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Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #ClassicRussia: One month before the invasion: Putin's party in the Duma calls for arming Luhansk and Donetsk. @Felix_Light @CBSNews (Originally posted January 26, 2022).  https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/01/26/russia-ruling-party-urges-the-kremlin-to-arm-ukraine-separatists-a76161

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport:  #Argentina and the Iran cargo plane unknowns. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis https://www.freightwaves.com/news/us-moves-to-confiscate-venezuelan-747-cargo-jet-with-iran-ties

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow  #NewWorldReport: Who is Cero Gomes of #Brazil?  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis https://www.ft.com/content/023c482b-4caa-4017-a924-17e307101562

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: The #Colombia army worries.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis https://www.ft.com/content/bcee1596-2caf-43d0-89c5-43d533f01da0

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport:. President Petro begins. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-colombia-rebel-gustavo-petro-inaugurated-as-president-11659917654

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Israel: The election and PM Lapid. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 https://www.timesofisrael.com/3-killed-after-bus-loses-control-outside-shopping-center-on-major-jerusalem-road/?utm_source=article_hpsidebar&utm_medium=desktop_site

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Iran: Everything they want and the cash.  Jonathan Schanzer FDD, Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1. https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2022/08/05/what-us-should-say-death-of-shireen-abu-akleh/ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/07/world/middleeast/israel-palestinians-cease-fire-jihad.html https://www.mofa.gov.bh/Default.aspx?tabid=7824&language=en-US&ItemId=20240

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow Israel: #Lebanon:  The War in the North. Yossi Kuperwasser- Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser is Director of the Project on Regional Middle East Developments at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1. https://www.timesofisrael.com/operation-breaking-dawn-was-a-tactical-success-but-wont-be-last-round-of-fighting/ https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/1659963135-opinion-the-iranian-connection-behind-breaking-dawn https://jcpa.org/what-iranian-officials-told-the-palestinian-islamic-jihad-chief/

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Israel: #Gaza:  The Palestinian Islamic Jihad rages.  Neri Zilber, a journalist and analyst on Middle East politics and culture, is an adjunct fellow of The Washington Institute. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/israel-and-gaza-keep-their-precarious-dance https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-it-significantly-damaged-islamic-jihad-during-gaza-operation/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/operation-breaking-dawn-was-a-tactical-success-but-wont-be-last-round-of-fighting/ https://www.inss.org.il/social_media/the-loneliness-of-islamic-jihad/

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #HotelMars: Building habitats in lava tubes on #Mars. Haym Benaroya, Rutgers. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078YPHDJX/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #ScalaReport: The slowdown on three continents. Chris Riegel, Scala.com #Stratacache https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/low-rhine-water-levels-another-drain-germanys-economy-2022-08-10/

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Ukraine: #Russia cannibalizing aircraft for parts & What is to be done? Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/09/russia-ukraine-live-updates.html

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #MrMarket: Republicrats and the overwhelming Congressional need to spend. Veronique deRugy, Mercatus Center https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/08/22/the-dwindling-difference-between-our-two-parties-on-spending

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Hibakusha: The James Cameron thinking 2022.  Charles Pellegrino, author, "Last Train from Hiroshima."  https://www.amazon.com/Last-Train-Hiroshima-Survivors-MacRae/dp/0805087966/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Hibakusha: The victims and the unknowns in 1945.  Charles Pellegrino, author, "Last Train from Hiroshima."  https://www.amazon.com/Last-Train-Hiroshima-Survivors-MacRae/dp/0805087966/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #SouthCaucasus: A rough neighborhood.for #Georgia, #Armenia, #Azerbaijan. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/08/04/new-clashes-over-nagorno-karabakh-signal-ripple-effects-from-ukraine/

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Ukraine: #Balkans: The tragic Ottoman and Hapsburg empires in the 21st Century.  Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/08/10/beware-of-viewing-balkans-as-new-front-in-russian-nato-proxy-war/

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #ClassicNPEC: what we didn't know about Occupied Chernobyl: #Ukraine: Unknowns of the Chernobyl catastrophe in war. Henry D. Sokolski @HenrySokolski, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center.  Henry #Sokolski  @NuclearPolicy (Originally posted April 1, 2022) https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/01/ukraine-chernobyl-russia-troops-withdraw/

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Mars: Curiosity is Ten Years old. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/curiosity-celebrates-ten-years-on-mars/

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #SpaceX: Passing the hat for Starship/SuperHeavy. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-raises-another-250-million-in-investment-capital/