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hello, welcome to the program. i'm hashem, abala. the 4th lines between russia and the west regarding ukraine are getting deeper at both sides, are refusing to back down. on tuesday rush as president vladimir putin ward of an appropriate response. unless europe and the last drop, the aggressive fostering the kremlin, rejects accusations, it plans to invade the ukraine capital, give as early as next month. it wants ne, to, and the united states to reduce their presence in eastern europe. but europe says buttons demands are impossible to keep while washington is preparing to negotiate over his security concerns. would you put those in, in the event of the continuation of the obviously aggressive stance by our western colleagues. we will take appropriate retaliatory, military technical measures reacting firmly to unfriendly actions. and i would like to emphasize,

we have the right to do so. we have every right to act to ensure russia security and sovereignty. we have to see if the 1st is that there is any progress to diplomatically. we also want to see russia deescalate, to move forces back from the border with ukraine to take down the tension. ah, it's some much more appropriate to have a conversation are in those circumstances than it is when an escalation is happening. obviously, one of the conditions lead to ours. my russia is to now that allow ukraine into nato. but ukraine's level a de mer zalinski says there's a clear time frame for that. my browser no more yet more, we are striving to unblock the peaceful settlement process and don bass line as quickly as possible to get crimea back to chief you membership in the next few years. and to get a very clear time horizon from nato. very concrete and we wanted in 2022. ah lettering in our gas in moscow,

a pavel fell going how're military analysis and carmen is foreign to via gus eta, in berlin, fast them bene, co founder and director of the global public policy institute, washington d. c. a. david, the rush. professor at national defense university and former nato operations director or the joint chief of staff. welcome to the program, pavel, can we some of this whole crisis now as for laws for moscow to deescalate all the border with ukraine? ne, to has to roll back from eastern europe more. i would say it's bigger than just ukraine. right. ukraine? maybe it has been the focus point of the rush or western stand up with now it's kind of more and rush is talking about not just about your brain, but about the entirety of the russian border. you cri, you border between rush and they go and russia wants to have

a secure situation where there are no threatening western mo, trees, or weapons or anything and appearing there. and those that are there should be withdrawn. and russia have a right to have a kind of veto on nato expansion or natal deployment, even in countries that are already became nate members after and $97.00. so it's more than you create. but you agree and of course is the focus point. that's the sure thing for us, and you would expect also statements and narratives when it comes to conflicts such as the one we're dealing with. but when you russian defense minister. so gay show says that u. s. private admitted to companies are plotting provocation using unknown a chemical component. how do you see that statement under the background? well, i guess the background of the conflict on this is just cynical propaganda to give

a pretext for foreign invasion. this is by far the most dangerous situation, militarily we've seen in europe over the past 3 decades. are i agree with the demitria parents, the founder of a silverado accelerator that are all signs point to put in actually preparing to launch an invasion with a technical and game off establishing a puppet state in houston, ukraine, and creating a language to crimea. but more so teaching and game and the russian colleague alluded to that to establish some sort of put in doctrine that no country of the former soviet union ever has. the idea of trying to join nato without fearing in bay invasion. and that seems to be the name of the game from the, from the kremlin son david, one of the arguments advanced by president putin,

is basically, it's about time for nature to stop those activities. deploying troops at the doorstep of a russia. is it exactly the way he portrays the the situation or do you think that one of the biggest concerns of russia is nature deploying tactical advance weapons particular besides into those areas widely seen by russia as a massive thought to its national security? well, you know, you've got to start with the priest that, you know, couldn't spoons operate from the precept that countries that were part. and so you know, or did the warsaw pact or not fully sovereign. and that russia, the soviet union, you know, has to do it. but i think really what you're seeing here is him chickens. the keys look um, you know, inflation in russia is 18 percent 40 percent of russians have no savings at all on the north street to pipeline will not be approved. they'll do the best scenario until the summer. and basically they're looking at a long, cold, miserable winter with

a lot of poor people. and i think he's basically just trying to change the narrative, you know, move to a war time economy, hopefully without war, just to, to minimize this vulnerability. the rest of this is all smokescreen. pavel is watched as biggest concern native deployment in the eastern part of europe. what is it? russia's obsession with this fear constant fee that ukraine and other countries on likely to further drift away from russia's sphere of influence. whoa, russia believes that ukraine as well as there were rules, are part of the old greatest star, russia, and that they should not join western alliances because in the n n a, the ship re unite with russia proper to a greater russia puts in, wrote about that the simplest published this summer, and i know that not only put in but many in the russian ruling,

we believe that this so, but there are also some kind of some very concrete security concerns. and by puts in personally, because it's an old idea from the, from the time of the euro. miss, our crisis of the eighty's and american pershing to massage were deployed. and land based cruise massage were deployed in europe. that the west, the united states are planning, decapitating 1st book to destroy the russian political, military leadership. and so that the russian military can be organ well organized for a reply attack. and that's what he was talking about of these minutes of how quickly the missiles can reach mars, who it means he's talking about himself that he may be taught. he's the main target . and that's what the russian general staff is telling the kremlin that put in is

the main target. the americans want to kill him. and he know, and he believes that this so, and that's why he's reaction is very emotional. not just the smokescreen. he's really afraid that he's going to be targeted and killed in a sudden american attack thought. so the, another argument at best buy was basically, as the expansion of nato eastward is almost irrelevant because the political world or the now is completely different than before. the end of the cold war i don't know, i don't understand that that argument, the extension is not irrelevant at all. if anything is more pressing concern for the crime than, than ever as well as which just hurts those countries who had the lack of joining nato and enjoy article 5 guarantees. they can feel that they're protected by nato alliance. the problem and,

and the main target is these in between states that are not part of, of nato or any western institution. now that russia and, or that president putting, consider as part of the russians fear of influence and where he and i don't think it's a smokescreen, the security concern in the kremlin, the very real, the, whatever the, from the proceeds to be a security threat is security you don't need to be hyper constructive as to, to see that. and they, they, at the very least if not for, you know, if not realizing these pen russian empire dreams, at least they want to buffer states. that they, that they defacto control because the criminal is indeed the afraid for security and also regime survival. imagine the bellows, ukraine, georgia, all these, all these countries turn into some sort of democracy that,

that would also also be threatening from the vantage point of a corrupt regime in the kremlin. david, you served as dates as oppressions. director the john chief of stuff and you know, the russians have been thing a police as well as putting is concerned. there's always this post soviet mindset which is 1997. we were told in the, in the early ninety's, the russians were told to join the partnership for p passed and then they were told the truth would be remain stationed as per 1997. but that was suddenly collapse and the nature started to move forward. and reaching out to different countries. this is a massive, massive security threat for the rush as wish the door wants to see a replicated anytime. so, and this explain that 0 tolerance as far as ukraine is concerned. yeah, this is all hogwash, look, the regime threat that is concerned about is

a color revolution. and the reason why it's done that is because he hasn't delivered anything for his people. nato expansion happens. you know, the, the local assurances were made during the time of gorbachev, you know, to the soviet union, where she suggests this the, the arrangement changed. and when nato expanded, it didn't expand with focus on russia. polish troops weren't arms to go to the polish border by the way, because i guess the united states went through every single tank from europe in 2014 and they remained withdrew. and joe, couldn't it be the crime? except what we've got here is there's not a legitimate natal threat. you know, there weren't even war plans to defend the baltic republic roper year after their accession over a decade after their session. this is hogwash. what you have here is a guy who has a wonderful domestic position because he's delivered nothing 1st people other than

this idea of return to the great wars of the soviet union. you know, a few weeks ago or a few days ago. so the russian hockey team played in the old soviet union jerseys and finland they last. so i guess he took him back to 940. but you know, all the stuff that he says is just hogwash. traditionally, what a country joyce, nato, their defense spending actually decreases. they actually spend less money on that, and i can tell you that, you know, i've never seen any contemplation offensive action only, you know, updating plans from the cold war. and the finally, we've got bear in mind, russia occupies the big part of crimea, are a big part ukraine. they completely antics the crimea. this is not as if there's just something coming from the west. there's a 7 year war going on that was directed and bankrupt by russia and the fact that it's been unable to deal with a corrupt, any in country in 7 years. that undermines as it is images a strong man to so now,

okay, her time for him, detroit rattle some cages. however, why do you think the russia leadership put in, in particular, is insisting on the security guarantees to been met before any death? the escalation on the border with ukraine. it's a bigger picture than just the ukraine for russia about ukraine. russian right now is very adamant. no, there'll be no need go. accession, fission to the european union and brush will do what it takes, no matter what to prevent that. but the picture of this is big, your rush is demanding. security guarantees the entire, the, the eastern franco from may go and russia is demanding that right now, very adamant week. why right now the situation has come to the forefront. well,

there's a, that's a very complicated require would be very complicated than long, or basically the russian military had plans enacted more than 10 years ago to build up the russian military or a possibility of the big war europe in the 20s. so now, according to brand, russia is more or less ready, though, the kind of date of war was about $2425.00. but anyway, right now we're ready and that's what you know, he's general said yesterday, this big be in moscow. that right now we're number one, we have hyper speed mess, south america does not. so right now, russia has an advantage and most likely should use that military advantage to get political concessions. ok, foster how to explain the fact that the russians till what a claim that the top priority for them now is a ban on ukraine entering the nato. and we know that from 2014 nature has never

shown any genuine appetite to have a you create a lot. i mean, look what, what they've said, i think from the credit message point is exactly confirmation of their concerns and fears. i agree with with dave on russia, violating international law and commitments under the budapest memorandum to retrain. that's all crystal clear. but to say that all these guarantees about the not expanding, they know they were given to the soviet union and all that's open union to cease to exist. so they were no longer valid. that was totally fine to expand nato because it wasn't that all directed the ad, russia from the criminal matters point, that's exactly prove up the depletion is hypocritical nature of. busy off the us and it's, it's nato allies, and they're very concerned about expanding nato,

but they're even concerned about ukraine. mean, i think one thing the kremlin has learned over the years a ukraine that is not part of natal, but still is able to purchase advance to weapons from a to a partner. these drones they purchase from, from russia, is maybe even more unpredictable. and they simply don't trust the president lensky on, on the, on eastern ukraine. they think he's out there to retake the territory. they want to preempt that i'm not at all justified as i'm but i think we do in the west need to understand the rationale off the criminal for doing this. and i think it goes beyond just the diverting from the very dire economic and socio economic situation at home. this is not just a diversion tactic. i think this,

this is going after some very real goals for the crevice. david, they the though the whole narrative is widely seen as a saber rattling just for the sake of political compromise any, any time. so now from an american and european perspective, what do you, how do you see the compromise if it ever happens? yeah, it's really tough. i mean look, natal operates by consensus. so i cannot imagine is the situation in which was when he left sonia and poland, all agree that there shall be no deployments in their territory. that's not going to happen. the intermediate nuclear arrange forces rushes movement of screwdriver missiles into europe. there probably will be some sort of a reaction to that. there's a possibility for a compromise there, but it won't be a compromise that allows russia to keep its intermediate nuclear missiles in place . the, the fact is the u. s. top producing those missile 30 years ago. so we take us

a long time to match that other things that brushes down that test of the anti satellite muscle. ready weapon the hypersonic missiles. ready as i mentioned earlier, those are all technological things and eventually, you know, once the capabilities match, presently they can be negotiated away. but the, the bigger issue i think comes down to ukraine. and i think really what might be the framework for a settlement is certainly not a publicly released thing that we saw. but there might be some sort of agreement for routinized ation of relations with areas of ukraine that are occupied. and finally, i don't, you know, the alliance can't give any indication that it was spanned later on. but i can assure you, we never thought ukraine to be ready for nato membership. i mean i, i don't think i'll live long enough to see it meeting the criteria for that, but what it's doing is forcing countries that are non, why, like finland and sweden into cooperation with nato. so you're kind of seeing

a self fulfilling prophecy here. you know, paranoia really is, it's more powerful. so this whole thing about the need for nato to stop expanding eastward is widely seen by people just as a, an anxiety from the russians about the wind of change. the, the moment is continuous blowing is word is going to arrival the shows of russia and this is exactly the existential threat for put in. he does not want to see genuine winds of change and democracy in the area. no, of course the kremlin argues that russia does have a democracy while the west democracies are not fully democracies or have many deficiencies. but that, of course just simply propaganda stuff. and that's not really the major issue. the major issue is rather geo political. also,

we're actually demographic because it's not only butch, and it's a large portion of the russian ruling, a week. ministers and stop russian diplomats turn to me even 20 years ago. don't worry, the russian population is contracting, but we're going to add up the half of ukraine, all of our rooms, half of a lot of people, $30000000.00 people joined russia and every, at least, and there are things going to be just fine, don't worry. so that's the, very much in the minds of the russian. not only the cram one but the entirety of the russian a week, or a big portion of it that west encroachments are going to ruin the idea. gathering all the russian speakers in one nation in one kind of empire and, and so that should be opposed with all possibilities of go means because that's the future of russia that the west wants to take away fast and does it also raise the

question about the need for nature itself to reinvent itself because the world is change and the need to have to understand ultimately that with the russia there's absolutely no way you can just go ahead to was a confrontation because it's not going to benefit anyone. i think you're right. this. busy this doesn't, you know, it's a very tragic situation, most of all for ukrainian and with no good outcome. in fact, i think very immediately we need to think, how can we prove, prevent this invasion invasions from happening and 2 things need to happen on the one hand, the u. s. and if the company wants to european partners, they need to engage in negotiations with russia. and 2nd of all, it needs to be there needs to be a very credible deterrence in place on, on the part of the u. s. and the european partners that moscow will

indeed pay a high price to move toward, to invading invading ukraine. it needs to be clear. this will not, not, not be just an easy invasion for the, for the criminal they'll, they'll pay a high economic price for this. of course, it's in the, in the situation with the sky high energy prices. this is not an easy situation for, for europe, but we do need to look at everything on, on, on the table in terms of deter, david, you talk about the nato as if it were a united stance, the united voice, but in a way or another many europeans, i think you cannot, we cannot indefinitely rely on the americans because we've seen former administration doing business with russians in a different way. is this something that put in can use to his own political advantage for more leverage? yeah, i think he's trying to drive which look good as achieving

a lot of the he already has in place a lot of the situations of united states fear during the reagan administration period of the cold war. and that is that he has a natural gas pipeline directly to europe, which right administration fought tooth and nail. so he has western europe that's economically dependent on russia. and he also has intermediate nuclear weapons present in europe with the screwdriver, missiles that, you know, can move back and forth. so these were, these were considered nightmare scenarios in the 90s. and the threat was that they would cleave europe in the united states and allow food to defeat europe in detail, which is, you know, kind of what he's doing. so the problem is, you know, the military capacity, you know, nato cannot muster 100 battalions to match the 100 times that boots mass on ukraine . so i don't think the west is looking at carrying this military. and as i said earlier, you know, we're going to reconstitute something like pershing,

that's going to take 15 years. you know, we shut down those assembly lines. so there's a really imbalance. you're on the military side in the paper of russia, and i think that leads the west to look towards the political and economic solutions. thank you. are already inclined to unfortunately we're running out of time and let's hope that diplomacy will finally prevail. pavel 2nd, holla, austin bennett, and david ross, i really appreciate you and i thank you and thank you for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website and other com for further discussion because our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash hey james. i saw you can also join the conversation on twitter. again, 530 from the house and the entire team here in the mike with julio because she to says he will bring a new form of capitalism. what does this mean?

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