The World and Everything in It: December 7, 2022

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning!

As the war in Ukraine drags on, the Pentagon is wrestling with how to bring an end to the conflict.

NICK EICHER, HOST: That’s ahead on Washington Wednesday.

Also our weekly global news round up: WORLD Tour.

Plus what one church in Spokane, Washington is doing to help Ukrainian refugees.

And WORLD’s Janie B. Cheaney on living with a spouse with Alzheimers—the difficulties and the blessings

BROWN: It’s Wednesday, December 7th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

EICHER: And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

BROWN: Up next, Kent Covington with today’s news.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: GA election » Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock narrowly held off GOP challenger Herschel Walker last night.

WARNOCK: It is my honor to utter the four most powerful words ever spoken in a democracy: The people have spoken.

When the clock struck midnight, with roughly 3.5 million votes cast, fewer than 60,000 separated the candidates.

Warnock, who won a special election two years ago has won a full six-year term.

Walker was graceful in defeat. He told supporters …

WALKER: I don’t want any of you to stop believing in America. I want you to believe in America and continue to believe in our Constitution and believe in our elected officials most of all.

Warnock’s win gives Democrats 51 seats in the Senate. That means they’ll no longer depend so heavily on the tie-breaking vote of Vice President Kamala Harris.

However, much of the Democrats’ Senate agenda could be scuttled in the House with Republicans set to reclaim the majority of the chamber in January.

Trump Org convicted » A Manhattan jury convicted former President Donald Trump’s company of tax fraud Tuesday.

The former president himself was not on trial. But the jury ruled that his organization helped executives dodge taxes on lavish perks like Manhattan apartments and luxury cars.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

BRAGG: This was a case about lying and cheating … false documents to the end of evading taxes for the benefit of individuals and the corporations.

The jury found two corporate entities at the Trump Organization guilty on all 17 counts, including conspiracy charges and falsifying business records.

The Trump Organization could be fined up to $1.6 million.

Donald Trump has said the case against his company was part of a politically motivated “witch hunt.” And Trump Organization lawyers have vowed to appeal.

Biden travels to AZ but not border » President Biden traveled to Arizona Tuesday to visit the site of a new computer chip plant. But he faced criticism for not traveling a little farther south.

Biden touted $52 billion in semiconductor investments and another $200 billion for scientific research that he says will help middle class Americans.

But when asked why he’s visiting a border state without visiting the border, Biden responded …

BIDEN: Because there are more important things going on, and they’re going to invest billions of dollars in a new enterprise.

Neither President Biden nor Vice President Kamala Harris have been to the southern border since taking office.

Arizona’s Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich accused the president of ignoring the illegal immigration crisis at the border.

BRNOVICH: We know that people on the terror watch list have been apprehended. A record amount of drugs are flowing in.

Border officials reported a record 2.3 million migrant encounters in the last fiscal year.

Medals for Capitol officers » AUDIO: [God Bless America…]

The U.S. Army choir on Capitol Hill Tuesday, part of a ceremony to honor the law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6th of last year.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell:

MCCONNELL: Thank you for having our backs. Thank you for being not just our friends, but our heroes.

For keeping lawmakers and others safe, leaders awarded the officers with Congressional Gold Medals. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi …

PELOSI: May this medal, the highest honor that Congress can bestow, serve as a token of our nation’s deepest gratitude and respect.

The medals will be displayed in four locations — at U.S. Capitol Police headquarters, the Metropolitan Police Department, the Capitol, and the Smithsonian.

SCOTUS Gorsuch reeducation » A brief exchange at the Supreme Court this week between Justice Neil Gorsuch and Colorado’s solicitor general has called attention to a controversial Colorado law.

The court was hearing arguments in religious liberty case involving a Christian web designer in Colorado who objects on religious grounds to creating websites for same-sex weddings. The arguments referred back to an earlier case involving Christian baker Jack Phillips.

GORSUCH: Mr. Phillips did go through a reeducation training program pursuant to Colorado law, did he not, Mr. Olson?
OLSON: He went through a training process that ensured he was familiar with …
GORSUCH: It was a reeducation program, right?
OLSON: It was not.
GORSUCH: What do you call it?
OLSON: It was a process to make sure he was familiar with Colorado law.
GORSUCH: Someone might be excused for calling that a reeducation program.
OLSON: I strongly disagree.
GORSUCH: Thank you, Mr. Olson.

In addition to forcing Phillips to undergo the training program about LGBT accommodations and other state requirements, the state also required him to submit quarterly reports about his company's compliance with the rules.

Unlike the high court’s 2018 ruling in favor of Phillips, the current case involving designing Lorie Smith could clarify the core First Amendment freedoms at stake.

Suspect in gay club shooting charged » The 22-year-old man accused of opening fire in a Colorado nightclub now faces hundreds of criminal counts, including murder.

Colorado District Attorney Michael J. Allen said authorities on Tuesday formally charged Anderson Lee Adrich:

ALLEN: When you file 305 counts in a case, that tells the public, this community, this state, and this nation that we are taking this case as serious as we possibly can.

Aldrich allegedly gunned down five people and wounded 17 others at the club, which caters to LGBT patrons.

The suspect also faces hate crime charges. His attorney says Aldrich identifies as nonbinary, or not conforming to either gender. It’s unclear how that factors in the decision to pursue hate crime convictions.

I'm Kent Covington. Straight ahead: The Pentagon’s challenge: aiding Ukraine while maintaining America’s military might.

Plus, a church in Washington state that is welcoming refugees from Ukraine.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s Wednesday the 7th of December, 2022.

Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Myrna Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

We are off to an encouraging start in our December Grassroots Giving Drive, just want to repeat the challenge Myrna laid out yesterday that if you’re a regular listener, would you take a moment and think about how you value this program? What value do you attach to The World and Everything in It in real-dollar terms.

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However you value our work at WORLD, I do hope you’ll give that some serious thought and make a gift during our December Grassroots Giving Drive at WNG.org/donate and thank you!

First up on The World and Everything in It: U.S. policy in Ukraine.

Well, it’s Washington Wednesday, and at the Pentagon, Defense officials are still wrestling with a massive ongoing challenge: That is how to continue arming and equipping Ukraine in its fight against Russia while remaining ready to deter other threats to the United States and our allies.

BROWN: Joining us now to talk about how the Pentagon is addressing those challenges is retired US Army Lt. General Thomas Spoehr. He’s an expert on national defense strategy and equipment modernization. General, good morning!

THOMAS SPOEHR, GUEST: Good morning. Thanks for having me today.

BROWN: General, let’s start in Ukraine. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said this week that Vladimir Putin is trying “to bring the Ukrainian people to their knees” with relentless strikes on civilian targets.

Is Putin now just trying to terrorize the country into giving up by destroying its infrastructure? What do you think Putin is trying to do now?

SPOEHR: Myrna, you can’t really draw any other conclusion. He’s hitting the electrical grid for these cities and the rural areas as well. And electrical grids really don't have a military value because Army soldiers, they don't plug into the grid, they're usually self-contained. They have their own generators, their own power, their equipment comes with this power. So the only thing destroying the electrical grid can do is inconvenience and hurt civilians. You know, I was just looking at the temperature in Kyiv today and the feels-like temperature is 12 degrees. So you can imagine what it's like to be without your power and it's 12 degrees outside.

BROWN: Sen. Angus King, who serves on the Intel Committee essentially said this week that Putin is looking more and more like a cornered wild animal and he becomes increasingly dangerous as he runs out of options.

What are your thoughts on that? And how far do you think Putin could or will go?

SPOEHR: Yeah, that’s a question that a lot of people worry about. I would differ a little bit with Senator King in that Putin is losing soldiers. He's losing equipment every day in Ukraine. And so while he may become more dangerous, he may become more unstable, his military machine—the one that he uses to coerce and create terror—is becoming weaker. And so Russia as a whole, as a country, because of the economic sanctions, because of the loss of his military folks is really actually not becoming dangerous. The only thing dangerous probably is what's going on in Vladimir Putin's mind.

BROWN: Well, back to the Pentagon now. Give us an update on what kinds of weapons and assistance the United States is providing to Ukraine.

SPOEHR: That’s a great question. We’ve all heard about the Stingers and the Javelins and that has kind of transitioned. I mean, we're providing smaller amounts of those. And now, the focus is turning to munitions, specifically, HIMARS rockets and artillery shells. And the Pentagon, even though they had war reserves, supplies of those materials, is now scrambling to get with the defense industry in the United States and to increase the production on these kinds of things. So they are signing contracts, it seems like almost every day for millions, hundreds of millions of dollars for these new munitions in order to be able to support the fight in Ukraine. The dilemma is even if you sign a contract today in December, it will still be months, if not years before some of that equipment is delivered. So we're a little bit behind the eight ball in that regard.

BROWN: Is there anything the U.S. military is not currently providing that you think it should? Something else that could make a big difference?

SPOEHR: I do. It bothers me as a military person, that Ukraine, we haven't given them much capability to strike the territory of Russia itself while Russia is at complete liberty, it seems, to strike any part of Ukraine including the power grid's as we talked about. We are somewhat constrained in Ukraine to just striking the Russian forces that are inside of Ukraine. And, you know, history has shown in all the conflicts that the United States has been in that if you give your opposing force, your enemy sanctuary in some other country, the fight just goes on and on, because you can't bring it to a conclusive thing. Now, I know, the United States, the President and others are worried about escalating this conflict. But, you know, Russia, they're the instigators of this. If they're going to strike Ukrainian power grids, I don't understand why we wouldn't allow the Ukrainians to strike the Russian power grid in response. That's how you deter people from doing things. And so I would like to see us giving the Ukrainian military more longer-range munitions than we have given them thus far, munitions, and probably fighter aircraft, because their air force is severely diminished from how it started the war.

BROWN: In the process of arming Ukraine, how does the Pentagon avoid depleting its own weapons stockpiles and remain ready to deter other potential threats?

SPOEHR: Well, that again is an excellent question and that's something the Pentagon is grappling with every day making these tough decisions about how much to give and how much to hold back. We as the general public can't really see this because we can't see what the stockpiles are of war reserves, we can't see what the requirements are for the other war plans like for a fight against China like that. So we are only dealing with very small scraps of information here. Some of this you can see where the United States has asked some of its allies, like South Korea, to sell artillery shells to Ukraine, and that suggests that, hey, maybe the United States is at the point where it rather would rather not give any more of its own artillery shells because we're nearing the point where that would cause us undue risk.

BROWN: What kinds of weapons does Taiwan need to make China think twice about invading and can we supply those weapons?

SPOEHR: We can supply some of them and so some of them are very similar to what we provided Ukraine at the start—Javelins and Stingers are helpful for Taiwan to help their defense. It is a different situation, though. And so, you know, Taiwan is obviously an island. Ukraine is landlocked. Some things that we could provide to Taiwan that we didn't provide Ukraine are mines for the sea. And so floating mines would help keep the Chinese navy at a greater distance from Taiwan. Anti-ship missiles, again, for Taiwan to use against the Chinese navy, that would also be helpful, and they have a more limited role in Ukraine. And so I think those would be helpful and we haven't really provided much of that to Ukraine.

BROWN: For this last question, I want to ask you also about Europe’s role in Ukraine and in NATO’s defense. By some reports, Germany may be backtracking on its promise to increase its defense spending.

And Finland’s prime minister said this week that Europe isn’t truly prepared to defend itself … and that without the United States, Europe would be in trouble. Your thoughts on that assessment?

SPOEHR: I think there’s a great deal of truth in what you just said. Germany pledged to provide 100 million euros. I don't think we have seen that yet. They have similarly pledged to increase their defense spending to at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product. We haven't seen that yet, either. And those pledges were made in, I want to say, the February timeframe. So it'd be about time where we start to see some of those promises come to fruition. And so if they do not, I think that should be cause for concern.

It has been true for a while that NATO, you know, America is really the linchpin of NATO. There are some countries within NATO that are very strong militarily, but it is usually always taken American leadership and capabilities that NATO kind of forms around. You know, I will say a couple of things. So there's some countries in Europe in terms of supporting Ukraine, I don't think they're pulling their fair share and their fair weight. And then on the other side of that, there are some countries that are and so Poland comes to mind as a country that is going above and beyond, as is the United Kingdom, as is many of the Baltic states like Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia. They're providing great support. And so it's kind of a mixed bag, if you will, in Europe of those that are really doing a lot and some that could do more, I think.

BROWN: We’ve been talking to retired Lt. General Thomas Spoehr. He is the director of the Center for National Defense at the Heritage Foundation. General, thanks so much!

SPOEHR: Thank you, Myrna.

Next up on The World and Everything in It: WORLD Tour with Onize Ohikere, our reporter in Nigeria.

ONIZE OHIKERE, REPORTER: DRC unrest — We begin today’s World Tour in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

AUDIO: [Protesters singing]

Residents in the eastern provincial capital of Goma marched for peace Monday, singing, carrying candles, and holding banners.

That’s after authorities blamed a rebel group for killing more than 270 people last week in the town of Kishishe.

Goma resident Amani Jordan attended the march.

JORDAN: [in French] …we are looking for peace with the neighbors but they don't want to give us peace…

He says here the Congolese want peace, but their neighbors refuse to give peace.

Authorities have blamed last week’s deaths on M23, one of dozens of rebel groups plaguing the restive eastern region. The group claimed only eight people died in the attack.

M23 rebels seized Goma a decade ago. Authorities integrated many of the fighters into the military after a peace deal. But the group reemerged last November, accusing the government of failing to live up to its end of the deal.

Congo has accused Rwanda of backing the rebel group, an allegation Rwanda has denied.

W.Africa police force — We head over to western Africa, where leaders have agreed to create a regional security force.

That decision comes as the region battles jihadism and a spate of coups.

AUDIO: [Applause]

During a summit in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, the leaders said restructuring their security architecture would allow them to take care of their own security instead of relying on aid from external actors like the United Nations, France, and Russia.

Mali, Guinea, and Burkina Faso have all experienced coups in the past two years.

Omar Alieu Touray is president of the regional Economic Community of West African States.

TOURAY: The leaders have decided to ensure that the transition stays on course in all 3 countries.

Touray said the regional defense chiefs will hash out the details of the force in the second half of 2023. He added that funding would go beyond voluntary contributions.

El Salvador crackdown - Next, to El Salvador.

AUDIO: [Security troops]

This weekend, some 10,000 Salvadoran army troops surrounded the populous city of Soyapango, on the outskirts of the capital.

The operation is part of a state of emergency that President Nayib Bukele declared this spring amid a surge in gang violence.

The troops searched everyone coming in or leaving the city to arrest suspected gang members.

Gustavo Villatoro is El Salvador’s security minister.

AUDIO: [Speaking Spanish]

He says here that authorities are targeting 40 strategic points in the city to track down gang members… according to intelligence information.

Officials have detained more than 58,000 suspected gang members since March. But aid groups have questioned the heavy-handed tactics and suspect false arrests.

China eased restrictions — Finally, we end today in China, where authorities have taken a hint from recent protests.

AUDIO: [Traffic sounds]

In the capital of Beijing and other major cities, public transport has stopped requiring negative COVID-19 test results to board.

In Shanghai, residents also don’t need to show test results to enter outdoor venues like parks. And in Urumqi—the capital of China’s Xinjiang region—ski resorts have reopened and restaurants can now resume takeout services.

AUDIO: [Protesters chanting]

Rare protests over COVID-19 restrictions began last month after 10 people died in a residential fire in Urumqi, where lockdowns are common.

China has maintained a “zero- COVID” strategy even as other countries have lifted strict restrictions.

That’s it for this week’s World Tour. Reporting for WORLD, I’m Onize Ohikere in Abuja, Nigeria.

NICK EICHER, HOST: What a dreadful thing seeing those flashing blue lights in the rearview, but here’s a pullover story where I’m not entirely sure how this driver was able to see well enough to notice.

A Washington state trooper pulled over a driver because of snow on the car and not just snow on the car, but snow covering the entire windshield except for a small corner on the driver’s side.

So the trooper pulled over the driver whose name—mercifully—was not released and wrote a $500 ticket.

You know, police have heard ’em all, they’ve heard every excuse ever dreamed up, but are you ready for this one? The driver says: My windshield wipers weren’t working.

Unbelievable. Can you imagine how many windshield scrapers you can buy for $500? You could pay a neighbor kid to clear your windshield and still come out way ahead.

Just glad there was no accident.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Wednesday, December 7th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Myrna Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Coming next on The World and Everything in It: church translation.

As refugees from Ukraine began to spill into the United States earlier this year, churches wanted to know how they could help. Many offered supplies and places to stay. Others offered ways to connect with the community.

BROWN: One church in Spokane, Washington launched a new program to break down language barriers. Here’s WORLD associate correspondent Koryn Koch.

KORYN KOCH, REPORTER: Yaroslav Boyko used to live in Irpin, Ukraine, right on the edge of Kyiv. Through a translator, he tells his story.

BOYKO: I’m very thankful that my children don't– don't hear those sirens anymore. Those– those bombings... They don't– they no longer see the horrors of the war.

When war broke out in February, Boyko gathered his family and headed for the border. Two of his sons are military age and had to stay behind, but Boyko packed up with his wife and five other children and fled.

At first, it was a temporary move to Poland. Eventually, they came to the US.

BOYKO: We didn't have enough funds to do that and somebody made a post on Facebook about that need and some people saw it and that's how FBC got involved.

FBC is Faith Bible Church in Spokane, Washington. The church helped buy tickets for the family. A secretary helped them get an apartment and organized donations of household items from the church.

BOYKO: We wanted you know, we only wanted to cry because it was so it was so caring of the church. And she organized all of that support and a lot of people from church they donated their stuff for us and so that we've we felt we felt a lot of service.

Boyko says FBC reminded him of Irpin Bible Church, the church that the family came from in Ukraine. They started attending FBC regularly—and they weren’t the only Ukrainian refugees who were interested.

SOBOVOY: More and more people started coming. And eventually, they asked me, Hey, can we organize translation?

That’s Dima Sobovoy. He’s the one who’s been interpreting Boyko’s words. Sobovoy is a Ukrainian immigrant who has been a part of Faith Bible Church since 2015.

SOBOVOY: My response was, Well, how about you first, visit all the churches around and make sure you go and visit all the Slavic churches first. And if you still want to be part of an American church, we can definitely do it. So that's what happened. A lot of them went around to call up in different churches, and most of them came back and said, Yeah, we would like to be part of an American church and can you can you help us with translation?

AUDIO: [FBC SERVICE - WORSHIP]

Every week, Sobovoy interprets the service from English into Ukrainian. Live interpretation wasn’t on the church’s radar before, so FBC is still trying to figure out the best set up. Right now the church broadcasts over a radio transmitter. People tune in on special headsets.

SOBOVOY: So right now we have 18 headsets and last Sunday, they were all gone and it sounded like we need more. So sometimes they're sharing. I think we're getting next Sunday, we're going to be actually using a Wi Fi signal so anyone can use their app on the phone. And, you know, connect from their phone through their own headphones.

As he interprets, Sobovoy has to be quick on his feet.

SOBOVOY: Different preachers have different structures of how they structure their sermons, and some like to stick to their manuscript more than others. I would generally get their manuscript before hand like a day or two before so I can prepare so I can go through it and translate it and have my notes ready. And for some preachers, I need to be ready that they might take this somewhere else. They might take a detour, so I just I just I'm learning to adjust…

Sobovoy says FBC wants to offer opportunities for refugees to worship without creating a separate group within the church.

SOBOVOY: We don't want it to be you know, a Ukrainian congregation. We want it to be an American congregation, but we want to help Ukrainian refugees to, to integrate.

That’s why interpretation isn’t the long-term plan. FBC wants to have one unified body.

SOBOVOY: And that's the reason why why we created this. It's more of a more of a bridge, to bring more unity to to to help integrate, you know that those who want it to be become part of FBC. So it's, it's it's inherently a temporary tool. And ideally, it won't be needed within a couple of years.

But for now, Yaroslav Boyko is grateful for the interpretation tool that is helping welcome him into the community. He can’t help but reflect on the way God works. Boyko used to work in ministry, helping people out of addiction.

BOYKO: So when when I came to US, I became the person who, who is in need, and I experienced a lot of blessings and I saw how God takes care of of the needy. He takes care of those who are in desperate, tough situations because now I was on the receiving end.

In the midst of war, Boyko is grateful for God’s work through his church.

BOYKO: I already feel myself as a family member here. I feel that unity here and being– being a part of– the part of the family.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Koryn Koch.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Wednesday, December 7th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Nick Eicher.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. Commentator Janie B. Cheaney now on the impact of Alzheimer’s disease in her family and the recent gift of a simple hug.

JANIE B. CHEANEY, COMMENTATOR: My husband can no longer write a check, make a plan, or consistently remember his children’s names. A few months ago, he asked me what my name was. Even though he knows it, that was a flashing red signal of things to come.

When I married him at age 20, I admired his decisiveness and initiative. He had hitchhiked to Canada and back, spent three summers selling Bible reference books door-to-door. During our first summers together we moved to different states between school semesters. He quit grad school to go work on a tourist railroad and later quit another railroad to go back to school. He started a business at age 45 and retired early.

At times, I resented that decisiveness and initiative when it turned stubborn. At times I longed for just a little more autonomy.

And now I have too much of it. Alzheimer’s has robbed me of a partner to help pull the daily load. No one to pay the electric bill or pick up a carton of eggs on his way home. I can get counsel for big decisions, but the little ones are mine alone, and I have to make them for both of us.

One thing my husband can still do, though: he can laugh.

In fact, now that the burden of finances and maintenance is off his back, he laughs more than ever. I could resent this, but it’s more fun to laugh with him.

Last month we visited the DMV to surrender his driver’s license and get a non-driver ID. I had met some resistance when trying to prepare him for this, but when the time came he didn’t protest.

There were only two clerks at the DMV with too many people in line, and nobody was happy about it. When we were called to the license-renewal desk, I quickly explained our business and turned over some papers. Then my husband started in with his peculiar brand of interaction, best described as “joshing.” He has a feel for who might be receptive—almost always women—and before long the clerk was laughing. That just encourages him, so he kept it up while she tried to make him look into the camera lens and give straight answers to her questions. The picture didn’t turn out great, but it was the best of three. By that time half the waiting population was smiling, and after I had written the check, the clerk asked me, “Do you accept hugs?”

That’s not the kind of question one usually gets at the DMV, but of course I accept hugs. And my husband not only accepts them; he often gives them. She walked around her desk to hug first me, then him. To me she whispered, “God bless you.”

Well, he has. Alongside the difficulties there are blessings in Alzheimer’s that I couldn’t have predicted. In days to come I’ll need to look for those, and listen for the Lord whispering, “Do you accept hugs?”

I’m Janie B. Cheaney.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Tomorrow: A new generation of pro-lifers wants to bring back the pro-life rescue movement that came to prominence in the 1980s. WORLD’s Leah Savas has a report.

Plus, the story of an unlikely partnership among historians, athletes, and self-proclaimed nerds—all in an effort to bring an ancient art to life.

That and more tomorrow.

I’m Nick Eicher.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown.

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