The John Batchelor Show

Preview: Conversation with Russell Shorto, author "Taking Manhattan," re the character of the Governor of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant, when the English invaded to conquer in 1664. More later and tomorrow.

Preview: Colleague Conrad Black Comments on the Strangely Exaggerated Campaigning by PM Mark Carney as If Donald Trump Is Planning to Invade. More LATER. 1878 NWMP.

PREVIEW: Colleague Veronique de Rugy comments on how the tariffs on inputs needed for manufacturing in America will lead to job reduction. More later. 1920 LA

PREVIEW: Colleague Anatol Lieven recalls the early NATO years when Britain and France acquired nuclear weapons, and why? More later. 1955 NEVADA TESTING GROUND

PREVIEW: Colleague Evan Ellis of the US Army War College relates how Brazil benefited from tariffs during the first Trump administration unleashing tariffs on the PRC. More later. 1936 BRAZIL.

Good evening: The show begins in the EU, asking if NATO is on life support? 1897 BRUSSELS : CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR SECOND HOUR THIRD HOUR FOURTH HOUR

#FRANCE: LAWFARE AND MARINE LE PEN. SIMON CONSTABLE, OCCITANIE 1940

GOP: UNTROUBLED: JIM PFAFF CONSERVATIVE CAUCUS. 1910 AURORA NEVADA

#CIVITAS INSTITUTE: CONVERSATION ABOUT THINKING OUT LOUD IN TEXAS. RICHARD REINSCH, CIVITAS OUTLOOK, CIVITAS INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN 1891 AUSTIN, FIRST STREETCARS

#INDIA: 17TH CENTURY VIOLENCE. IN THE 21ST. SADANAND DHUME, WSJ 1925 BOMBAY

2/2: #SOMALIA: AL QAEDA AND ISIS WITH DRONES, CALEB WEISS, BILL ROGGIO, FDD.

1/2: #SOMALIA: AL QAEDA AND ISIS WITH DRONES, CALEB WEISS, BILL ROGGIO, FDD 2022 PUNTLAND

EU: TALK TALK RE UKRAINE: JUDY DEMPSEY, SENIOR SCHOLAR, CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE IN BERLIN. 1860 BECHTESGADEN

BERLIN: MERZ DISAPPOINTING. JUDY DEMPSEY, SENIOR SCHOLAR, CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE IN BERLIN. 1850 BECHTESGADEN

USN: 2027 Rebecca Grant, vice president of the Lexington Institute, @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL 1936 RANGER, LEXINGTON, SARATOGA https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/f-47s-mission-take-china-you-have-have-it https://www.foxnews.com/world/germany-says-us-talks-russia-ukraine-war-deadlocked-china-has-different-takehttps://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinese-military-says-it-is-conducting-exercises-around-taiwan-2025-03-31/

ROK: APRIL 4: David Maxwell, vice president of the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy, @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-constitutional-court-rule-yoons-impeachment-april-4-2025-04-01/

Andrew Collier, managing director of Orient Capital Research and author of new book, China's Technology War: Why Beijing Took Down Its Tech Giants, on this: https://www.newsweek.com/china-reacts-donald-trump-brics-threat-1993886. 1888 CONFUCIUS

TAIWAN; THREAT: James Fanell, co-author of Embracing Communist China: America's Greatest Strategic Failure and government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL : https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinese-military-says-it-is-conducting-exercises-around-taiwan-2025-03-31/ 1887 CHING-YUEN1

2/2/: ERIC ADAMS "WITH PREJUDICE" FREE @ANDREWCMCCARTHY @NRO @THADMCCOTTER @THEAMGREATNESS 1888 FIVE POINTS

1/2/: ERIC ADAMS "'WITH PREJUDICE'" FREE @ANDREWCMCCARTHY @NRO @THADMCCOTTER @THEAMGREATNESS 1862 ZOUAVES OFF TO MARYLAND