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hello and welcome to crossed out, were all things are considered. i'm funeral about. there are more calls for a cease fire or some kind of negotiated settlement of ukraine conflict. some natal leaders have warned zalinski will have to make some difficult decisions. however, the west have little interest in russia's plan to restore the peace. that plan is in plain view. ah discuss these issues and more. i'm joined by my guest, george samuel budapest. he's

a podcast or at the goggles which can be found on youtube and locals. and in st. petersburg across to alexandra tom. he is a senior lecture and st. petersburg state institute of technology, or a gentleman, crossed up rules and the fact that music and jumping tommy want. and i always appreciate altura with georgian in budapest, george, as i said in my, my introduction, the whole focus of in the western world in this conflict in ukraine is to somehow um, get it settlement that is to preferential to ukraine. and of course, to it's, it's nato backers. and, but if, if you flip the coin, i think that you, it would be much easier to resolve this conflict if you took rushes interest into consideration. and then it's never done. and that's one of the problems in moving forward, because if there is, if there is no needed there, there is no recognition of a legitimate security interest. this is not going to end. well, it's good again, it's good and very badly. i thing for all parties involved. go ahead here. you summarize the perfect, the peter,

i this whole conflict started precisely because russia security concerns had not been addressed full, but around 30 years, but more law pertinently, ah, the last 8 years, wild nato, you know, as his boast was building up ukraine as a battleship director at a rush wrapped, and then of course, when a president, putin issued his 2 draft documents for some sort of a permanent security architecture for europe along the lines of the helsinki final like of the 1970s, the americans, another post nato. just simply say that we're not, we're not interested. there isn't going to be any kind of a settlement unless russia security concerns are taken into account. and yet when one reads all the media accounts and when we're on reads all these stories well that, that though sure to me wrong pushing a zalinski book,

what give us one good counter offensive. and then once this counter offensive, we'll succeed, then we'll be ready to negotiate. i mean then other, but you can't negotiate anything until you understand the position of the other party and, and that's why the whole western position is so ludicrous and this, this war cannot be settle unless the west simply realizes that he has to take into account what's thought that this whole thing, namely russia security concerns. yeah. alexander in st. petersburg, it's one of the things i find very tragic in it's, it's kind of an impoverished way of thinking is this isn't good. georgia said no give, it will give us one good offensive. you know, fall back some territory, then we'll sit down and negotiate is if russia be willing to do that. okay. it is assume that russia would do that if they were asked for because that the problem in

a way they approach from the west, which is very, very poorly thought out other than you know, hemorrhaging russia, which is probably one of the, probably the most important issue that has, this has nothing to do with ukraine, but even if, if there was even a unilateral cease fire on the part of the ukrainians that they, they went, nato countries would do is just, you know, rebuild up ukraine's forces to start all over again. and there's no sane person in moscow would allow that to happen because they want for 8 years. oh, nato built up ukraine and then we had this. ok, why would he wait another 8 years? wait, wait 8 weeks. go ahead. el center. i think part of what we're seeing from the west, as we've talked about before, is that there is a split in the u. s. lead between those who support continuing this adventure and ukraine and continuing to fund the effort and arm the efforts. and those who are seeing that they're not going to accomplish the west goals. so one thing that i

thought was pretty interesting recently is cameron hume, who was a former ambassador from the us. he's come out recently criticizing anthony blink and the secretary of state for his handling of international relations, particularly regarding russia. so i don't think that that sort of commentary is just random. i would think that somebody with connections like that a human has connections with the council on foreign relations. so it looks like he's part of this effort from some people in washington to say, look, we're not accomplishing western interests in the ukraine. so does it make sense to continue pouring all this money and all of these resources into it? and i think it's a really good point that lincoln is, is he's not so much of a diplomat in the traditional sense. he is more of an ideologue and a political operator if you look at his career history. and that comes out in the

way that he handles himself on the international stage. so he goes to meetings with the chinese and tries to chide them about what they're doing. and he goes in to meetings with the saudis and criticizes them on their internal affairs. and he is really not making any friends with his attitude on the world stage. so he's weakening the position of the u. s. and i think that some leads in washington are starting to get fed up with this really narrow minded, extreme push to continue trying to fight this war in the ukraine regardless of what outcomes we're seeing on the ground. yeah, i mean like the church it's allison brings up some very good points here. but again, the, the, the strategy there you can even call it a strategy. it's more kind of a messianic crusade, ideologically driven, the again, the, the, the, the entire approach, the u. s. in its allies have pursued as it,

it's an anti russia policy. it's not a pro ukraine policy again, the way you've, you know, came, if a supposition is performed badly, you're always going to get a bad outcome. and this is what this is. what's happened in this case? yes, that, that, that's unquestionably the case. it. so it's all, it's not really about ukraine. i mean that, that's why we need to sort of move away from any kind of discussion. this is about helping ukraine. this is an effort to arm your brain or anything of it. it isn't about your grade. this is a, a war using ukraine as a proxy in order to defeat, once a, for all russia, with it, with the hope that somehow you know, put in will be gone. you'll be overthrown. and some kind of a pro, western puppet regime will take over in moscow. and then essentially whatever's left or russia will be entirely at the mercy of native that's the ultimate objective. and people such as a blinking and, and biden unusual and,

you know, that's how they think that's their ideological perspective. and they're not just going to let it go. and that's why i've got the, you know, of course not rational voices will say, well, i think that doesn't make any sense as a ludicrously ambitious goal, but cannot succeed. but if people like that had prevailed at the beginning, we wouldn't be where we are. you know, russia would have accomplished its goals very early on last spring and would now be enjoying a peaceful, secured prism. we don't have that. instead, the, you know, the, the united states decided to make a stand here. and that's why where we are. and i think that's why it's such a dangerous so situation because it's very difficult for the united states to step up. it's very interesting a you have to look at the, the, the sense of causation years. because they, there's been over the last couple of years, not an original idea, but russia and china moving closer together. this has been going on for

a long time. people suddenly wake up to it here. and so the, the policy is we have to knock russia out where to use ukraine. we're going to knock them out before they get too close to china. well, that, that horse left the stable barry long time ago. and now with this proxy more ukraine, it's only accelerated, it be kind of constituting an alliance. russian chinese alliance. i mean they, they misunderstood what was going on and their actions are actually created the opposite that they wanted. i was under. yeah, that's absolutely true. i think on the international stage, you have to look at china and russia as being one entity effectively because they're both being encircled by nato forces. and neither of them like it naturally. so when they see what nato can do, the break up, the former yugoslavia being involved in afghanistan, iraq, libya,

the list goes on and they have a good reason to not be happy about that. keep going and economically, your point is well taken by chinese investors who have been pulling their money out of swiss banks because they're concerned that they're, you know, their resources may be frozen in the same way that russian assets abroad were frozen by the us. so the u. s. as kind of overstepped over played at hand. it's been so aggressive and pursuing its or against russia that they spoke to the rest of the world. people don't want to do business with a bullying regime like so. that's also been shown by recent reconciliation efforts between iran and saudi arabia hawks that took place recently in china. and that's also very significant because here is china stepping into the middle east to try and brokers some agreements between parties that historically do not get along very

well. and that also is going to have an effect on the situation in israel, because israel and saudi arabia for a long time have gotten along pretty pretty well. and saudi arabia has refrained from criticizing their actions too heavily. so now when i ran and israel, our enemies, so with saudi arabia and iran attempting to re establish relations that doesn't look good for israel's influence. and there are russian forces and syria, which are providing a check against israeli attacks on, has below, or iranian targets in syria. so as the u. s. and the us ability to influence the situation in the middle east is declining. it's causing a decline and israel's influence in the region as well. so to some actors in the us, and in israel, it may look like the only way out of this spiral that they're finding themselves in

is to push ever harder on what's going on in ukraine. maybe they think that if they can break the russian military, then they can trigger like i said this to george many times in our podcast. i always get the sense there in the casino, and that's true let. they just keep rolling, the fitting the wheel and seeing that winning number will come up. ok, you know, george, we have a minute before we go to the break. what is it? it's 10 rounds, 11 rounds of sanctions that didn't work. the 1st round and why? what if it doesn't have the impact you want? why do you keep hunkering down? it doesn't make any sense to me, george question the case weight. they think that they keep doing it. and eventually they, well to call a point at which russia will collapse just like they, russia will supposedly collapse militarily or russia will run out of misses and artillery shells and the soldiers will mutiny or a russian government will collapse and will be overthrown. and so the, the russian economy will collapse, you know,

they'll be shortages even though they were all of the u. k. media reporting, you know, the contrasting the empty shells in the supermarkets, in the u. k. with the full a supermarket rush, i'd like to have sanctions and we're the ones who don't have enough a sanctions in the it. but i do, i have to go to a hard break. and after that hard break, we'll continue our discussion on some really stay with our team. ah, ah, ah, ah

ah, oh, european nations ultimately experienced that transformation where they are exceptionally was kind of defeated by the hard realities, right. or at least confronted with very significant wait a little more or less the only exception to that general tendency. that, of course, has to deal with the fact that the radical situation of the states is fundamental. that overnight it is the size of the continent. ah ah well connect across that were all things are

considered. peter le bell. this is the home addition to remind you were discussing some real bits. ah, let's go back to georgia in budapest, george. i sent him an introduction that rushes a plan for restoring pieces in plain view and we go back to december 17th, 2021. when a rush is sent to nato and to the united states. um, it's proposals basically recognizing the individual indivisibility of, of security and nato expansion and rushes roll rushes place in the pan european, a security architecture. which of course, is all kind of down going back to the original thinking about security of the helsinki process, which you've already brought up in this program that's, that's viable. i don't think that's going to change. it hasn't changed even after

a year of conflict. george. no, that's right, i mean, because what are the russians was seeking was some recognition ah, from the west that what the west has been doing for 30 years, this nato expansion essentially creating this block, this military block that is clearly surrounding a russia and is to target that of russia, that this cannot go on, the russian just simply cannot accept military alliance on its borders on those big b o, particularly because got alliance. it has, is targeted russia as their primary recycling. they explicit about their explicit or then, you know, particularly when we've had the past decade of this constant barrage of anti russian propping gan, the old, the sanction of the sanctions didn't stop. you know, after that the, the launch of the special with the choppers. we've had all the magnet ski ag sanctions. we had all the sanctions about. suppose that russian interference in

u. s. elections in the been wave of the wave of sanctions. and russia sees this military alliance is moving towards our borders. you know, the one country that is, it is our ally, bella ross, is the con, some targets of would be color revolutions. they want us to be totally surrounded by nature and rushes. we can't take this anymore. this is an absolutely exist central right for us. and, you know, with responses, we're not even going to talk about it, you know, russia just isn't strong enough to dictate times to us. well, you know, this, this was the effects. and although the europe there, right, any kind of a negotiated outcome will have to recognize that you can't let nature cannot go on as it's been doing because they will be more was and they'll be even more deadly, was intending george competed up really well. because if the west is obsessed with, again, it's ideologically obsess,

democracy hopper see all of this kind of nonsense that they throw out. and then they talk about ukraine's security. and it's relationship with the north atlantic treaty organization. they're focused on ukraine's borders. it's security. but he can't, it can, at the same token, they can't recognize that russia has security interest as well. that's that's, that's that, you know, that that's what's missing right here. and that's where that is keeping any kind of settlement far out of reach. because up until they recognize russia has security interests. there's going to be no peace in europe. i think victoria new and also recently just admitted that the conflict and ukraine is about the stabilizing the russian government and trying to remove him from power. so this, you know, the talk about ukraine and territorial integrity that i would consider to be just

wallpapering for their real motives, which are clear enough even before noon and said anything about it that it was all directed against russia. so it seems that whatever portion of ukraine is not taken under the control of russia, that's going to effectively be part of nato. whether it's admitted officially or not, in some sense of russian attempt to remove nato from its borders through this war has failed. because now we do have an, an nato army in ukraine, and it's difficult to get figures on it, but there's up 220000. perhaps the mercenaries, maybe 10000 of them from poland. the number is very all the time. so in that sense, russia is going to have to, if they can't find a diplomatic solution that actually removes nato from ukraine, then they're going to have to keep going further and further west in order to

achieve their goals of removing nato's presence from that territory. however, i also wonder, you know, this is turning into a time issue for the us. it seems to me that russia is able to continue this war indefinitely. while the us seems to be running more on a schedule, because already the u. s. is stretched between the ukraine front and the taiwan front weapons manufacturers are several years behind delivery and taiwan isn't getting the weapons that they have ordered. so the u. s. is getting stressed and nato partners and partners are not completely happy with the situation due to the economic issues that germany has suffered in particular with energy prices, the u. k. has been hit with energy prices going up. and this is all a result of the sanctions and the ongoing war in the you and the ukraine. and the u

. s. isn't letting us partners out of this situation, so it's putting pressure on nato much more. i think that it's putting pressure on russia. well yeah, it's a very interesting point. georgie. and i've always said that nato was never, never designed actually, to fight a war like disappear power. okay. it was a, i'm in georgia, i a bit older. it was always kind of it a bit of a dinner club. okay. it wasn't designed to do to actually be a military. and in, in a, in a conventional sense. it was more political and, and this is what they faced. yours. let's talk about the issue of d i d notification because that's the the 2nd prong that is have been never really been discussed much in the west. they just think is frivolous. but you and i know exactly what that means. the recipe regime change. you cannot have the current regime still in power. ok, and that is something that i'm on the west is going to have to contend with. and certainly mr. zalinski is going to have to contend with. because we all know that

anyone in ukraine, in power make some kind of concession, large concessions number of concessions. um they're, they're not going to be around much longer after they do that. we know that go ahead. george. yes that's, that's exactly that in russia's goals out while they were limited. i'm back in of last of february. clearly now has to include regime change in care because i cannot allow this zelinski gang, this rabidly raso phobic a crowd to stay in power. i mean, what, you know, what happens, i say there's an armistice as, as i'm sort of peace agreements, they will immediately start running. we know that's exactly what nature is going to do. i mean, they going to do what they did in 2014 and just restart this all over again in 510 years time. so russia has to make a drastic change. and i mean, and that's open all this. i mean, whenever america has sport is, was america who is pursued regime change in, or whether it's

a regime change. you saw the regime change in iraq. i mean, they publicly called for, you know, barella sat, us to go. i mean, it's ultimately, that's how you win the war. you have to remove the source of your problems. and, and in this case, clearly, you know, this is the, the landscape now they can, they come in this new plan, which is that we will, we will call russia russia anymore. we just call it bosco via credit card. allow this historically, a entity like this. you know, you know which a bum, there is stand on your border. so it regime change has to be out of the ultimate war objects. if she doesn't, alexander assists mystifying for me. i can understand the lens keys in his regime. there. russo phobic attitude because they have nato at their back to their funding. so keep protecting us. there's no downside but,

but the longer this goes on, the entire european security architecture is very unstable. it's very vulnerable. and of course, you know, there are people like victoria new and, and jake sullivan, every blink and they have a very long history of wanting to see the end of the russian federation. and that this is the stuff that you can learn. but you know, what about the people in the rest of europe? i mean, this is not their crusade. okay. it's, it is a crusade of elite in a very specific group of beliefs. go ahead. alexandra. yeah, you're absolutely right about that. i think it recently came out how in march last year, just after the russian counter attacks and done boston and other parts of the ukraine zelinski wanted to actually negotiate. and he was hoping to, you know, find a diplomatic solution to this right at the beginning. but the state department came in and the u. s. handlers came in and said, no, you can't do that. we have

a war to fight here. so it's quite clear that the ukraine has become an apparatus, the state department in the same way that the e u. is as well we all remember, newland call that was league where she was describing her disdain for the you. and i think you can only do that if you have effective control over the organization. so that's the problem that europe finds itself in, effectively a protector. it of the united states, regardless of what nato may call itself, or how it may brand itself, you find itself trying to itself and to protect your position. so it doesn't have the ability to lead an independent policy. and that's been seen by germany, germany, his interests are in tighter economic cooperation with russia. and that's how we got the north stream pipelines. and that's not in the interest of

a u. s. protexture it. and that's how we got the north stream pipelines destroyed as seen, workers came out with his studies of how about probably happened and indicates that the u. s. was involved, which doesn't really surprise anybody. you know, you have bite and going out there saying we're going to end it and we're almost out of time. but george, you know, sergeant schultz is we put referred to him on this boat and went to washington. what for like a day and a half, maybe less than that one hour visit with the president of the united states. no press coverage went back. so he was just giving his marching orders. wasn't he 30 seconds george marching out as well. that's the thing. europe's beliefs, he's not in any sense. representative of europe interest. it's an american bought and paid for trained lead and they represent openly, america's interest. yeah. well, you ended the program almost exactly on time. one thing we're going to be

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