and i would even say trump i would say the generals are running the show there you know you know where i'm going there now using it as it's used to have u.s. troops permanently based in syria and alexander occurs with a very good piece in the round about this explaining that this is really the united states is playing see option and know what's talking about the u.s. plan c. which is actually derived from its big masters that many people think is the person that's pushing the u.s. permanent presence in syria more out of spite than anything else so this is a situation where you have a country that's not why did not invite like mark said no one no one that there's no international security council resolution nothing for the u.s. to be there but there they are and they're not going to leave easily you know we had trump when he was speaking publicly the press conference a quote get isis and go home ok let me have the whole thing there were right there for one reason to get rid of isis and get rid of isis and go home but his generals i think as we've been saying for weeks if not months on this program say something

very different but look what it will spread from two thousand and one it was their attack against the united states you know the point that was when this authority was given it was going. anyway so two thousand one mary mind you out of nineteen terrorists who participated in that terrorist acts fifteen were saudis there was not a single syrian not to single iraqi not a single bit but because of this event the united states intervened in the bit in iraq in syria i know they say that if the government troops get too close to them in syria they're going to self defense soon to attack them and that's good that's a second the next level of. i legal regime change it depends because several buildings were destroyed in the united states beckoned to thousand won by the people who were not citizens or syria but who. some code even in the same region

who actually were citizens of a country that is how we just sold them. those was a weapon but that's not important what is important is that it happened in two thousand and one and now we can kill anyone who gets close to us in syria syrians get close to the us soldiers in syria if the facts that's like russia moving troops within its own border and it's called a provocation you know where one of the interesting is from a media point of view is it any time trump says something he quote unquote lies is that the liberal media like to say this is a perfect example of saying something that has nothing to do with policy but nobody says a word a word it's remarkable how the mainstream liberal media they won't jump on this they'll jump on just about anything else is long as the neo con agenda is moved forward he can quote unquote law all he wants it because there is no opposition in

either the u.s. you know political elite or within the media only they are all cheerleading us regime change efforts now transitioning to partition efforts in syria they're all back at there's there's no objection even if trump is doing it in fact that's the few minutes that he actually gets some temporary plaudits right now when he does take over military action there i thought it was a little funny this week to see tim kaine the democratic senator question. the trumpet ministrations legal authority to be there well he's using the exact same authority that obama used to be there clinton supported use to be there so tim kaine's objections come off as a poor little little bart isn't my first question to you why is it important alex is really really important because. what we had on the as a backdrop of the pentagon papers in one nine hundred seventy one about u.s. behavior in indochina and i i. i rank everyone here by age but i remember the talk

of the imperial presidency where the president has the right to do on a whim like we saw the missile strikes i think in april the trump conducted against syria this is what i find really quite disturbing because we don't we yeah exactly but you know you have congress you know when it used to close hand cling on to hits authorities when it came to foreign policy now they're just giving it away and for . democrats and liberals. this is very strange of the ones that wanted accountability from the imperial presidency but they're only adding fuel to this and the congress has essentially walked away from its obligations when it comes to foreign policy as mark said there is no debate about any of these issues and the issues of war and peace could not be more important than what look let's not forget going back to when trump did send missiles on to the airbase in syria the first mainstream media or she would have. missiles brian williams c.n.n.

said he finally became president this is the day when trump became president starting to think are right so there you have this presidential when it comes to war this is not a partisan issue is it important is that first of all congress has completely abrogated its authority its constitutional authority to declare war the president the executive offices by the constitution does not have that power congress for decades now has refused to take that power back why because it's in pursuit of us germany their own support of it but congress has tried to take foreign policy powers that they don't have and this was the russian economy is tomorrow it was the sanctions against u.s. enemies russia iran and others where they tried to force so the trump administration to their vision of foreign policy which is economic war against iran let's not forget that obama wanted to invade syria and he went to congress. tried

to congress would have come for it but the american people did not have a nap it was like an invasion just like it happen in britain and they still went in and obama still bomb syria to the point where there were no more left. early troops into where we are today where and i've said before mark you know once you get boots on the ground it's harder they'd like to stay here you know the game and all of this. i mean in the military now is being given probably more money than it can possibly spend and again a bipartisan for such a contentious political environment give the military more money ok this is a recipe for absolute disaster it's true because the u.s. military budget now is over seven hundred billion dollars and little bit of that is not included war it doesn't go to and i'd like to point out to our viewers here is that there was in a regional budget and then there was an increase that increase is much is what russia spends on defense in here because every year that to russia spends between

sixty and seventy billion in its best years which are satellites and saudi arabia we're serious which is twenty seven percent of all what nato is european l.-y. spend on their defense my use of that u.s. so russia which spends four times less than the european allies don't they don't defense is so dangerous it's moving its troops inside its own borders it's created and you were thrown out of war in europe that's the object that we get from the newspapers not only in the united states about also you don't see too many russian warships in the great lakes to you correct me if i'm wrong there but they go they do go to the black sea now they're on the baltic sea right next to st petersburg i think alex brought up a really good point before this is about the nature of al-qaeda in syria. i wouldn't say that isis came from al-qaeda it had kind of its own roots in the you . u.s.

occupation of iraq and then spread into syria the number of passes than others who were imprisoned by the by u.s. authorities tortured there and that ends and so not that that's any kind of justification for what isis became but it then spread into syria and at times they were allied with both the u.s. backed free syrian army and with al-qaeda such as when east aleppo was taken but all through this this conflict while the u.s. government was maintaining their fiction pruning isis where they wanted to and letting it go when it came up against government areas they have never fought al-qaeda in syria and fact hold they have hold that thought we're going to go to a short break and after that short prince will continue our discussion on some real news stay with us.

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ok mike let's go back you read before the break you were finishing up a point the u.s. has never really fought in syria despite two u.n. security council resolutions demanding that isis and the al-qaeda and anyone who associates it with it and this is the problem is that the us and western media has as painfully admitted to it oh they didn't immediately disregard it the u.s. has illegally armed trained and salaried sectarian militants that are literally allied embedded within a much larger al qaeda for years so this was done primarily under obama trump a supposedly stop this policy but they're using an authorization of use of military force against al qaida for their presence in the forty's in syria when the u.s. has literally been aiding al qaeda in syria or syria had nothing to do with ok go ahead and just let me remind you of all the highs today that we had last week about

the bombardment over used you know civilians die in there while pool more of the route you swim is to defend in the southwestern part of it but let me remind you that in two thousand and nine in the beginning of two thousand israel started a parisian cost let in boldly similar situation for people killed by hamas missiles from gaza four people were killed in damascus the day before the start of the bombardment by the musa was coming from his group well israel during that operation killed at least one hundred so one thousand one hundred sixty six c.b.s. two hundred fifty out of them children and that's normal russian press reporting and that's the guardian citing sources. international humanitarian organizations and israel was trying to decimate the military structural hamas well hamas compared to the islamists it in is to go to is a company of sunday school boys you know hamas is

a palestinian branch of morton brotherhood basically the organization that was supposed to oust mr ross with american aid in the beginning of all of this yes then a lot more radical organizations took over as it could be expected in syria and no one is saying you know israel should be punished for want to do it in two thousand night even though the syrian government is doing exactly the same thing only it's only territory you know where the interesting thing i've said this before alex you know in everything we've said right here and with the media's coverage when it does coverage cover these things which is very little serious not even treated as a sovereign country it's like a doormat that everybody walks on ok and i think the again the way i started out this program about. the use military force. is solidarity and this is what really has to be recognized by our viewers i mean russia is there by invitation by the legitimate syrian government as is iran.

in in the in the in this is the crux of the whole thing we have a president that appears to be appears to me at least asleep at the wheel he doesn't know what his generals are doing he doesn't understand the policy he makes himself feel good by giving them all the money that they want but you know syria is ignored as a sovereign state it's really reported on and what is reported out exactly as you say it seems as if the u.s. has a right to be there and that the u.s. should be governing in damascus you know what is assad doing there when the americans should be there running the country and that's the position that's presented or israel or is it on whether it's ever sent b.c. or fox or saudi arabia or a turkey immediately if you want a topic that both of these networks agree on it's how do you. as has the right to be in syria but going back to the point of money given to trouble i think it's extremely hilarious that you have the one part of the us it's demonizing trump and saying he's crazy mad but then they give him seven hundred billion because i could be made to feel so yes mad with this huge military budget

a huge spike up around. and you didn't really give them it's every screen of preparation for their war like ideology that is rooted in the us right now because if drawn into a real mess that if there is a real war you can of what they will say the russians put human poet he's crazy and that's why you're there seven hundred billion you know at least a little bit when the cold us it's no different than yours if you do it and you know that there's no reason why they wouldn't say to you the media has been so cope with all of this they deem it use the word hysterical and this is actually the word that the western press this use this week they described hysterical violence rather than the hysterical propaganda they were putting out we saw in the washington post . louisa lovelock and liz sly put out a piece saying we have never seen violence like this except for a few months ago when the us was bombing muscle and people who were you don't want

anybody to think that over the louisiana pleads most lanes where two hundred also two hundred civilians were supposedly killed in one day but we're not worried about it when when the u.s. does it robert fisk writing pointed out very well that we have such a lopsided view of what's going on in places like east ghouta because on one hand the journalist refused to acknowledge who was down there and he's good as controlled by by for rebel groups as they continue which airholes. which is an al-qaeda jihad a splinter group jai you show islam the army of islam which are saudi backed jihadi and. which are a previously u.s. army. free syrian army group given to weapons that are allied with al-qaeda and robert fisk points out that the reason why we have such lopsided view everything comes from the jihad its own propaganda because if any western journalist dared

show those heads their heads while in the area controlled by what would happen just like any still operate they would lose their heads that it it's not about another very dangerous story let's go to north korea and the games are moving along. and we had some kind of far. between the two koreas but certainly lowering of tensions but the president of the united states warns about stage two which would be you know what he put it to largest ever north korea sanctions threatens ominous phase two bluster bluff oh it's the art of the deal this is the great of course i don't know how does who knows you know i haven't read the book was it gas is the contents of the press press conference with the australian prime minister i believe it was started in the middle of this press conference he throws out this ominous warning that it's going to move into you know second stage if if the more brutal sanctions

that they've imposed once again north korea and any ships or vessels operated with care and trade well any kind of what happened to the sanctions now essentially going to be directed against china ok that's because they've already gone down the path of the sanctions here it seems to me that again trump ate some self into a corner a gives the north koreans more tools in their tool box. and it really what it does is it you know if trump wants to show that he's a man of his word then we'll have world war three that's not a very good thought to think about well i wouldn't look at it in perspective in two thousand and eight us back georgian president saakashvili stopped at the war in georgia on the first day of their lives. and south of setia in south to say they can sell to st it in two thousand and fourteen during the olympic games in sochi and the u.s. backed nationalists in kiev basically have staged a violent coup in kiev this time they moved it to the end told the games right to

the end of the games we hear about the new sanctions so it looks like for the know that in big games is no want a time for peace it's a time for a sustained attack yeah when no one is paying attention they did it in the beginning they did it in the middle now they do it in the end of the games but it's also a time for action on twitter and shouldn't south be more worried now i mean because that's the obvious conclusion i mean like i said i wouldn't use reproach moment there's a still not a lot of issues right there but the fact that they're talking that's the beginning of something and if that's what we have right now we should continue that if the koreans north and south want to talk to each other and they want to talk peace let them i think that this is is a sign of bluster and it's also a sign of desperation yeah this is the neo cons in the us speaking through trump a finger puppet furious the north koreans and south koreans are talking to each other and have

a joint olympic team it in seoul for this winter olympics and they are expressing their outrage with this bluff and bluster i least we hope it's all bluff bluster because there's a there was actually a very good piece in foreign policy a few weeks ago. saying that the a war a u.s. war on north korea is it wouldn't be as bad as you think it would be much much much worse and if they want to see the horrors the millions of south korean casualties that would ensue when it's completely unnecessary and south korea is doing exactly what they need to do which is brush the u.s. to the side get these warmongers out of the way and seeking peace on their own terms and. no matter what the u.s. screams and everything north korea is not going to denuclearize until the u.s. military threat to them is real we could come into a situation. invented a situation where there's

a security crisis in south korea and. exactly but if something like that is invoked then the entire south korean military is under the command of an american four star general this is you know south korea is a country of limited sovereignty when it comes to its defense and security it's like you're just like japan here and it's what i think was already mentioned here you know the united states is acting as a spoiler in syria as a spoiler in their alliances in the pacific much of the narrative is that you know north korea is trying to drive a wedge between the u.s. and south korea that's the narrative that you hear on the mainstream media in the u.s. you assert that you know you want to you know you north koreans have to civilizations that have been together for the libyan for millennia and i sort of see why does he want to run a nation and the worst part about the bad optics about this trip is making this statement during the olympics in south korea and it just looks so petty and so poor

especially when you had mike pence wasn't standing for the for the team that's joint team he didn't bother to stand for it and show some respect that you have trouble coming out with this comment during the games all this is happening at a time when we should we should look forward to the two teams working together that there is dialogue between the two countries and they have an olympic games in south korea they should move the ball forward not move it back if there is if there is a lesson that they said the games have told us and that is that it doesn't walk with the united states and with the european union because ok north korea agreed to have a joint team with south korea did anyone notice that it was hard for them actually right after the civil war in one thousand fifty three hoffer of a century or very bad confrontation right. but still they did it and what do they get in return you know the u.s. officials it being all that you don't e-mail and on this one because they have so much to lose that's why they're doing not the united states it's all the time we have gentlemen many thanks my guest here in moscow this is the end of our broadcast

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