The David Hunter Perspective 20210210

Rhett Palmer and David Hunter “The David Hunter Perspective”
With surprise guest "Locally  Grown" expert Jim Fini

Retired US Diplomat David Hunter served in South Korea (1992-96), India (1996-99), Ukraine (1999-2000), Pakistan (2001-02) and Spain (2003-04).  In 1983 he was a Visiting Fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS),  Johns Hopkins University.  He published a book in 1991 "Western Trade Pressure on the Soviet Union. He holds a Masters Degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics , an MBA from the Crummer School, and a BA from Emory University. 

Today’s Agenda...

1)  Burma:  There was martial law imposed last week in Burma ( now called Myramar).  The democratically-elected government had won the latest elections w/ 80% of the vote, so the military got mad and decided to overthrow them.  Now millions of Burmese people are demonstrating for restoration of democracy.   What will happen next?

Note: David recommends seeing the 1995 docudrama Beyond Rangoon  to better understand what is going on in Burma today.

2)  Russia-EU relations: Russia has expelled three European diplomats.  This happened when a top level EU official was visiting Russia.  Putin expelled the three because they attended marches demanding the release of Alexi Navalny, the Russian opposition figure just arrested on his return to Russia from Germany.  Will Europe start getting tough on Putin?

3)  Iran Nuclear Deal:  Will Biden rejoin the Iran Nuclear Deal, the JCPOA?  Iran's government demands that US first drop all trade and economic sanctions on Iran  before Iran will re-commit to the deal.  Biden  team says Iran has to act first.  What do you think?

4) Iran, Russia and China: If the JCPOA allows for weapons sales to Iran, will Russia and China offer this?  Why should the US object---don't we sell weapons all over the world? 

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