have these folks that are afraid to put capital on new oil and gas wells, refineries, pipelines, etcetera. We have a problem here because we can be you know, look, there's two things. America should always be self-sufficient on food and energy. There's no reason for it. How do we turn this around?Congressmen Dusty Johnson: [00:18:38] And that is really well said. I do think food and energy are they are the very base of the pyramid. It's hard to build anything upwards if you don't have those as the foundation. And we know that it's almost impossible to cite big projects, whether they be energy or infrastructure in this country. The same project that you can get done in two years in France or Germany takes you five years to get done in this country. I mean, France is not generally considered a paragon of regulatory efficiency. So when we are getting our butts kicked by France, I think that is a should be a major wakeup call. And this is bipartisan, by the way. We've had Secretary Buttigieg come to our transportation committee and talk about how we need to streamline permitting. We have clearly, Senator Manchin has tried to be a leader on this issue. We have really made no meaningful progress until last week. Where the debt ceiling deal, the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which I think was pretty unfairly maligned by, you know, far right conservatives for the first time since the 1970s made major improvements in how we can streamline these things. It gives a shot clock for environmental review on energy projects and other projects. So you can't take five years to complete an environmental impact statement. It makes sure that there's a federal government, one agency who's the coordinator who's trying to drive these decisions to fruition. I mean, it does a lot of things that we've been talking about for a long time, but we need even more of it because I think affordable energy is a is an American competitive advantage and we are squandering it.Sam Stone: [00:20:21] Yeah, that's also very well said. It's a huge advantage. We have just about a minute here before we go back to break. We're going to be coming back for our third segment with more from Congressman Dusty Johnson of South Dakota. Congressman, how do folks follow you and your work? Stay in touch with both what you're doing at the Capitol and while you're at home there in South Dakota?Congressmen Dusty Johnson: [00:20:41] Well, at Rep Dusty Johnson, so Rep, Dusty Johnson kind of on all of the social media platforms, not TikTok, because that's just Chinese malware, but basically everywhere else, that's where we're at. And we'd love to have people join the conversation.Sam Stone: [00:20:56] I did a thing not too long ago for a group of folks asking about different social medias. I went through the purpose of each one of them. I got to Tik Tok and I said, If you have this, throw away your phone.Congressmen Dusty Johnson: [00:21:06] Yep, yep. It's true.Sam Stone: [00:21:09] Congressman, thank you so much. We're going to be coming back here with more from Congressman Dusty Johnson on breaking battlegrounds in just a few moments. We want to touch a little bit on something else that's going on that the congressman has been working on, particularly relating to food security here in the United States and to our our food systems. That has been a major focus of his. And thank goodness we do have some folks in there focusing on it. Folks, make sure you download and tune in to our podcast only segment. You can get that wherever you get your podcasts. We are doing quite a bit on that these days. Those segments keep getting longer and longer and Chuck and I have a nice argument for you at the end of this one. So folks, breaking battlegrounds. Back in just a moment. Welcome back to Breaking battlegrounds with your host, Chuck Warren. I'm Sam Stone. On the line with us right now, Congressman Dusty Johnson of South Dakota. Congressman, one of the things that you've been working on really since the pandemic has been our food supply security, its supply chain crisis overall. You've been working on the Ocean Shipping Reform Act. Tell us what's going on in both of those areas, because I think Americans still don't realize how fragile our supply chain has been ever since 2020 and continues to be right now.Congressmen Dusty Johnson: [00:22:37] There are a lot of factors that make that supply chain pretty fragile. I mean, we're 80,000 truck drivers short. We only have five major ocean carriers. And so if 1 or 2 of them decide that they're not interested in fairly hauling American products to market, we've got a problem. We had done somewhat of an underinvestment in infrastructure over the previous 20 years. I think that's beginning to move back in the right direction. So we do listen. We have some work to do. And just to give you an example, during the kind of the 18 months after the worst of the pandemic, so we've moved past the worst of health issues, but we were still dealing with some economic fragility. 60% of containers that were going back to Asia were going back empty. This at a time when we had American food products literally rotting on the on the on the docks there because the foreign flagged ocean carriers just wanted to make a quick turn. They didn't want to haul American goods. They wanted to get back, grab Chinese iPhones and bring them back quickly. And I totally get it in a in a true free market system. Okay.Congressmen Dusty Johnson: [00:23:49] Listen, you get to decide how you want to make your money. If you can make more money doing that, I guess, good on you. But these guys are using American ports. And I just think at some point you need some basic reciprocity. And we pass the Ocean Shipping Reform Act. It was signed into law last year that said, there has to be if you're going to use American ports, you've got to play by some very basic rules of the road, like not ignoring American goods just because you think it's convenient to do so. And then we're also passed out of committee two weeks ago, a bill that would allow trucks if they add a sixth axle to increase weight so we can have those truck drivers when they're on the road do so safely. It doesn't cause more damage to the roads, it doesn't cause more accidents. It just allows those hardworking men and women to to work smarter and more efficiently. But we've got about 100 other things like that we've got to do throughout the system. If we fail to act, we're just going to give China that much more control over the global economic system.Sam Stone: [00:24:48] Congressman, how much do you think and you touched on this earlier, talking about China, but also talking about just our investment, whether it be a low orbit satellite system here in the southwest. We desperately need some new consideration for desalination and pipelining of water. The power grid across the country is very vulnerable and needs to be hardened. There are all these major infrastructure needs or or project needs here and around the world that we should be participating in investing in. How much more would the American public trust our government if we just started getting these things done?Congressmen Dusty Johnson: [00:25:29] There is a sense that the era of big projects in America is kind of in the rear view mirror. And I think that's sad because I think the story of the 20th century in this country was so much about big projects, big dreams coming to fruition. I mean, rural electrification. The universal service where we everybody got a dial tone. The interstate highway system. We connected every one of the states. The the damn system that provides, you know, 15 or 20% of the electricity for this country. I mean, it was just major homerun after major homerun where we said this is America, this is the land of builders. And now it's like you can't I mean, you can't get anything built without spending, you know, ten years in litigation.Chuck Warren: [00:26:20] Right. Right.Chuck Warren: [00:26:21] And and it's people it.Congressmen Dusty Johnson: [00:26:22] Makes me sad because we need we need to bring back that American swagger of just competence and construction. That doesn't mean we're going to roll over any landowners rights, but I think it does mean that these getting a maybe answer after ten years is obnoxious. Let's give these companies a yes or no so they can figure out what to go invest in.Chuck Warren: [00:26:44] Well, maybe he's the third worst answer. The best answer is yes. Second best, no. The worst answers may be and that's what we keep doing and what's finally what's funny is the progressives want to keep pushing these things that delay these projects, which would help a lot of low income and middle income families. And I sort of have to agree with Sam. Sam thinks this is on purpose because they want to break America. Congressman 30s, tell us what's going good in America right now.Congressmen Dusty Johnson: [00:27:06] Well, research and development, technology, I mean, those are really the things that make people's everyday lives better. Government tries to screw that stuff up, but thank goodness we're failing and innovation continues.Chuck Warren: [00:27:21] We're with Congressman Dusty Johnson. Congressman, thank you for joining us today. You can find him on all social media, on Twitter at Rep. Dusty Johnson, same thing on Instagram, same thing on Facebook. Congressman, thanks a million.Sam Stone: [00:27:33] Never on TikTok.Chuck Warren: [00:27:34] Never on TikTok. It's communist. Thank you, Congressman. We appreciate it.Congressmen Dusty Johnson: [00:27:38] You bet. Thank you.Chuck Warren: [00:27:38] Bye bye. Bye.Sam Stone: [00:28:06] All right. Welcome back to Breaking Battlegrounds with your host, Chuck Warren. I'm Sam Stone. Folks, are you concerned with stock market volatility, especially with Joe Biden in office? What if you could invest in a portfolio with a high fixed rate of return that's not correlated to the stock market? A portfolio where you know what each monthly statement would look like with no surprises, you can turn your monthly income on or off, compound it, whatever you choose. There's no loss of principle. If you need your money back at any time, your interest is compounded daily, you're paid monthly and there are no fees. So go to investyrefy.com that's invest the letter Y, then refy.com or call them at 88yrefy 24 and get yourself in line to earn up to a 10.25% fixed rate of return. That's right, folks. 10.25% fixed. It's the best deal out there in investing today. So give them a call.investyefy.com or 888 y refy 24 and tell them Chuck and Sam sent you? All right, Chuck. Next up, a guest I'm very excited to talk to doing some very good work in the area of military affairs particularly, he is a specialist in defense and international affairs. They focus on maritime and Air Force developments. Welcome to the program, Dr. James Bosbotinis, He and thank you for joining us this morning. You have some fantastic pieces out on hypersonic weaponry that's being developed. Can you tell us first what is a hypersonic weapon?Dr James Bosbotinis: [00:29:29] Thank you very much. And, uh, it's my pleasure to be speaking to you today. A hypersonic weapon is basically a missile that travels at speeds of in excess of Mach five or faster than the five times faster than the speed of sound. The difference between a hypersonic missile as attention is being drawn to now and a traditional ballistic missile which travel at speeds above Mach five and have been in service, uh, for decades now, is that the new generation of hypersonic weapons that are being developed? Hypersonic glide vehicles and hypersonic cruise missiles can maneuver within the atmosphere. Which complicates detection, tracking and defense.Sam Stone: [00:30:27] That's one of the first questions. Thank you. That was one of the first questions I was going to ask, because obviously a traditional ICBM is actually coming in faster than than these things go. And we have developed some systems to try to at least target those and be able to shoot them down. But your concern, you say, with these.Sam Stone: [00:30:46] Is.Sam Stone: [00:30:48] There's almost no way to for our current defense systems, our ship point defense systems, our national defense systems to deal with this threat as it evolves at this time.Dr James Bosbotinis: [00:31:00] Defense against the latest hypersonic threats at present is very limited. The United States has said it has a nascent capability against, for example, hypersonic glide vehicles, with the Sm6 deployed on US Navy warships. And it's working to develop a glide phase interceptor, which will enter service later this decade, and that will be capable of intercepting the latest hypersonic threats that are being developed, as we have seen most recently in Ukraine. The Patriot Air defense. Air and missile defense system does offer a capability against the Russian kinzhal The Kinzhal is described as a hypersonic weapon system. And strictly speaking, it is. It travels faster than Mach five. But. It's a sort of entry level hypersonic system. It's an it's effectively an air launched ballistic missile. It's an air launched version of the Russian Iskander Ground launched tactical ballistic missile. So it it falls within the intercept capability of existing systems such as Patriot. The higher end systems glide vehicles such as the Chinese DF 17 or a hypersonic cruise missile. They are much more taxing.Chuck Warren: [00:32:30] Why should Americans, our brothers and sisters, the United Kingdom, freedom loving countries be concerned about Russia and China having hypersonic missiles? Explain to them what is the danger of them in practical terms.Dr James Bosbotinis: [00:32:46] A hypersonic weapons by virtue of their speed, their flight paths, their unpredictable trajectories and maneuverability, make detecting, tracking and engaging them very difficult. So they are particularly well suited to striking very high value targets. It's why the United States, for example, is working to develop its own hypersonic weapons capability. If you want to hit something that is extremely high value, such as an aircraft carrier or a deeply buried, hardened command facility, a hypersonic weapon provides. That effective means of penetrating an adversary's own missile defenses and striking it. Are not a panacea. They're not going to be silver bullets. They form part of a wider strike complex, but because of those particular characteristics, they pose particular challenges. And that is why they are eliciting so much concern in terms of potential adversaries deploying them.Chuck Warren: [00:34:02] The United States obviously omits and shows its power around the world through our aircraft carriers. There are amazing vessels. They show amazing presence. Why would a hypersonic missile mean to our aircraft carrier presence throughout the world? Let's say Russia or Iran have one. What does that mean?Dr James Bosbotinis: [00:34:24] It provides a potent means of targeting the carrier. But a carrier is inherently an extremely difficult target to prosecute. It's mobile. A US carrier will be moving hundreds of miles a day. The maritime environment is inherently dynamic, and to find, fix, track and target a carrier is difficult. You need a very robust supporting kill chain or intelligence surveillance reconnaissance systems that can locate the carrier, keep track of it and help cue long range strike systems onto it. And those systems can be targeted kinetically so reconnaissance aircraft can be shot down. They can be targeted for electronic warfare and cyber means. So the system can be disrupted in a in a variety of means. But. Assuming that it's still functioning, the adversary can launch a hypersonic missile, which because it travels so much quicker than a long range than other subsonic long range strike systems, the time a subsonic cruise missile would take to travel, say, 600 miles in an hour. A hypersonic missile can do in, say, ten minutes. So because it's compressing the time that it takes to travel to the target, it means that the carrier and its strike group have a much shorter window in which to detect, track and engage the incoming threat. So that is why hypersonic weapons are seen as posing such a challenge to time critical targets such such as an aircraft carrier.Chuck Warren: [00:36:07] You need people who think on their feet.Sam Stone: [00:36:09] Yeah. One of one of your recent articles on that same point, it's not just compressing the time that a carrier or carrier group has to deal with an incoming threat, But the potential for these missiles to be used in both conventional and nuclear configurations means that for political decision makers, these may compress the time in ways that really, really restrict their ability to react to a situation intelligently. Right.Dr James Bosbotinis: [00:36:39] Yes, there's always the problem with dual capable systems, that is weapon systems which are both nuclear and conventional, that when one is traveling towards you, you don't know whether it is a nuclear weapon on its way or a conventional weapon. And that poses all sorts of challenges in terms of escalation control. Uh, for example, the Chinese DF 26 intermediate range ballistic missile is both conventional and nuclear. And if one is launched in the event of hostilities at Guam, uh, there is no way of telling until it detonates what warhead it it is carrying. So with any dual capable long range strike system that discern that, discerning whether it is nuclear or conventional is a particular problem. And, uh, certainly hypersonic missiles would be would be no different. And, uh. The Russian Kinzhal system, which is being employed against Ukraine, is a dual capable system. And. It's likely that other hypersonic weapon systems will also be dual capable.Chuck Warren: [00:37:56] With Dr. James Bosbotinis, he is a United Kingdom based specialist in Defence and International Affairs. He is co CEO of JB Associates, a geopolitical risk advisory. What have we learned about Russia's military capabilities in Ukraine?Dr James Bosbotinis: [00:38:13] We have learnt that pre-war assessments governing how Russian military modernisation efforts have proceeded over the past decade or so were. Overoptimistic, shall we say, the rush, the deep, deep structural flaws in the Russian military, which are reflective of the wider Russian state, have not been addressed. The Russian. The Russian military. Has. Made fundamental errors. For example. In the employment of the ballistic and cruise missile forces. They spent 20 plus years developing a doctrine of how to employ these. And when war broke out, they didn't actually use them as they had written about how they would use them, which was extremely fortunate for Ukraine. The Russians haven't conducted large scale combined arms training. Their air force does not train to anywhere near the level of Western air forces. They haven't developed the joint command structures, all various issues. Their logistics system is, as we have seen.Sam Stone: [00:39:39] When I was about 11 years old, I had a chance to visit still the Soviet Union, and we were there with a group of writers who were it was the start of glasnost. They were talking about some of the environmental damage. We came back. Everyone was plowed drunk one night from a Georgian restaurant in Moscow. One of the big writers in front of us was trying to open his door to his hotel room. He fell into the door, the door frame and all fell into the room, splintered apart. He rolls over, laughing. He looks back at us and says, And you were afraid of our missiles. I think that in certain sense still describes the nature of Soviet manufacturing and weapons propaganda.Dr James Bosbotinis: [00:40:14] Yes, a lot of Russian weapons systems are not anywhere near to the same standard of equivalent Western missile systems or other weapon systems. On the other hand, they're the they're long range strike systems. They're iskandar's. They're cruise missiles, for example. They have worked uh, it's a question more of the human element in how in how the weapons are employed rather than the actual effect themselves. When a when an Iskander hits a target, it is detonating and it is causing damage and their cruise missiles have proved devastating. But the Russians, instead of launching these weapons at critical national infrastructure targets at the start of the war. Air defense systems, command and control facilities, they used them against civilian targets and firing, for the most part, firing a ballistic missile or a cruise missile against a civilian apartment block is apart from being an absolute war crime, it's also a complete waste of a weapon system. So they didn't actually employ their systems, right? Had they employed them differently, we could have seen a very different. Progression of the conflict.Sam Stone: [00:41:35] Do you think that's partially because they were trying to simply get the Ukrainian people to force a capitulation at that point? Or because that seems like the only reason you do that instead of targeting military assets.Dr James Bosbotinis: [00:41:50] Yes, indeed. The operational planning was guided by completely false assumptions. The Russian government, the Russian government thought that a Ukrainian resistance would collapse after about three days and the Ukrainian people would simply greet the Russians with open with open arms. And so perhaps they thought that there's no need to conduct air strikes against infrastructure targets. Yeah. Dr..Sam Stone: [00:42:20] Dr. James Bosbotinis is a UK based specialist in defense and international affairs, particularly focus on maritime and Air Force development. Dr. How do folks follow you and your work?Dr James Bosbotinis: [00:42:29] I'm on Twitter, I'm on LinkedIn. I write on a freelance basis for a variety of publications.Sam Stone: [00:42:36] We appreciate you having having you on the program here today. I want to bring you back on again in the future. Thank you so much. We're running out of time here in the program, Dr.. But I very much appreciate your time this morning. Well, welcome to the podcast. Only segment of breaking battlegrounds. Want to say thank you to both of our guests today, Congressman Dusty Johnson and Dr. James Bosbotinis. Good discussions there from both of them, Chuck. But there's obviously some really big news kind of stirring the country right now. Broke last night with the indictment of Donald Trump on a number of charges, which are frankly hard to deny that that he did do those things. And it's hard, hard to say he didn't commit a crime, on the other hand. The prosecution. I have a real issue with the prosecution of Donald Trump. When you're not prosecuting Hillary Clinton, when you're not prosecuting everyone else who's taken the documents, it's this way.Chuck Warren: [00:43:40] It's again, a double standard. And that's the problem with it. You know what? I understand and this could be wrong, is he was contacted by our archives and he delivered in January 20th, 22, 15 boxes of documents that they said should not have been taken from the White House. So he gave those back. And then through tips or something, I don't know. It's a little unclear. He supposedly had more documents and that's hence we end up getting a raid in August. So the question is, you know, what they're saying is different versus other people is that when he was approached about it or confronted however you want to term it, he sort of dug his heels on some documents. Now, again, you and I have discussed this. I have always believed that there was such chaos in that White House in the last days that who knows what's packing those boxes, right? Well, yeah. I mean I mean, who knows? I mean, stuff gets thrown in boxes all the time. I mean, they're talking about finding pictures within there and Newsweek and and magazines. So it tells me this wasn't a really well conceived conspiracy to take documents. So the question is, I think.Sam Stone: [00:44:52] They were just throwing everything in the offices in boxes and moving.Chuck Warren: [00:44:55] Out the door. And I think and I think they're going fast because they were disputing 2020. So I think that was their focus plus running the country. And then I think, oh my goodness, it's Sunday and we got to leave Tuesday or whatever. And but I.Sam Stone: [00:45:07] Also don't think that's terribly different than what ends up getting taken out of there by every previous president. Yeah.Chuck Warren: [00:45:13] And and that's what I just don't know. I really wish they would tell us what these documents supposedly are that are endangering national security.Sam Stone: [00:45:19] I mean, my problem with that is claiming it's endangering national security at all, because at the end of the day, Donald Trump is not some foreign asset or weapon that whole narrative has been garbage. If anything, he kept these things for ego. You know, I mean, it's as many presidents do, have a giant ego and they want to be able to, you know, show people after their career this letter they got from the president of France or whatever.Chuck Warren: [00:45:46] Well, there's going to be so much more to come. Again, it does show why Hillary Clinton is not biased, why DOJ is protecting Hunter Biden. These are concerning matters. And if you're going to apply the rule of law, I want it to be applied. Even Steven, I don't want you to be picking who you decide should be prosecuted and who should not. And right now, I think this is the problem for DOJ. Now, I think it's really funny. Look, if you prosecuted.Sam Stone: [00:46:17] Clinton, I would have no problem with them.Chuck Warren: [00:46:19] Prosecuting. I think I think a real funny thing is here's the Biden administration saying we didn't know anything about it till we saw the indictment come through. Oh, come on. Just just I mean, just it's just better say I don't know. It's just such a lie. And the thing is, it puts when they do that.Sam Stone: [00:46:32] Well, they can't be honest because they're using the DOJ to target their political adversary.Chuck Warren: [00:46:36] So if you are a Trump supporter or are you inclined to believe the government is doing rotten things, making a statement like that, people like, come on, of course you know about this, right? And so it will be interesting. You know, we still have the investigation of January 6th. We still have the Georgia investigation, which I'd be surprised if indictments don't come out of that. I mean.Sam Stone: [00:47:01] They're going to.Chuck Warren: [00:47:02] It's a big it's a becoming. Is it becoming just such white noise now that people are ignoring it? That's my.Sam Stone: [00:47:08] Question. It's white noise right up until the point where they actually convict him and lock him up. I mean, which they're really threatening, like lengthy prison sentences with some of this. Yeah. I mean, so we'll see how this plays out. But I got to say, I mean, yeah, I agree. He broke the law and there should not there should be consequences when you break the law. But on the other hand, if the consequences apply only to one side, then you don't have a law.Chuck Warren: [00:47:31] You just. Well, that's.Chuck Warren: [00:47:32] Well, that's that's not rule of law. Yeah. And that's the problem with it. So, you know, it's got to be clearly implemented for everybody or not at all. And that's what apparently that's not what we're even at. We're just like we're going to depending who the political party opponent is, we're prosecuting.Sam Stone: [00:47:48] So this is this is a really politicized federal law enforcement and DOJ right now. And it's really damaging to.Chuck Warren: [00:47:54] It really needs to be cleaned up. It would be I would truly be interested in Congress passing something about some sort of lack of a better term term limits in the DOJ.Sam Stone: [00:48:07] Yeah, absolutely.Chuck Warren: [00:48:09] Something has to be done. It's too entrenched with bureaucratic attorneys.Sam Stone: [00:48:12] Well, you know what I was thinking about the other night and I didn't realize it at the time, but I remember some of these articles from the time period Clinton towards the end of his term, and then Obama went big with this. They didn't place people leaving their administration in your typical political appointee positions. They got them jobs inside the bureaucracy in all these agencies. And now we're seeing the the fruit of having ceded all the federal agencies with political Democrat political activists rather than people who were there to actually do the job. They are infiltrated in every bureaucracy from the mid levels up. Right. And that's a hard thing to dis entrench.Chuck Warren: [00:48:54] Exactly. Exactly.Sam Stone: [00:48:56] You're talking about trenches switching topics here, Chuck, But there was a big announcement recently by the governor of Arizona about our water situation here, where they project a 4% deficit in water over the next hundred years.Chuck Warren: [00:49:11] How much was.Sam Stone: [00:49:11] It? 4% over 100 years. So we're not talking end of the world stuff. But the way they did the press conference, it certainly made it sound that way. And they made a big announcement about we're going to stop new construction in Arizona. Now, what they meant was new construction outside of areas served by water grids. Right. If you're on the Phoenix Water or Tucson Water, Flagstaff, water, whatever, that wasn't what they were talking about. But the way they present it, I really believe the environmentalist movement is pushing for planet wide population reduction. They don't want any new growth. They don't want any of this stuff. And this governor fell in this trap. And all week long I've been dealing with businesses from across the country going, hey, we were considering Arizona. We don't think that's viable. Now, if what your governor just said, they botched this thing from top to bottom. Katie Hobbs is utterly incompetent when it comes to handling the routine business of government, because you could have put this out in a press release with nothing else, instituted the exact same policy. We're not going to allow growth in these wildcat areas where you don't have water. That's that is smart policy. Right. But the implementation of it and how she went about it. So Ham handed that it's literally hurt the state of Arizona and that ties to what we're talking with Congressman Johnson. Look, the solution to all of this. The entire US Southwest needs water enhancements. We need new water, whether from the Snake River to the north, the Mississippi, Missouri's to the east or from the Gulf of Mexico, You.Chuck Warren: [00:50:44] Know, And the.Chuck Warren: [00:50:45] Technology is there to.Sam Stone: [00:50:45] Do it. Yeah, it is. But the problem.Chuck Warren: [00:50:47] Is you're gonna have a bunch of environmentalists sue, which you're going to delay at 10 to 20 years. And this is literally issues you can resolve in two years.Sam Stone: [00:50:54] It absolutely is. And that's the other point we brought. I brought this up with one of the other congressmen we've had on the program. But I don't understand why we don't just declare if something is environmentally beneficial and taking the southwest off of groundwater and off of river water would be massively environmentally beneficial. Augmenting our river water, taking us off of groundwater would help the environment here tremendously, period. No question. In that case, why? Why are these why are they allowed to sue on Nepa or any of this other stuff? The project should go forward. You just do the engineering reviews and you're done.Chuck Warren: [00:51:31] Well, it should be like something. Eminent domain. Yeah, that's.Sam Stone: [00:51:33] What I mean.Chuck Warren: [00:51:34] Come on in. And just this needs to be done and it's just ridiculous.Sam Stone: [00:51:37] Like in this case, Look, all your lawsuits. No, you know, we don't even entertain those things in this type of situation because it is an issue of national security and safety for our citizens here in the southwest and to have an assured water supply.Chuck Warren: [00:51:49] And it helps the environment.Sam Stone: [00:51:51] And it helps the environment.Chuck Warren: [00:51:52] Yeah. What do you say? You support helping the environment, but you're fighting something that can absolutely help the environment, right?Sam Stone: [00:51:59] That that is the ridiculousness of the modern environmental movement, which to me is frankly just a eugenicist movement in hiding.Chuck Warren: [00:52:07] Let's finish one last topic here. The Tampa Bay Rays are a third through the season and they are almost 30 games above 500.Sam Stone: [00:52:16] Chuck, I'm a Red Sox fan and this is the podcast segment, so I can say what I really feeling right now, which is f**k you, man. Seriously, they are. No, they're amazing.Chuck Warren: [00:52:25] They're amazing. They are an amazing organization.Sam Stone: [00:52:28] What they do with no money, I mean, no money.Chuck Warren: [00:52:32] And you sort of get the sense the Diamondbacks have taken a page from them, what they've building up on their farm system.Sam Stone: [00:52:36] I've said for years, if you if you watched and do what Tampa does, but just add a little money to the mix where you can keep some of your best players from time to time and you don't watch them go to the Padres. That's that's the that's the formula.Chuck Warren: [00:52:49] I agree.Chuck Warren: [00:52:49] I agree.Sam Stone: [00:52:50] Well, in which the Diamondbacks can go lock up Corbin Carroll right now.Chuck Warren: [00:52:55] Well, they have, haven't they.Sam Stone: [00:52:56] Did they? Yeah. Did I miss.Chuck Warren: [00:52:57] That? Was that the ten year deal?Chuck Warren: [00:52:59] I don't. Corbin Carroll? Yeah.Chuck Warren: [00:53:00] Corbin Carroll, ten years.Sam Stone: [00:53:01] We're looking at the girl in the studio who's getting married to a professional ballplayer. And she doesn't.Chuck Warren: [00:53:05] She knows.Chuck Warren: [00:53:05] Nothing. She knows nothing. Corbin She hasn't.Sam Stone: [00:53:08] Even given us an update on the Idaho murders.Chuck Warren: [00:53:10] I believe. I believe Corbin Carroll signed a ten year deal. That's what everybody's been going on about early. They just tied him in. So. Okay.Sam Stone: [00:53:15] Well, thank goodness for that. Yeah.Chuck Warren: [00:53:17] By the way, anything before we close off on the Idaho murders that we should be aware of?Kiley Kipper: [00:53:20] No, not too much. I think they had like a few 20 days ago or something like that. They had 60 days to determine if he was going to get the death penalty or not. And then Brian Kielburger has now come out and said that he doesn't want cameras in the courtroom. So now that's the whole hot discussion is like, well, then let's have them, because why does he not want why do we care what he says?Speaker4: [00:53:40] Chuck.Sam Stone: [00:53:41] You okay with the death penalty? In this case?Chuck Warren: [00:53:44] I'm always okay of the death penalty.Speaker4: [00:53:46] It's a rare.Chuck Warren: [00:53:47] Exception that I'm not okay with the death penalty.Sam Stone: [00:53:50] And that's the final.Sam Stone: [00:53:51] Word today from Chuck.Chuck Warren: [00:53:54] Maybe with those 9% shoplifters you wrote about.Sam Stone: [00:53:56] Oh, yeah. No, we can start with them for sure.Sam Stone: [00:53:59] Right?Sam Stone: [00:54:00] Retail theft off with his head.Chuck Warren: [00:54:03] Sam, closing here. How much does it cost the average American annually for shoplifting?Sam Stone: [00:54:07] Yeah. So go go on. Our substack folks, because we ran the numbers on this Capital One putting out a survey and then I broke the numbers down $318 per person.Chuck Warren: [00:54:17] That's probably.Chuck Warren: [00:54:17] Undercounted and.Sam Stone: [00:54:18] That's undercounted. If you read the article, you realize that's the direct cross from the losses that they're taking from shoplifting. Then you add in all the additional security, the other measures that they're putting in place. Those things all cost money, too. There's probably a lot, as we saw with Lululemon, that's not reported because of politics, essentially where they're fired, two employees for even just reporting a theft to the police. I doubt they're reporting their numbers accurately and probably there's a bunch like them. This might be a $5,600 per person a year tax is what we're facing.Chuck Warren: [00:54:53] Well, and folks, if you are purchasing from Lululemon, realize there is a shoplifting tax assessed on your clothing, whether whether they listed or itemized it or not, you're paying for.Sam Stone: [00:55:03] It before they go to Lululemon, though, Chuck, and this is a free plug. Isn't your former assistants, Katrina, doesn't she have a a clothing line or company that she.Chuck Warren: [00:55:12] Works with a clothing line in Salt Lake knowing the ownership, they will not tolerate shoplifting.Chuck Warren: [00:55:17] So okay.Sam Stone: [00:55:18] What's the name? Do we do you know? Do I know?Chuck Warren: [00:55:21] We'll tell We'll put.Chuck Warren: [00:55:22] It on our social.Sam Stone: [00:55:23] On our substack. Yeah. Hey, look. Good opportunity to pay pay for a product from someone who actually feels the way you do.Chuck Warren: [00:55:29] Exactly. Well, folks, we hope you have a great weekend. We hope you enjoyed our guests today, both wonderful people to have on the show and we hope you share it. You can download our podcast, go to breaking battlegrounds, dot vote, share it, rate it. We'd appreciate it. Help our audience grow. Have a great weekend. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit breakingbattlegrounds.substack.com

El gobierno iraní presentó su nuevo misil hipersónico «Fatah» (en la imagen, el «circo mediático de su presentación, incluida una miniatura de la mezquita de Al Aqsa) con un alcance de 1.400 km, capaz – según ellos – de penetrar sistemas antiaéreos e incluso en su propaganda han colocado fotografías con la inscripción en persa y hebreo que dice «Tel Aviv en 400 segundos». Según Irán, el misil (que se suma a otros que posee en su desarrollo balístico) tiene capacidad de maniobrabilidad y es de difícil detección por los sistemas de defensa. Sin embargo, según distintos analistas, esto es un poco de fanfarronería, ya que la capacidad de los misiles no es tan notable dado que son poco flexibles a la hora de cambiar su ruta la cual es más específica, a diferencia, por ejemplo, de los misiles de crucero o los planeadores hipersónicos, que pueden ser un poco más manipulados durante su trayecto.De igual manera, el tipo de misil no sorprende ante lo que ya existe en el mercado actual, como los Kinzhal rusos o los DF41 chinos; aún así, pueden ser peligrosos en la carrera armamentista desarrollada por Teherán y en especial a lo que se refiere el desarrollo nuclear, por lo que este crecimiento podría preocupar a diferentes países de la región, como es el caso de Israel. El analista Ofer Shaleh, por ejemplo, menciona que, a pesar de los esfuerzos, no se ha logrado bloquear efectivamente el desarrollo de Irán y más bien se ha fortalecido, debido a la ausencia de EE.UU. y al apoyo de otras potencias hegemónicas. Esto ha forzado a otros actores de la región a tener que buscar alternativas, como lo hecho Arabia Saudita, que a través de China, logró un acuerdo de restablecimiento de relaciones con Irán, a pesar del peligro que significa Teherán para la estabilidad regional por medio de sus objetivos militares, pero sobre todo hegemónicos, pero que a través de una acción militar no se puede contrarrestar sin llevar al mundo a una situación que no están dispuestos a vivir en estos momentos. Es fundamental un retorno estratégico del gobierno norteamericano complementado con una política efectiva para evitar más avances de Teherán en sus impulsos regionales. Israel, por su parte, implementa una combinación de diplomacia para acercarse a países árabes poderosos como los estados del Golfo y Marruecos, mientras que por el otro lado intenta fortalecer los vínculos con los países históricos con los que firmó la paz, casos de Egipto y Jordania, teniendo presente que debe resolver temas fundamentales: la situación con los palestinos es de las más importantes, así como también seguir siendo fuerte y efectivo en su política internacional, así como en el desarrollo militar, por cuanto Israel no se debe tomar a la ligera cuando amenazan su existencia o ponen en peligro su estabilidad.

Det tog ikke ukrainerne lang tid efter ibrugtagningen af amerikanskudviklede Patriot-luftforsvarsystemer, før de lykkedes med at nedskyde et enkelt af et af Ruslands angivelige supervåben, det hypersoniske Kinzhal-missil. Nogle få dage senere prøvede russerne at mætte et af Patriot-systemerne ved Kyiv med en byge af angribende missiler og droner for formentligt at få ram på netop dét. Alt blev skudt ned af ukrainerne, inkl. yderligere seks Kinzhal-missiler. Hvordan kan det være, at våben, som Rusland har blæret sig med vidt og bredt, bliver uskadeliggjort af et undseeligt våbensystem som Patriot? Det er tid for et realitetscheck. Og en videre snak om de teknologihistoriske og samfundsmæssige implikationer. ----Det er sjovt at lave podcast, men det tager også tid og koster penge. Det eneste vi beder om til gengæld – hvis du altså kan lide det, vi laver – er at du smider stjerner, og måske oven i købet en lille anbefaling, efter os på Apple Podcast. Det betyder alverden. Vi higer jo allesammen efter anerkendelse i en eller anden form. Husk at følge os på Twitter (@silberblom), på Mastodon (@silberblom@mstdn.social) og på Instagram (silberblom).Linktree

Ucrânia diz que abateu um dos mísseis mais poderosos do mundo. Russos dizem que é impossível. Professor e historiador Bruno Cardoso Reis defende que "não podemos acreditar 100% em nenhum dos lados".See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I sistemi di difesa statunitensi Patriot contro i missili ipersonici russi, gli ultimi raid di Mosca hanno dato il via alla battaglia per il controllo dei cieli ucraini.Iscriviti e segui "Notizie dallUcraina":YouTubeApple PodcastsSpotifyGoogle PodcastsAmazon PodcastAudibleadnkronos.com

Russia launched a volley of missiles into Ukraine overnight, and Ukraine was able to shoot down all the Kinzhals in the strike. Full Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/zeihan/ukraine-shoots-down-russian-missiles

*) Türkiye 2023 election goes to runoff Türkiye's 2023 presidential election has gone to a runoff after no candidate was able to clear the required 50 percent of the vote in the first round on May 14th. The country's incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won 49.51 percent of the vote, while his main opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu secured 44.88 percent. The run-off will be between Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu on May 28. *) Fresh Russian air attacks on Kiev Explosions have rocked Ukraine's Kiev as air defence systems repelled Russian air attacks on the capital and other places in the country. Ukraine downed an entire barrage of Russian drones and missiles, including six advanced Kinzhal missiles. The developments show Ukraine has bolstered its air defences after a winter of systemic strikes on key infrastructure. *) Tunisia sentences Saied's opponent A Tunisian court has sentenced Rached Ghannouchi, one of the main opponents of President Kais Saied, to a year in prison following his arrest last month. Ennahdha party leader Ghannouchi had appeared in court on terror-related charges at the end of February after being accused of calling police officers "tyrants". Human Rights Watch had called his arrest a move "to neutralise the country's largest political party". *) Teen kills multiple people in New Mexico An 18-year-old gunman has shot three people to death and wounded six others in a US town before he was fatally shot by police outside a church. Local police said they responded "to find a chaotic scene where a male subject was actively firing upon individuals" in a residential area. Two officers, who were struck in an exchange of gunfire with the suspect, were among those wounded in the shooting in northwest New Mexico. Three civilians were killed. *) 31 Abrams tanks The US Defence Department announced that 31 M1 Abrams training tanks have been sent to Germany a few weeks ahead of a US-led training program for Ukrainian forces. Expected to last several months, the training program is aimed at preparing Ukrainian tech crews to operate and maintain the tanks, which will be used to defend Ukraine against Russia.

Sono 81 i missili lanciati dai russi su 10 regioni, tra cui 6 missili ipersonici Kinzhal. Colpite anche le città di Kiev, Kherson, Kharkiv e Leopoli, 8 il bilancio provvisorio delle vittime.Iscriviti e segui "Notizie dallUcraina":YouTubeApple PodcastsSpotifyGoogle Podcastsadnkronos.com

Chernivtsi - Mentre scrivo suonano le sirene dell'allerta aerea intutto il Paese. Il sistema di difesa ha rilevato l'attività sospettadi alcuni MiG-31K probabilmente armati con missili iperso-nici Kinzhal. Mentre il criminale Putin testa sui civili ucrainigli effetti della versione convenzionale della “Bomba Zar” (il più potente ordigno mai speri-mentato), tornano alla mia memoria i racconti dialcuni dei sopravvissuti a quegli attacchi.

Today's update features:Russia struggles to form new military unitsMud season and winter is comingUkraine learns a hard lesson in Lysychansk Global tension is high as nuclear accident danger rises at Zaporizhzhia NPP Russia restarts attacks on the Luhansk administrative borderThe progress of Russian proxy forces near Bakhmut has slowedUkraine stabilizes the situation west of DonetskUkraine strikes warehouses, barracks, and bridges deep in Russian-controlled territoryRussian VDV enters the fight north of KhersonUkraine widens the Inhulets River bridgehead, a little Has Ukraine launched a counteroffensive south of IzyumRussia uses Kinzhal hypersonic missiles on Ukrainian air basesRussia launches a heavy cross-border attack on Seredyna-Buda in Sumy16 Russian generals have been KIA or fired since February 24Did the United States transfer AGM-88 missiles to UkraineAmnesty International says, "we're sorry"The destruction of the Svyato-Iverskoho Zhinochyy Monastery Another 161,000 tonnes of corn, sunflower oil, and meal leaves OdesaPatreons get more! You can access our daily Situation Report for as little as $5 a month, providing additional insights, backlinks, references, maps, and videos. Become a Patreon today!You can use our other resources to track the Russia-Ukraine WarRussia-Ukraine War News CenterRussia Ukraine War Map - updated multiple times a dayFollow Malcontent News in the Google News AppMalcontent News on TikTokReal-time updates on TwitterSupport the show

Entre las armas más avanzadas de los arsenales de las superpotencias se encuentran los misiles hipersónicos. Pueden viajar a más de cinco veces la velocidad del sonido (Mach 5), alcanzar objetivos a miles de kilómetros de distancia volar a baja altura y cambiar de dirección para eludir los sistemas de defensa. Como explica José Manuel Sanjurjo, vicealmirante retirado y miembro de la Real Academia de Ingeniería, no solo la maniobrabilidad es un desafío para el desarrollo de estas armas. A velocidades superiores a 6.000 km/h la fricción con la atmósfera genera temperaturas muy elevadas en la superficie de los miles, superior a los 2.000º C. Se necesitan materiales resistentes, soluciones para disipar el calor y métodos que garanticen el funcionamiento de la electrónica a bordo y las comunicaciones (GPS, etc). Estas armas pueden ser de dos tipos: planeadores y misiles cruceros hipersónicos, cada uno con sus características. En agosto de 2021, China probó uno que se quedó cerca de completar una vuelta completa a la Tierra. Rusia cuenta con los modelos Kinzhal, Zirkon y Avangard. Y EEUU ha presentado su misil HAWC. Estos misiles --explica Sanjurjo-- pueden cargar cabezas convencionales o nucleares. Según el caso, la precisión será más o menos importante. Escuchar audio

Durante este mes se ha viralizado en redes, compartiéndolo miles de veces, un video donde se muestra como cae un misil en territorio ucraniano y provoca una explosión rollo nuclear. En primer lugar, decirte que el video es completamente falso ya que es una creación de un artista digital. Después de una búsqueda intensa he podido encontrar el origen del video está en una cuenta de TikTok que se dedica a realizar videos con efectos especiales y en este caso hizo una recreación de qué pasaría si rusia empezará una guerra nuclear, este video fue publicado el 27 de febrero solo 3 días después de que empezara la guerra. El caso es que el video ya tiene más de 42 millones de reproducciones y casi un millón de likes, y a pesar de los comentarios del Autor aclarando que era un montaje, los usuarios han seguido compartiéndolo en Facebook lo que finalmente le ha dado una viralidad bastante importante. De todos modos, te informo que Rusia ya confirmó que estaba usando este tipo de misil en el conflicto con ucrania, de hecho, se usaron en marzo para destruir un arsenal ucraniano subterráneo al suroeste del país. Pero el video es completamente falso y ese tipo de explosión no corresponde a este misil. Como siempre un inocente montaje acaba convirtiéndose en una desinformación y en un bulo. «Cuando recibas algún mensaje sospechoso «Ante la duda, verifica por whatsapp 0034673784245 antes de compartir» www.Stop-Bulos.es».

O medo existe, é esse o objectivo da retórica do Kremlin, mas a União Europeia e a NATO não têm recuado nos seus propósitos. O bloqueio ferroviário a alguns produtos que seguem da Rússia para o seu exclave no Báltico é para manter e a Rússia tarda em mostrar qual será a sua resposta. A Lituânia diz que há ogivas nucleares em Kaliningrado, mas Moscovo só confirma a existência de mísseis Kinzhal, que podem atingir Berlim em menos de dois minutos, Paris ou Londres em menos de três. Neste episódio, conversamos com Daniel Pinéu, especialista em Relações Internacionais, professor e investigador na Universidade de Amesterdão, comentador da SIC. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hypersonic missiles were used for the first time in combat last month in Ukraine, as Russian jets launched Kinzhal missiles from jet fighters. Hypersonic missiles are fast, flying at speeds of Mach 5 or faster, and when combined with a flat trajectory compared to ballistic missiles and maneuverability, they present a difficult problem for defense. Hypersonic missiles are under development as long-range strategic weapons, but the most intense research is in air-launched standoff systems launched from conventional military aircraft. The Kinzhal system uses conventional rocket engines, but more advanced propulsion under development in China and the U.S. uses air breathing supersonic combustion ramjets to use air as the oxidizer, adding longer range compared to rocket systems. Heat is the primary technical challenge to “scramjet” development, but test systems with run times that could allow a 300-mile range have been demonstrated. Access all episodes of https://www.engineering.com/viewAll?category=this-week-in-engineering (This Week in Engineering) on engineering.com TV along with all of our other series.

Prosegue il percorso di adesione all'Europa da parte dell'Ucraina. “Oggi abbiamo compiuto un altro passo, molto importante e non solo formale, nel nostro cammino verso l'Unione europea” ha detto il presidente Zelensky sul suo canale Telegram.

The Russian Ministry of Defence recently announced that a Kinzhal missile was used during combat in Ukraine. Taken at face value the event could have been the first-ever use of a hypersonic weapon in combat. The use involved a strike against an underground target but it is unclear if the hypersonic nature of the missile played a role. Aditya Pareek joins Pranav Satyanath to discuss the Kinzhal strike and other precision munition use in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.Pranav R. Satyanath is an independent analyst. He works on issues related to anti-satellite weapons, missile defenses and other emerging technologies.Follow Aditya on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CabinMarineFollow Pranav on Twitter: https://twitter.com/duke_notnukemCheck out Takshashila's courses: https://school.takshashila.org.in/You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the new and improved IVM Podcast App on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/iosYou can check out our website at https://www.ivmpodcasts.com

#kinzhak #kinzhakrussia #tênlửasiêuthanhkinzhal Sức mạnh thực sự của tên lửa siêu thanh Kinzhal mà Nga sử dụng tại Ukraine Mới đây, Bộ Quốc phòng Nga công bố họ đã lần đầu tiên sử dụng tên lửa siêu thanh Kinzhal để phá huỷ một kho chứa vũ khí của quân Ukraine ở phía Tây nước này. Vậy vũ khí này là loại gì, có sức mạnh ra sao? Kinzhal cơ bản là một phiên bản được phóng từ trên không của tên lửa đạn đạo tầm ngắn Iskander-M. Nó được mang trên máy bay Mig-31 hoặc Tu-22M3 để tăng tầm bắn cho tên lửa. Trong thực tế, nó không thực sự là một “vũ khí siêu thanh” đúng nghĩa khi xét đến việc nó được chuyên chở bằng đường hàng không và giống như một tên lửa đạn đạo, nó bay với tốc độ siêu âm với hình thức bay bằng như những tên lửa hành trình. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tu-dien-lich-su/message

Daniel Pinéu, especialista em conflito internacional, explica que este míssil pode ultrapassar em "10 vezes a velocidade do som". Voa mais rápido e mais longe, sendo "praticamente impossível de deter" See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Como disse, em entrevista ao PÚBLICO, A.C. Grayling, um dos grandes nomes da filosofia britânica, Putin fará “qualquer coisa para não sofrer humilhações”. Por exemplo, usar armas até agora guardadas, como mísseis hipersónicos Kinzhal. A jornalista Mariana Marques Tiago explica como funcionam estes “punhais” [tradução do russo Kinzhal]. David Pontes traz-nos o som do dia.

Soon you may relish your favorite biryani, momos or coffee within ten minutes of ordering them. Zomato on Monday promised to deliver food in the tight time frame even before it loses its steam, arguably becoming the first company in the world to do so. Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal feared that 30-minute food delivery time was too slow. And, if they do not make it obsolete, someone else will. So, what does it mean for the food delivery ecosystem? Is there a demand for quick food delivery? It's not just the food delivery segment. The winds of change are blowing through the IT sector too. Tech companies are increasingly venturing into smaller cities in search of talents. And they are finding many. Not just that, these IT majors are also setting up offices in cities like Coimbatore, Bhubaneswar, Lucknow and Jaipur.  Meanwhile, IT stocks helped benchmark indices rebound into positive zone yesterday. But, how will the markets behave over the next few days against the backdrop of the rise in fuel prices? How analysts are interpreting the recent moves and what they think about inflation and its impact on market sentiment? After the markets, let us move on to the Russia-Ukraine war which entered 28th day today.  On 19th of March, Russia is said to have used hypersonic missiles, called Kinzhal, or Dagger in English, to destroy a weapons depot in Ukraine's western region. According to media reports, this was the first recorded use of such missiles in this war. So, what are hypersonic missiles? Take a peek into this nuclear-capable weapons system in this episode of the podcast. Watch video

The term ‘hypersonic' denotes speed that's five times faster than sound. The speed of sound is around 760 miles per hour at sea level. This means, hypersonic weapons can travel at speeds of at least 3,800 miles per hour. However, ballistic missiles also travel at hypersonic speeds, especially in the re-entry phase. So, what sets apart new-age hypersonic weapons from the missiles of the past? According to US Congressional Research Service, hypersonic weapons don't follow a predetermined, arched trajectory like ballistic missiles usually do. Furthermore, they can maneuver on the way to their target.   In effect, you get a very fast, low-flying, and highly manoeuvrable missile that could prove to be too quick and agile for existing missile defence systems to react. New-age hypersonic weapons fall in two broad categories. These are cruise missiles and glide vehicles. Glide vehicles are launched from a ballistic missile. Once they reach the required distance and speed, they glide to their target at hypersonic speeds. Hypersonic cruise missiles might employ scramjet engines that enable them to cruise at a steady altitude and with sustained speeds. Now, let's come to the missile that was recently used by Russia.    According to US think-tank Centre for Strategic and International Studies, the Kinzhal is an air-launched ballistic missile. It is nuclear-capable. And, it travels at 10 times the speed of sound. It is understood to be capable of overcoming many existing air-defence systems. The missile has a range of approximately 1,500-2,000 kms.   Note that this weapon is neither a glide vehicle nor a cruise missile. Therefore, it might be somewhat misleading to put it in the same category as the new-age, advanced hypersonic weapons that are being developed by the major powers. The US, China and Russia possess the most advanced hypersonic weapons programmes. However, Australia, India, Germany, France and Japan are also developing hypersonic weapons.   So, where does India stand? India is close to fielding the BrahMos-II which is a hypersonic cruise missile under development in collaboration with Russia.   As a part of its Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle programme, India is also developing an indigenous hypersonic cruise missile. In fact, India had successfully tested a Mach 6 scramjet in June 2019 and September 2020.  

On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, the battle for Ukraine's cities is thundering through the suburbs, with the Ukranian military blocking Russian forces from a key highway and the invaders increasing air raids that have caused uncounted deaths and destruction. The U.N said that more than 3.5 million people have filed Ukraine since the invasion. The Russian military days it will continue using state-of-the-art hypersonic Kinzhal missiles to hit key targets. Meanwhile, Germany's parliament has paid tribute to Boris Romanchenko, who survived several Nazi concentration camps during World War II, but was killed last week during an attack in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. He was 96.

#美中外交 由於烏克蘭情勢依然陷入膠著，暫時沒有停戰的跡象，美國擔心中國因與俄羅斯的良好關係進而出手援助俄國，因此美國加強對中國的外交，才有了3/18拜登要求與習近平的視訊峰會… #俄烏情勢 3/19俄軍動用了極音速飛彈「匕首」(Kinzhal)摧毀了烏克蘭西部市郊的軍火庫。普丁將極音速飛彈視為完美武器，這樣新武器的展現，其實也是在向西方提出警告，使得俄烏情勢再度升高…此外，俄羅斯對基輔久攻不下，進而轉往攻打東部港城馬利波(Mariupol)… #日本外交 3/19日本首相岸田文雄訪問印度，參加了第十四屆印日峰會，會中談及安全合作、供應鏈，以及中國在印太的影響力等；岸田文雄相當重視印度，印度也皆受了日本260億美元基礎建設的援助，日本人在印度的投資也有約360億美元之多…然而，印度卻是印太聯盟四國中，唯一沒有公開譴責俄羅斯對烏克蘭發動攻擊的國家… Himalaya：www.himalaya.com/drliu 劉必榮教授和風談判學院：negotiation.eletang.com.tw

Nei piani del leader del Cremlino, doveva essere un'invasione rapida e facile. E invece l'utilizzo da parte degli ucraini dei missili Javelin si è finora rivelato decisivo nel rallentare l'avanzata dell'esercito russo. Che però ha spaventato tutti con il razzo ipersonico Kinzhal. Ma soprattutto lo zar non ha escluso il ricorso all'arma nucleare, violando un tabù che nemmeno nei giorni più bui della guerra fredda era sembrato a rischio, come spiegano Guido Olimpio e Andrea Marinelli. A seguire il punto di Barbara Stefanelli sulle ultime 24 ore di combattimenti e trattative diplomatiche.Per altri approfondimenti:- Le armi in campo in Ucraina: i Javelin di Kiev possono battere tank e caccia russi? https://bit.ly/3IwG4xS- Che cos'è il missile ipersonico Kinzhal che la Russia dice di avere usato in Ucraina https://bit.ly/3tnQ2NT- C'è il rischio che Putin usi la bomba nucleare? https://bit.ly/3NcXG5r

European bourses have been erring higher after a contained open, Euro Stoxx 50 +0.9%, with upside occurring as crude and bonds slipped further.US futures are in-fitting directionally but magnitudes more contained, a slew of speakers ahead.Crude benchmarks are pressured, but off lows, amid China COVID and EU energy price cap updates.DXY remains underpinned after an initial pullback from 99.00, while JPY lags with USD/JPY testing 121.00.Core debt continues to reel with yields steeper post-Powell and as corporate issuance factors once more.Looking ahead, highlights include NBH Policy Announcement, Speeches from Fed's Williams, Daly & Mester, ECB's Lagarde, Lane & Panetta.As of 10:30GMT/06:30EDTLOOKING AHEADNBH Policy Announcement, Speeches from Fed's Williams, Daly & Mester, ECB's Lagarde, Lane & Panetta.Note; US Clocks Changed to EDT from EST on Sunday, March 13th. London to New York time gap is four-hours until the UK change on March 27th.Click here for the Week Ahead preview.GEOPOLITICSRUSSIA-UKRAINEDISCUSSIONS/NEGOTIATIONSUkrainian President Zelenskiy said a meeting with Russian President Putin is vital to determine Russia's position on ending the war, according to Interfax. President Zelensky also said that he's prepared to discuss a commitment from Ukraine not to seek NATO membership in exchange for a ceasefire, withdrawal of Russian troops and a guarantee of Ukraine's security, according to AP.UN General Assembly's special session on Ukraine will resume on Wednesday after a relevant request, according to Sputnik.Adviser to the Ukrainian President says there are many contentious issues with the Russians, most notably the integrity of our territory and security guarantees, according to Al Jazeera.Russian Deputy Foreign Minister says the Ukrainian side has no desire to take our demands into account, via AJA Breaking.ENERGY/ECONOMIC UPDATESFrench Foreign Minister Le Drian and US Secretary of State Blinken agreed to continue strengthening sanctions against Russia and on the need to enhance the security of Ukraine's nuclear facilities.Russia's coupon payment on sovereign bonds maturing in 2029 was processed by JPMorgan which worked with the US Treasury Department on necessary approvals, according to Reuters sources.Russian Finance Ministry has channelled USD 65.63mln for the coupon payout on 2029 Eurobond to Russia's national settlement depository, fully met liabilities.S&P said it will withdraw ratings on all Russian entities.Eurasia Groups Rahman understands that work on a SURE-style instrument, for the Russian war in Ukraine, has been put on hold, as EU Commission President von der Leyen was "spooked" by Germany's opposition to common borrowing.DEFENCE/MILITARYUS President Biden said Ukraine is fighting valiantly and using equipment from the US, while he added Russian President Putin's back is against the wall and he is talking about new false flags such as biological weapons. President Biden also suggested this is a clear sign that President Putin is considering both biological and chemical weapons, while he added that Russia may be planning a cyber attack against the US.UK Ministry of Defence said Russia claimed it fired a number of hypersonic missiles against Ukrainian targets and that its claims of using the developmental Kinzhal are highly likely intended to detract from lack of progress on the ground campaign.Ukrainian forces announced the recapture of the Makarev area west of Kyiv, according to Sky News Arabia.EUROPEAN TRADEEQUITIESEuropean bourses have been erring higher after a contained open, Euro Stoxx 50 +0.9%, with upside occurring as crude and bonds slipped further.US futures are in-fitting directionally but magnitudes more contained, ES +0.2%, with a slew of Central Bank speakers ahead.Sectors features defensive names as the current underperformers while Consumer Products is bolstered post-Nike earnings.China is to hold a press conference on Tuesday night regarding the latest updates of the crashed China Eastern Jet, according to State Media.EU leaders could endorse taxing windfall profits of energy firms, according to a draft summit statement.China's securities regulator asked some US listed Chinese firms, including Alibaba (BABA), Baidu (BIDU), and JD.com (JD), to prepare for more audit disclosures and asked to prepare audit documents for FY21, according to Reuters sources.Click here for more detail.FXDollar extends gains as Fed chair Powell delivers hawkish speech at NABE, underlining 50bps hikes at one or more meetings, a potentially higher terminal rate and QT kicking off in May perhaps/DXY gets to within a whisker of 99.000 before waning.Yen extends slump as BoJ Governor Kuroda says any exit from ultra accommodation would be premature, USD/JPY now testing 121.00 after breaching a key Fib just over 119.50 and 120.00 with little resistance.Kiwi and Aussie bounce as risk appetite picks up, former back above 0.6900 and latter on the 0.7400 handle again. Loonie lags as oil prices retreat, USD/CAD over 1.2600.Pound and Euro derive some traction from corrective gains in Gilt and EGB yields; Cable close to 1.3200 and EUR/USD tests 1.1000 where 1.35bln option expiries start and end at 1.1010.Click here for more detail.Notable FX Expiries, NY Cut:EUR/USD: 1.0870 (301M), 1.0990 (345M), 1.1000-10 (1.35BN), 1.1050-55 (821M), 1.1075-80 (757M), 1.1100 (300M), 1.1135-40 (665M), 1.1150 (572M), 1.1175 (345M)Click here for more detail.FIXED INCOMEBear-steepening in US Treasuries continues after even more hawkish-leaning guidance from Fed chair Powell.EGBs and Gilts play catch-up, with Bunds testing 50bps in yield and 159.00 in futures.UK debt awaiting inflation data and Spring Budget before flash PMIs and retail sales round out busy week.Click here for more detail.COMMODITIESWTI and Brent are pressured, but off lows, as the benchmarks are hit amid China's COVID updates and reports of further support in the EU for an energy price cap.WTI and Brent May contracts have slipped from intraday highs of USD 113.30/bbl and USD 119.48/bbl to current lows of USD 107.10/bbl and USD 112.64/bbl, respectively.France and "several eastern EU countries" reportedly back the idea of energy price caps with Germany and the Netherlands left to be convinced, according to Journalist Keating; Germany/Netherlands argue that refusing to pay market price could mean suppliers go elsewhere.Subsequently, a Senior German official says that Berlin's opposition to energy sanctions is “unlikely to change” unless Russia uses “chemical or nuclear weapons”, according to Eurasia Group's Rahman. Adds, "One idea would see a “coalition of the willing” - member states with less Russian energy dependency, move first" - Note, it is unclear if this is the journalists' view or an official.Japanese government says power supply is tightening in the Tohoku region amid low temperatures.Spot gold/silver are pressured, though off lows, amid what appears to be a outflow from "havens" with core-debt and JPY pressured.LME CEO says price limits should prevent a repeat of the squeeze seen in Nickel, via Bloomberg. At the open, LME Nickel -12%, at USD 27,600/T.One global aluminium producer is seeking USD 195/t premiums in discussions with Japan, which would be up 10% from the current quarter, according to Reuters sources.China is to strictly control coal consumption in steel, chemical and cement industries in 2021-25.Click here for more detail.NOTABLE EUROPEAN HEADLINESECB's Villeroy says the ECB must not overreact to energy price volatility, should focus on underlying and medium-term prices. Green transition could result in some inflation pressure.NOTABLE US HEADLINESGoldman Sachs now expects the Fed to hike by 50bps at the May and June meetings, as well as announce the start of the balance sheet reduction in May, while it also sees four 25bps hikes in H2 but added that the Ukraine war and tight financial conditions are risks to the rate call.UK and the US to announce deal on Trump-era steel tariffs tonight, according to Politico's Casalicchio.Click here for the US Early Morning NoteCRYPTOBitcoin is bid, but off highs, having surpassed last week's peak of USD 42,392 in a short-lived foray above the USD 43k mark.APAC TRADEEQUITIESAPAC stocks were mostly positive with the region shrugging off the higher yields and oil advances.ASX 200 was led higher by strength in the commodity-related sectors including energy after further gains in oil.Nikkei 225 gained as exporters benefitted from a weaker currency and amid stimulus speculation.Hang Seng and Shanghai Comp. traded higher with outperformance among the blue-chip tech stocks including Alibaba after it boosted its share buyback to USD 25bln from USD 15bln and with oil majors underpinned.NOTABLE APAC HEADLINESPBoC injected CNY 20bln via 7-day reverse repos with the rate at 2.10% for a CNY 10bln net injection.PBoC set USD/CNY mid-point at 6.3664 vs exp. 6.3635 (prev. 6.3677)Japan was reported to be eyeing additional stimulus valued over JPY 10tln, according to Sankei, although Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno later stated they are not thinking about an economic stimulus package now. Subsequently, Japan's annual budget passed parliament; a move which should allow some discussion around additional stimulus to commence.Chinese Foreign Minister says, re. US visa restrictions on Chinese officials, that the US should immediately revoke sanctions, or China will response with reciprocal counter measures.China's COVID epidemiologist Wannian says that China's COVID curbs should be targeted and effective, sees rising COVID pressure from surrounding nations, such as Hong KongDATA RECAPNew Zealand Westpac Consumer Confidence (Q1) 91.2 (Prev. 99.1)

APAC stocks were mostly positive following a predominantly soft close in the US; Nasdaq 100 -0.3%.Fed Chair Powell said if the FOMC needs to raise the Fed Funds Rate by more than 25bps at a meeting or meetings, they will do so.Ukrainian President Zelenskiy said he's prepared to discuss a commitment from Ukraine not to seek NATO membership in exchange for a ceasefire.European equity futures are indicative of a slightly softer open with the Euro Stoxx 50 future down 0.3% after the cash market closed lower by 0.5% yesterday.DXY is firmer post-Powell with the US 10yr yield north of 2.3%; USD/JPY breached 120.00.Looking ahead, highlights include NBH Policy Announcement, Speeches from Fed's Williams, Daly & Mester, ECB's Lagarde, Lane, de Guindos & Panetta, Supply from Germany.US TRADEUS stocks finished mainly negative albeit off lows with sentiment pressured as yields spiked higher amid rising oil prices and hawkish Fed rhetoric, while Russia also downplayed progress in peace talks.S&P 500 Unch. at 4,461, Nasdaq 100 -0.3% at 14,376, DJIA -0.6% at 34,553, Russell 2000 -0.9% at 2,065.NOTABLE US HEADLINESFed Chair Powell said if they need to raise the Fed Funds Rate by more than 25bps at a meeting or meetings, they will do so, and that the balance sheet reduction could come as soon as May but no decision has been made. Powell also stated if they determine that they need to tighten beyond common measures of neutral and into a more restrictive stance, they will do that as well, while he added that risk is rising that an extended period of high inflation could push longer-term expectations uncomfortably higher and the Fed needs to move expeditiously to combat that. Furthermore, Powell said he does not have a test for what would trigger a 50bps hike and reiterated they will move quicker if needed.Goldman Sachs now expects the Fed to hike by 50bps at the May and June meetings, as well as announce the start of the balance sheet reduction in May, while it also sees four 25bps hikes in H2 but added that the Ukraine war and tight financial conditions are risks to the rate call.GEOPOLITICSRUSSIA-UKRAINENEGOTIATIONS/TALKSUkrainian President Zelenskiy said a meeting with Russian President Putin is vital to determine Russia's position on ending the war, according to Interfax. President Zelensky also said that he's prepared to discuss a commitment from Ukraine not to seek NATO membership in exchange for a ceasefire, withdrawal of Russian troops and a guarantee of Ukraine's security, according to AP.White House said European leaders discussed conducting calls on a regular basis and discussed Russia's "brutal" tactics in Ukraine during their call on Monday, while the US wants to hear China condemn Russia's actions.UN General Assembly's special session on Ukraine will resume on Wednesday after a relevant request, according to Sputnik.DEFENCE/MILITARYUS President Biden said Ukraine is fighting valiantly and using equipment from the US, while he added Russian President Putin's back is against the wall and he is talking about new false flags such as biological weapons. President Biden also suggested this is a clear sign that President Putin is considering both biological and chemical weapons, while he added that Russia may be planning a cyber attack against the US.UK Ministry of Defence said Russia claimed it fired a number of hypersonic missiles against Ukrainian targets and that its claims of using the developmental Kinzhal are highly likely intended to detract from lack of progress on the ground campaign.Ukrainian forces announced the recapture of the Makarev area west of Kyiv, according to Sky News Arabia.Ukrainian TV Channel PRM noted that Ukraine's ambassador to Warsaw said Poland understands all the threats from Russia and is preparing for a possible attack by the state, although the ambassador has not yet confirmed or denied the statement, according to Twitter and Daily Sabah.Russian military said 67 vessels from 15 countries remain blocked at Ukrainian ports due to mines, according to Russian press Tass.ENERGY/ECONOMIC SANCTIONSSupport for an EU-wide ban on the purchase of Russian oil is growing inside the bloc, according to diplomats cited by WSJ, although the report added that an agreement on any ban is far from locked in yet.US President Biden's senior aides believe that Russia is suffering a dramatic decline in oil sales that stands to deprive the Kremlin of a key source of government revenue, according to WaPo citing sources.EU's Borrell said the EU is ready to take further restrictive measures against Russia and that sanctions cannot come at an unaffordable cost to the EU, while leaders are to discuss what sanctions are possible.French Foreign Minister Le Drian and US Secretary of State Blinken agreed to continue strengthening sanctions against Russia and on the need to enhance the security of Ukraine's nuclear facilities.FUND/SOVEREIGN ACTIONRussia's coupon payment on sovereign bonds maturing in 2029 was processed by JPMorgan which worked with the US Treasury Department on necessary approvals, according to Reuters sources.S&P said it will withdraw ratings on all Russian entities.OTHERUS State Department said the US is prepared to make "difficult decisions" to return Iran's nuclear programme to its JCPOA limits, while it noted that an agreement is neither imminent nor is it certain on a return to the Iran deal and that the US is preparing equally for scenarios with and without a mutual return to the full implementation of the JCPOA.APAC TRADEEQUITIESAPAC stocks were mostly positive with the region shrugging off the higher yields and oil advances.ASX 200 was led higher by strength in the commodity-related sectors including energy after further gains in oil.Nikkei 225 gained as exporters benefitted from a weaker currency and amid stimulus speculation.Hang Seng and Shanghai Comp. traded higher with outperformance among the blue-chip tech stocks including Alibaba after it boosted its share buyback to USD 25bln from USD 15bln and with oil majors underpinned.US equity futures were lacklustre overnight with price action rangebound.European equity futures are indicative of a slightly softer open with the Euro Stoxx 50 future down 0.3% after the cash market closed lower by 0.5% yesterday.FXDXY continued to strengthen following a jump in yields and the hawkish tone from Fed Chair Powell.EUR/USD was subdued after declining beneath its 200-Hour moving average and the 1.1000 handleGBP/USD continued its pullback overnight with short term resistance at 1.3150 and its nearby 100-Hour MA.USD/JPY climbed above 120.00 for the first time since February 2016.Antipodeans were rangebound with price action not helped by the soft consumer sentiment data.FIXED INCOME10yr USTs extended on the prior day's lows after the front and belly led yesterday's acute selling of the Treasury curve as oil prices rallied and after hawkish comments from Fed Chair Powell.Bunds retreated further below 160.00 with futures down around 2 points so far this week.10yr JGBs gapped beneath 150.00 on spillover selling, with the 10yr yield at 0.22% and nearing the BoJ's cap.COMMODITIESWTI and Brent extended on yesterday's firm gains as support increases for an EU-wide ban on Russian oil. Albeit, opposition from some member states remains.Spot gold was rangebound with price action contained by a firmer greenbackCopper prices were choppy overnight and failed to benefit from the mostly constructive risk tone.CRYPTOBitcoin gained overnight in which prices briefly reclaimed the USD 43,000 level.NOTABLE EUROPEAN HEADLINESECB's Rehn said the ECB should normalise policy without hurting growth and rate hikes from the ECB would depend on economic developments.NOTABLE APAC HEADLINESPBoC injected CNY 20bln via 7-day reverse repos with the rate at 2.10% for a CNY 10bln net injection.PBoC set USD/CNY mid-point at 6.3664 vs exp. 6.3635 (prev. 6.3677)US State Department is taking action against Chinese officials for involvement in repression of ethnic and religious minority groups with the US imposing visa restrictions on Chinese officials, according to Reuters.Japan was reported to be eyeing additional stimulus valued over JPY 10tln, according to Sankei, although Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno later stated they are not thinking about an economic stimulus package now.DATA RECAPNew Zealand Westpac Consumer Confidence (Q1) 91.2 (Prev. 99.1)

Kiev: “Riconquistata Makariv”. Sirene d'allarme in 17 regioni

Steve Price speaks to National and International Security and Defence adviser Jacinta Carroll about the war in Ukraine. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

El anuncio del Gobierno español de apoyar el plan de Marruecos para la autonomía del Sáhara está dando mucho de qué hablar. Así, a nivel nacional ha sido criticado por los partidos de la oposición que, incluso, va a solicitar la comparecencia de Pedro Sánchez para que explique este cambio de postura. En el plano internacional, el Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Argelia ha llamado a consultas a su embajador en España ante lo que han calificado de “segunda traición histórica” de Madrid al pueblo saharaui. En cuanto a la guerra de Ucrania… analizamos los nuevos ataques de las fuerzas rusas en el país ocupado, para los que han utilizado una de sus armas más modernas, los misiles hipersónicos Kinzhal. Mientras desde Rusia afirman que las fuerzas ucranianas dejaron en el Mar Negro minas que ahora mismo flotan a la deriva, Volodimir Zelenski ha hecho un nuevo llamamiento a tener conversaciones “significativas” de paz con Moscú. Por lo demás, este sábado se han producido concentraciones en muchos ayuntamientos de España, convocadas por Vox. Y para terminar… el nuevo tema de Michael Bublé. Producción: Carmen DesmontsEdición: Cristina MuñozSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.