until the beginning of september until the beginning of october, when europe will dig in for the heating season. oh, these geopolitical games are geopolitical blackmails, they are so interesting. sometimes it is. now let's talk about china. you have already mentioned it a little. i want to develop this topic more. also in their columns, the journalists said why they published the data that china continues to sell semiconductors to russia despite the sanctions, and something seems to be aluminum oxide, which is used in military industry and now i would like to ask you to show us exactly this graph, if we have it from a sharp journal, yes. please tell me why china, have you already started to answer a little? but why does china so openly ignore these american sanctions? introduced here is only related to the economy or is it still related to politics hmm maybe even some military

topic is related i mean the issue of taiwan , that is, we will help russia and then it will help us or something, how can you comment on this and in this ideological plan, because if we compare what russia asked china and what china is asking russia, well, excuse me, heaven and earth, russia asked china, well, literally cartridges, russia asked china to provide modern drones and modern artillery systems and a counter-battery system, china in return provides russia with materials so that it can be used on non-existent machines. well, because the machines for processing these materials in russia are literally on the fingers of one hand, because it is mainly western equipment that russia is simply unable to reproduce therefore, in essence, with these steps, china is showing the states that it is good. we are currently conducting trade negotiations with you and are quite successful. by the way, china and america have been mutually removing customs

restrictions for the second month in a row, an amendment of a few percent, but these few percent are in the volumes of the united states and china - these are billions and tens of billions of dollars. that is, we are negotiating with you. we have refused any future contracts with russia. in fact, the chinese have terminated many billion-dollar contracts with the russians that were until 2030. the chinese have stopped to buy russian futures, chinese banks simply stopped giving credit to russian businessmen, and therefore, against this background, these deliveries are a trifle. but why are they being made so publicly? china has already clearly stated that the second cold war has begun, and in this cold war, we are confronting beijing through washington and such cannot ideologically retreat like this, despite the agreements with the americans, must show that this position of ours is what we call alternative democracy, this is the chinese model of leadership that we planted we will be all over the world and this is what everyone told the child that he will lead the world to a bright future and america is a rotting pseudo-democracy giving capitalism therefore it

is not even so much a political, not only a military struggle, but already a struggle of ideology, you and i are returning again to the time when there was an ideology more dictatorial, it happened to be more democratic, and they used the examples of how organized systems were at war in the international arena. see also about taiwan. please tell me whether china can now use the russian war in ukraine in order to somehow well, i don't know whether to start a war against taiwan and start to take it away as they threaten but at least somehow more actively work something in this direction i think he already used it and did very wisely without starting anything because let's remember with you the situation at the beginning of the invasion when in fact, the first weeks, when, unfortunately , the situation around kyiv was very difficult, the situation was difficult in almost all our regions, and every day in the sky of taiwan several squadrons of the aviation of the chinese liberation army and taiwan was actually blocked by the chinese fleet and all this time china was ready for an invasion, but

as soon as the west began to impose serious sanctions , as soon as we started talking about the rammstein system, as soon as it became clear that a land visa would be introduced and that the west would stand with ukraine for life at least the united states at the same moment biden makes a statement that they will defend taiwan to the end on a level with ukraine, in fact at this moment everything has been understood in china and we have hardly seen each other for almost a month and a half chinese fighters and attack aircraft in the sky over taiwan, we do not see any threats, and even those exercises that were supposed to be held last month came in a rather limited form, that is, in fact, russia became a test sample for china, it became a litmus test for russia, they saw on the example of russia how the west will react to any attempt to change the borders and it was russia that provoked the west to a tougher response, including china, and thus china used the invasion of the russian federation into ukraine. he simply understood that it is not yet time, well, that is, it can be said that

despite the ideology that we share in china, there are still intelligent people who at a certain time did not make mistakes that could have been made so absolutely correctly and you know on the one hand it is good that they are there on the other hand, it will be much more difficult to fight with them in the future. well, well, but this is in the future, now we have the current situation, see another article, this time from the foreign policy of fiona hill, an adviser to three american presidents, this is barack , george bush, jr., barack obama, etc. donald trump said in the article i want this article to be shown to us now that the event is in a hurry because the event is running out of time, but also after that it is also in a hurry because the 2024 elections are ahead and that in the event of failure, trouble may await it, mr. oleksandr, do you share ms. hill's opinion that in the short term, putin may

have problems in russia even if he loses in ukraine, and that is why he wants to do something by 2024. in fact, i simply share this opinion . unfortunately, i don't know, well, i read another argument of pchilka but well, i have absolutely adequate reasons why you should hurry later, look, now it’s going on, if i’m not mistaken, on the 144th day of the three-day capture of kyiv . as you can see, this is, well, in the center of kyiv, we have music playing. the sun is shining and there is more traffic on the street than there was before the war, that is, despite on the fact that the russian media is closed as much as possible , despite the fact that the russian leadership assures its people as much as possible that they will reverse victory well, the question simply arises and how long can this last ? well, is the russian army really that weak? is it not only big losses have to be borne, that is, one way or another, but the question arises not only and not so much in the population, but in putin's regime itself, that is,

many very oligarchs - this is what we said at the beginning of the war, and it is finally starting to show , they are losing money much faster than expected they are losing prospects much faster than they wanted, prospects and opportunities for development, their children are losing their future, their capital, that is, relatively speaking, if putin himself is ok with the situation that is developing for the collective the situation is definitely not okay for putin, and that is why the question arises. in such a dictatorial regime, he is not so worried about elections. it seems to me that he is worried about the whole situation of the impossibility of implementing his plans as he wanted. resources to ensure that these vassals perform their functions and, accordingly, to preserve the stability of the regime, and for now these expenses can just put it in his wet corner. well, do you believe that these vassals, i mean among the businessmen who, ah, well, own a share in the russian business of

billionaires, that they are beginning to be dissatisfied, no , at the beginning there were these notes of dissatisfaction, you could hear them, deribaska spoke there, others spoke but don't you think that they have something with putin there are still more chances to make money than without putin, i mean in russia and that they still do not represent a threat to him, in fact, this is a good question, but i would cite several indicators of markers that indicate that the system is starting little by little to change, let's remember the last meeting of the security council and the huge changes in the cabinet of ministers and the huge changes in the security council that took place, that is, in fact, there is a reshuffle again, and again putin is bringing his people closer to him, that is, former spies or current spies. accordingly , we saw after that quite sharp statements that his obviously this classic map of dictatorial regimes begins again when intelligence begins to fight with the military, to fight secretly but still fight for certain influence and here on the basis

it's not even so much business as just the intra-system horizons and you can draw conclusions that putin needs to somehow change the system and then you understand about earnings. as soon as the new putin comes, they wanted to change the position of president to the position of ruler. i would say it would be better to replace the position of the president of russia with putin of russia it would somehow make more sense, and maybe even the supreme putin of russia, the new supreme putin. he will be obliged to pay these oligarchs , pay these control keys much more more than then the current one just to win their loyalty again. therefore, the big question is which putin, old or new, will we be more profitable? well, that ’s interesting, let’s ask you one more question, but there was already information in the american media about the trade in american weapons in ukraine, that is, the weapons that we receive from the united states of america from the countries of the west and we will be with it somehow we sell it as an informational and psychological

operation of russia, and in fact it is the same here, i can simply cite my own experience we are with colleagues from our well let's say to the battalion of information troops, they are very clearly not lazy. they appeared at about the same time, it was two weeks ago, in several military publications at once. and the same message regarding the same system, i.e. regarding the khybars, first of all, the french had it regarding the caesars, the bulgarians had it regarding the rsv of british reversibility, and the turks too , that is, in fact, we are really dealing with a planned operation with a planned range of news because one weapon system, one time of publication, one source and one way or another well, my opinion is that and it is quite well-argued that it really was russian ibsent thank you mr. oleksandr thank you as always for your move for your

professional opinions and comments that helped to understand the sometimes difficult questions for me and also for our viewers. ukrainian prisma politicians talked about a lot of interesting things, in particular, about the visit of the president of the united states, jobiden, to the middle east, but i was most interested in it, and i asked this as the first question : is there any reaction in the united states of america, even the removal of bakanov and venediktov from office? well, how did you see what mr. oleksandr said about the fact that even in the united states of america, even if they somehow understand it before bakanov, then before the suspension of ms. venediktova, they have such strange feelings. they they don't fully understand what was happening, we on the espresso tv channel will obviously continue to monitor

the development of such a well, very interesting, er, and situation . i am ready to join my second guest - this is oleksandr sherba, diplomat, extraordinary plenipotentiary envoy of the first class, extraordinary plenipotentiary ambassador of ukraine in austria 2014-202021. greetings, mr. oleksandr. thank you for joining and thank you for agreeing to answer the questions that i have for prepared for you. well, to clarify, look at this week. i'm starting from the beginning. this week , a new rammstein forum is planned in the usual format - 4. these are friends of ukraine, the states, friends of ukraine are gathering to discuss military aid . for us, look back to rammstein ii. many experts said that rammstein 3 for us was,

to put it mildly, not quite as we would like it , that is, the decisions made on it did not suit us very well or should we expect something breakthrough from rammstein 4, will it be just uh, over time, these breakthroughs will still be less or not, or is it necessary, well, the main breakthrough happened when the head of the pentagon said that we are working for the victory of ukraine uh, unfortunately, the german chancellor still says uh- that we are working so that russia does not win and there is such a fine uh-uh line between these two uh-uh statements but thank god that uh in the format of rammstein the united states sets the tone as we see the united states gradually not as fast as we would like as it should be, but they still move to the side providing us with the necessary weapons. first, these are the streets of javelins, which we fought for

. of medium range now. i hope they will be long-range. no, at first, none , then suddenly they appeared, and i hope that just as the jagulins broke the course of the war, in the first stage of the war, in the first stage, now the high-mars will be absolutely to play a key role in the second stage of the war, in particular at the liberation of the kherson region, that is, there will not be such a reduction of this aid, no, as a reduction, i see that the united states is not in any way changing its

course, maybe not from every rammstein we will receive something absolutely breakthrough, but for us , in principle, it is not necessary something absolutely programmatic for us we need something absolutely specific let mercedes shoot the better, i hope that the united states will press those who doubt it and everyone who thinks that russia simply does not win, they will still press to the point that to provide e-e weapons with maximum range and maximum power, in principle, this is an american decision. i think it will be accepted. by the way, about hymers, long-range hymers, you said that you hope that they will be provided to us, do you hope that you know that they will be provided to us ? it is very limited. i am, unfortunately, a former diplomat. i do not belong to this circle, but what

i hear, in principle, gives me reason to hope, well, that's good, it's good because, you know, there are no former diplomats, diplomats are people connections, and that's why i asked you this in connections that will help us, for example, understand something better than someone else, let's listen to mr. oleksandr two direct languages, then i will ask you a question. first, it will be a statement by the president of france , emmanuel macron, and then a statement prime minister of hungary viktor orbán, well, let's listen after that question, russia uses energy and food as means of waging war, so i believe that we need to prepare for a scenario according to which we will be forced to completely do without of russian gas, and it seems to me that this is not a rhetorical scenario to pass the peak loads in winter, we need to reduce consumption because we have to support other europeans

. the war continues not only on the fronts, but also in the world economy, including the european one, and part of this war is the rise in energy prices. well, mr. oleksandr, two radically opposite statements the heads of the two countries that are members of the european union and that are members of nato in the first case macron understands that winter can be difficult but somehow he encourages the europeans and asks them to prepare for this difficult winter in the second case the prime minister of hungary says that well i'm sorry, but everything is lost. that is, it's a horror, what awaits us, it will be a horror. we don't want this. well, we don't want this war . we distance ourselves from this war, and it's obvious, if we paraphrase his words, then we generally distance ourselves almost from ukraine. if there are such polar opinions in europe so what should we expect

from this europe in the short term? isn't the support for europe weak in europe? a soft country, as far as russia is concerned, orban, and modern hungary and foreign policy, unfortunately, are seen as a floor below which, in principle, the european idea cannot fall, and that's why orban, well, we're not we have no illusions about this man about his position regarding what to expect from him and what macron says is much more interesting and much more representative, it is necessary to understand the following thing : well, germany and austria are closer to me than

france, so i will rather talk about germany, although in principle the situation there well, the situation in germany is worse than in france. in germany, germany decided to completely refuse to become completely independent of nuclear energy and for a couple of years completely dependent on russian gas, or 80% dependent on russian gas, and nevertheless how painful it is to realize what a danger it was, despite how polite it is to go through the severing of these erroneously established ties. to play russia itself which is so clumsy how rude so much i don't know

behaves offensively towards germany france yesterday i read uh world uh and the russian representative at the osce who wrote well we still don't know why we want to introduce nord stream 1, but if it's possible that the germans and french want to introduce north stream 2, then maybe we'll give them a little gas . germany and france and this is, in principle, the tandem that makes up modern europe of the modern european union, at least it sets the tone in it. it is moving in the right direction. although, as i said, too slowly. look, you served your time in austria. you know this country well and obviously you know them well. please tell me now, against the background of the russian war in ukraine, or not before, do they still have any sentiment towards

russia? which is difficult to eradicate, even with the actions that russia is currently taking in ukraine, no, it is everywhere people are unprincipled, unscrupulous, without honor , without intelligence, i once noticed that i once wrote a book and there i wrote what to believe, er, i am a lot of reasons, because to believe lies, namely greed, er, stupidity, er, cowardice, er, some kind of moral blindness, and only one reason why not to believe a lie because it is a lie and there are people who even now continue to believe russian lies because yes, they are comfortable, but the vast majority, i look at my austrians , with whom i worked for 6.5 years, and they understood everything internally, but somewhere for one of these listed reasons, they still gave some credit to will trust putin's russia as well, i see how much

this war was a spit in their soul, how much russia lost these people who, despite everything, believed in russia, you understand, and i think that in germany, as i saw, it is still the same. when i look at in germany, and therefore in the entire european union, the majority of germans still say we will support ukraine we must support ukraine, do you understand this, velichel, as the germans say, it is a change of times, the website of the ministry of internal affairs and this change of times is really coming, and what russia has lost as a result of this war, it is making up for. well 10 years, at least for sure , and maybe even more, god forbid, god forbid, as much as possible so that she does not make up for it, oleksandr, i have a question for you as a professional diplomat, because you are

the only one who can answer it in this case see this question a few days ago, the american embassy appealed to its citizens who are in the territory of ukraine to urgently leave the territory of our country. when is this done according to the canons of diplomacy, if there are any such canons, and somewhere, well, there are canons of diplomacy, but is it written in them when there is a divorce some data about the fact that there really is a real threat, or maybe it was like that before the start of the war, when the americans asked their citizens to leave the territory of our country, now when they usually say that, oh well, you know, it's hard to use the word usually when it comes to war, but uh, as i understand it, the americans explain that it was a routine reminder that it is still too early to relax in ukraine. moreover, i think that it is possible that they saw some influx of americans here, but i would not rule out that

the whole situation is really developed in such a way that putin has no choice but to start bombing peaceful peaceful cities so that people start forcing the political authorities in the country or making compromises with russia. i think even if he starts these carpets are carpets bombing, he will again see how unbreakable ukraine is and what he once again prophesied by evaluating, but, well, americans, americans, there was a huge scandal in trump's time when they found out for what reasons the americans died in libya, although there were, uh, there were serious signs that uh, what it is dangerous for the americans even now. they often blow on the cold to

avoid getting burned, so maybe it was just this case, but in the end, i will tell you 100% on the ground. well, let's hope that they are blowing on the cold and somehow try to protect themselves. of citizens who are in the territory of our country, mr. oleksandr, one more question today and there is a debate going on. last week, the european commission proposed the seventh package of anti-russian sanctions , today there is a debate going on, but on wednesday this package, well, they can approve it, there will definitely be no gas, there will be an embargo on gold, again a lot very uh, other uh, individual sanctions. please tell me if it's still the same. do we have any confidence that on wednesday this package will be assembled , the seventh package will come into effect, you see, it's not so large-scale for russia er, it’s a really large-scale issue, it’s oil er and gas er, gold well, they will find ways to sell

er gold to dupes er, this is not what is called a killer package of sanctions, and frankly for me a much more alarming bell was the fact that a russian deputy thought that he supported the war, plotnikov. it seems that his daughter published a photo on instagram of how they are having fun in italy and croatia, so here we need to beat with all our might so that all representatives of the political class of russia, all their members families so that they would be as infected as not to let them into any decent country where freedom and democracy are important and not just like that, and this is what absolutely outraged me. this is a message to his colleague in brussels, or he showed it to the europeans. what kind

of sanctions are these if criminals, while their country is bombing civilians in vinnytsia, when we hide a four-year-old girl, oleksandr, 15 seconds? criminals can rest in italy, this is impossible. well, thank you. thank you, mr. oleksandr, for your professional opinions and analysis. it was oleksandr shcherba, diplomat, extraordinary plenipotentiary envoy of the first class, extraordinary plenipotentiary ambassador of ukraine in austria 2014-2021. well, due to lack of time, i am forced to conclude the world during the war talked about today's program with its guests, but the most important thing i wanted to talk about and received from them, and i hope you also received professional answers, remind us, you can watch what in monday at approximately 12:00 p.m. on the

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