Dr. James perry, one of our eminent strategist, codirector of the institute, and will discourse, opening setting the stage for the remarks that most of us will be making for the rest the day. Jim, the stage is yours. [applause] thisy i realize morning that i probably made too many slides, but we will get through as many as we can. What i want to do is discuss the endgame that almost was, because as we will see, by the end of differentre was a august 1945 and vision by roosevelt and truman. I am going to describe the strategy that roosevelt wanted to achieve, and leave it at that, and at the end of the day, we will discuss what truman wanted to achieve. I will discuss geography and logistics, roosevelts global strategy, the balance between the european and Pacific Theaters, and the opportunity theatermitments and one imposed on the other, discuss specific planning from 1942 to 1945, thinking about the warking, invasion as the developed. Logistics. Nd in the pacific, its tough. The Pacif
Madrid want to dance . And the chancellors confession. Merkel reaches a cover must with her csu allies on a migration cap. Well make to the green party at 8 30 on the wider Coalition Talks. Matt we have a half hour to go until the European Equity markets open up for cash trading. Taking a look at the futures trade this morning, we see gains with the exception of the ftse. Tehe dax futures, the cac futures, up 0. 2 . Take a look at the bund trade here. Here is a chart of the last three days of the yield. It came up substantially yesterday and is now back down a little bit. Pesky462, the bunds stuck in a tough range. Guy there are two other big stories we are watching. The chinese market, bouncing strongly. The banks really reacting. We are playing catchup. We have had the golden week holiday, but we had that rrr story we were factoring in as well. The hong kong prices are getting priced in for bradley. The china market and the equity market, the upside, but on the downside, we have this
Writer on the erosion of the liberal order and politics known as ill liberalism. Also at nationalism, goldman security and identity politics impact elections in the United States and abroad. Well, thank you brad for the kind introduction. And let me start by thinking my friend Robbie George and his james mattis program on american idealism and institution for bringing to princeton. Its my first time, beautiful campus. Let me extend and warm welcome to all of you for coming. I want to start with a personal story about my birthday. I happen to have been born on february 1, 1985. But the february 1 is the point of interest. Because on the persian calendar i was born and raised in tehran iran, its a date on which the Ayatollah Khamenei, is the anniversary of the day which the Ayatollah Khamenei in 1979 return to tehran from his exile in paris to help the Islamic Revolution and found the Islamic Republic that took over after the shah was toppled. I mentioned that because throughout my child
Promising a softer policy on the north. And 82 chibok schoolgirls held by boko haram are freed at last. Good morning. It is 7am in singapore and 1am in paris, where Emmanuel Macron is said to be frances youngest ever president. In a televised address, he said that he understood the anger and anxiety that many voters had expressed. Marine le pen claimed her performance was historic, and that france remain divided. Early results show that Emmanuel Macron has won more than 65 of the vote, more than 30 ahead of Marine Le Pen. Young, dynamic and very, very confident. Emmanuel macron, said to be the youngest leader since napoleon took the crowd by storm. Translation in the face of extremism, i know there are disagreements and i will respect this. And i will be faithful to that commitment taken, i will protect the republic. This is an incredible moment. Mighty france, an economic and political world heavyweight, key eu nation will be presided over by a 39 year old virtual political newcomer w
Its the anniversary of the day in 1979 where they return to to run from the exile in paris and found the Islamic Republic that took over after was toppled. I mention that because throughout my childhood, growing up, all of our relatives and friends would ask, when is your birthday and i would say february 1. None of my relatives were opposition figures, they were just average middle to upper class tehran residents. The surprising fact is most of them supported the revolution when it happened including some who were Civil Servants in the regime. That was always something with me as a warning for the hazard of political frenzies that can take over because you had an imperfect authoritarian state that was socially permissive and progressive in many ways. It was not a democracy, but in a fit of National Political madness that many people who carried out the revolution immediately regretted, they toppled at and replaced it with liberal and cause i totalitarian islamist regime and it will he