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for example the proxy war washington's go to tactic when faced with authority conflict in a part of the world it may be imprudent or unpopular for us to dive into directly whether it be our financing and training of the moderate rebels in syria who with alarming frequency ended up mysteriously disappearing with their us approved weapon the u.s. provided weapons into the hands of isis and other terrorist groups or the never ending debate over whether to hand over afghanistan to a private mercenary army or allow a barely functioning government to face the odds in a three way match against the taliban and isis proxy wars come with no shortage of risks not the least of them the american government's money arms and seal of approval are often bestowed on groups of misfits and renegades who only has only qualification is often just being in the enemy of my enemy friends i'm in that vein . troubling new has emerged from afghanistan where u.s. taxpayer money has apparently been flowing freely to local forces credibly accused of sexual assault against children for more on how these entanglements and

makeshift alliances affect our military strategy abroad we turn to retired brigadier general tony tate at. thank you very joining us i want to ask you first to start off is this special report by the inspector general's. focuses on how the pentagon the state department essentially circumvent the law requiring military funds to be cut off in instances where you know human rights violations and war crimes may be taking place over giving money to people that we suddenly realize these are good people we don't want to be given money or support these people in your experience are we generally is this something is this common are we generally too lax with how we've got our fighting partners abroad i don't think this is reprehensible it's just disgusting behavior for these seven incidents or six incidents that have been reported and i would say a few things are hundred seventy four thousand afghan national army soldiers that have been trained by the united states army and allies all the multinational forces

there twice so i think if we have six cases that's six too many of course but given the percentage when you're when you look at an army comes is just a cover cloth from the society from which it comes some some of these types of problems unfortunately are going to come with that so what the military does is they they've got a system for reporting and they've got a system for finding this and so general nicholson over there in afghanistan four star used to work for me when i was a deputy commanding general of all the troops there he's a great guy and he's four star general and i'm sure that he's going to get to the bottom of this now that's been brought to his attention and sometimes you know it's just a very bifurcated area fighting from valley to valley mountain to mountain and in. reporting structures and so forth unacceptable behavior and it's unacceptable that we continue support these searchers units or where these folks came from most of

them one of the concerns that comes up whether you're very supportive of war antiwar is in danger and our troops on the ground and one of these things that kind of comes up is that there's certainly a ject of human rights component here though there's also sort of more self interested cause for concern senator patrick leahy the architect of the legislation in question said to n.p.r. about the people sort of sweeping these abuses on the rug what he said was quote i don't think that they realize the united states ultimately gets blamed for this it becomes a talking point for our enemies so my question to you is do you think sort of ignoring them or sweeping them under the rug as often you know obviously these aren't but if it does sort of get swept under the rug does that ultimately. you know do you think ignoring those kind of things committed by allies may ultimately endanger troops on the ground but i can be right and i don't believe that were ignoring them i think the leaders in charge are going to do the right thing here and i think we have very open inspector general hotlines we have ways if there are

you know just take a look at the mirror that we're holding up the united states with the meat to movement and all of that and talk about sweeping under the rug with hollywood and so forth so i think the military at least has in place of reporting system and and that reporting system has been strengthened over the years with the integration of several different minority groups and so forth and it's not perfect but but it certainly is something that good commanders like general mick nicholson will take to heart and take corrective action immediately and follow the legislation and do what the right thing is but your question is does it reflect poorly on the united as i am that. the ammunition of course and the taliban al qaeda isis they're all experts at taking just a little slivers of information and then using that to radicalize others in as

propaganda so we want to try to eliminate as much of that as possible because any information we give the enemy they will expand imperio up and make it into something like i said one hundred seventy four thousand trained six on acceptable incidents six too many but when you do the math on that. you know it is a cut of the fabric of that society i think some would even argue and say look you know maybe we need to back away from kind of using forces to kind of in this kind of proxy war set up where it's like ok we can't really fully commit ourselves whether it be unpopular at home or whatever the reason would be so we're going to kind of you know flood money or weapons of support into groups. like syria you look at a lot of places around the world throughout history that ultimately kind of prove out . unsavory characters do we need to kind of rein in that idea that kind of go to plan i think what you really see here is we got a new national security strategy and it talks about protecting it and prosperity

and one of the areas within protection is to pursue enemies to their source and that's really good not the transnational threat of isis and al qaeda and the taliban and those types of borderless threats that we face and so the idea is it's better to fight them on their five yard line the use of football analogy than there are five yard line and so if we're going to continue to support our national security strategy we have to have some way of getting at the enemy at their source and whether that's use and u.s. special forces whether that's use and other countries special forces or proxy units or military contractors the end result is we want to eradicate the threat at the source and deny sanctuary if we if we cut through all the noise of the last seventeen years the primary mission has been to kill capture al qaeda and deny sanctuary because they planned these missions against during nine eleven. and

sanctuary in afghanistan that that was the very beginning and we sort of took our eye off that ball and i would agree. that we've really diverted especially with you know kind of the continuous selling of well ok now we need to be over here now we need right now we need to be over here and that's really been diluted over the years from what the original thing that we were told was what we need to go to iraq . and i think that that's part of the re that's where you get into trouble like this i think you make too many. enemies of my enemies who might not be the great people. i before we run out of time i want to get a slightly better now it is that since retiring you've been writing that and your latest book direct fire. tell me a little bit about it in the land of how your real world experience goes under i don't know everybody asked me that and you know i've always been i get asked how does a general become a fiction writer and then i answer how did a fiction writer become a general goes you know really as

a kid i used to read my mom saying write novels and all that and i loved i became very interested in the writing process and i just started writing and realized that you know people started liking it and when i got my first book deal back about ten years ago and i've had eight novels number nine comes out in may ten in october so i'm kind of starting to write him every four to five months and it's a lot of fun to create and direct fire is a story about our hero and national bestselling hero jake megan who is former delta force six foot tall native american from the outer banks of north carolina and this story has to go find the former the current joint special operations command commander who's been kidnapped and is being held in a mine ban in mind in the near asheville north carolina. erstwhile hackers and nefarious actors of syrian refugees that are now

terrorists want to attack and there's no connection to have zero connection that most of it was i think you said you know kind of a writer became a general military when you were growing up was that were you wanted to go was like i'm going to go military or did you lean more towards kind of things like that but now i'm going rather well both my parents were school teachers counselors and i was a pretty good athlete as a kid played baseball wrestled and i was recruited by west point to russell and i had this great affection for history growing up in virginia and going to all of the battlefields whether it's revolutionary war civil war and all of that and and so when west point called me about perhaps wrestling on the team there. you know i was very very interested and i already had a brother at the naval academy and so it made sense to do it and my parents of course were yes naval captain west point. but you know writing the direct fire the

fourth book in the series and and it's just something that i love to do and a great reviews from publishers weekly and if you think you've gone cold if you didn't end up as a military man would you have gone writing i think i probably would have been like my dad i would've been a high school teacher and he coached football i probably would have a baseball coach and i still would have written that would have been the one constant but you know i was super privileged a lot serve and lead america's finest in combat in the eighty second airborne hundred first airborne tenth mountain division and i think you know what having this discussion i know a lot of times like our viewers of the i want to push this person harder go after this and you know i was like to say that look you can disagree with the war doesn't mean you have to necessarily disagree with the people fighting it just try to have a good conversation together and try to find a good mutual understanding of where both sides are god i think that's why you have such a good membership. very much a trial always

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headlines on all of the international. the u.s. treasury names over two hundred russian politicians and business figures in the so-called kremlin. and washington stresses that no sign of being imposed against those on it so it was drawn up as part of a sanctions law signed last summer. the problem of coping in sport is much more widespread than previously thought that's according to

a recently released report that was withheld by the world and big agency for six years. and fifteen bracelets might be of soldiers worst enemy as they could reveal secret locations all around the world where troops are training. very well welcome to you from all of us here at the international in moscow we have your latest world news headlines. the u.s. treasury has released a declassified list of russia individuals as part of a sanctions law signed by donald trump in august the so-called kremlin list includes the names of one hundred fourteen politicians and nearly one hundred top tier business figures but the treasury denies those on the list are actually being sanctioned but in

a question about joining me live with details on all this so good morning to you know what is this document all about well it is quite a bit less to with a lot of names and includes almost all top russian politicians and businessmen including prime minister admitting it to the to foreign ministry said again lavrov and russian ministers now in tolerance in total there are one hundred fourteen politicians and ninety six businessman that was a businessman his fortune is over one billion dollars and they've got business in europe or in the united states are also courting to the u.s. treasury department. in the inner circle of the russian president now u.s. ambassador to russia has already called for of the russians not to react emotionally to this list as it is a quote not a saying since list and the inclusion of individuals in this report does not and in no way should be interpreted to impose sanctions on of those individuals still of

those documents as part of a same sions bill which was signed by u.s. president donald trump in august last year now kremlin spokesperson said that the list does not represent anything in particular but they will still look into its possible impact on the russian companies now some other russian politicians have reacted in quite a sarcastic way to this publication now some say that the u.s. intelligence decided to simply include affray one from the kremlin's phone book others say that the list reads like who is who for russia's political and business world so it is not a sanctions list just yet at the moment it's rather puts a black mark next to these names. it is not a sanctions list and the inclusion of individuals or entities in this report does not and in no we should be interpreted to impose sanctions on those individuals or

entities well again as i sat it as and not a sanctions list but it is a rather a blacklist of some sort or it alters within a culture of a thank you. now the criminalist was drawn up as part of a new sanctions law as medina was saying oh this signed by trump in the summer of last year however the u.s. president now says he does not intend to apply any new sanctions against russia this has certainly angered many democrats in congress voted almost unanimously for the package of restrictions last year. but this legislation and its implementation deterring russian defense. really didn't come into power with a burning desire for some reason to help russia out by easing up on the sanctions against them sanctions on specific entities when visuals will not need to be imposed. presidents talk about russia so consistently not.

by joining me live now in too long who is a political commentator to give us some insight on this latest lister thanks for coming on the program today so two hundred russian politicians are business figures to the so-called kremlin list why do you think these names were included in this so-called potential sanctions document. well there are tools. to look at it one is that it is a paper ration of a target list at the time it was signed the law was signed which was all goods last year. and of course sanctions were have always been contemplated out in fact implemented. on russia following the. station mir so this is nothing to you but on the other hand the extent of this list and the specific individuals of almost all the great and a good of russia the political hierarchy suggests that you know

so for the united states is taking this on a higher level so that's the first point is a prepared three black list as it were and which is where a very unsettling the second mention would just in the light of what is recently happening don't forget the united states has recently released a nationalist security strategy paper and donald trump actually chose to announce a himself. this as a new strategy targets russia as well as china specifically as america's enemy number one one one one of two. specifically measuring this two countries in a sense that. they perceive they perceive the countries are challenging the america only to world order and is using all sorts of means whether it is for. economic military financial or coercive or simply

coercion coercive power to euro american leadership so you would look at this release obvious national security paper and also are what donald trump said in. in a sort of various context where members want to point out. now you look at war the leading american think tanks it is a bipartisan common consensus that american leadership is facing is. in. action point a challenge which has not been urging before from rising china as well as mr like i'm so sorry for interrupting you i do apologize sincerely but i've got such little time here i want to ask you want top of this though because what do you make now all of the of the presidential spokes person actually dismissing the list now as meaningless well of course this in the sense that the america doesn't want to

immediately you know sort of go to war with russia and of course that doesn't want to cause any more immediate confrontation but the fact remains that there was such a list and also that the list is not scrapped it's there that means it is part of the perpetration of. our refereeing up of sanctions so it is almost at the publication of this list as always signs as a warning short. on russia and as a sense looking it in a broader picture it is a complete rebound a complete kind of upgrading of america's foreign strategy and also national security strategy targeting specifically russia and china missile and just one more question before it but must let you go a lot of headlines right now about this so-called top secret fisa memo that might be published in washington republicans are saying if this is published it could

ultimately destroy the whole trump russia collusion story is it possible if this fees or memo is published and it does start to destroy the troubled russia collusions story is that potentially why we're now seeing the trump administration backpedaling from no new sanctions against russia. well i don't think so on the contrary. ministration would just under a lot of pressure. point of a special investigator and so on so overall the moment. shows some kind of weakness towards russia this only adds to the pressure or more suggestion that there was some kind of collusion and i just want to pop occasional of this paper a service in some way to say hey you know we're we're not con to russia there was such a list i passed this law so this in a way acts as a kind of. perception of. collusion we russia has very interesting

indeed underlying a political commentator joining us here on r.t. international thank you very much thank you thank you. but it's not just sanctions that are being complicating the relations between russia and the u. west so of course have the allegations of. the house intelligence committee has just voted to release a secret memo that could potentially blow the lid off the whole trump russia collusion saga this memo should be immediately released to the american public i had that same shock feeling i was like wait a minute this actually happened from our justice department in this eppy first and loudest voices calling for transparency for integrity and openness within all levels of government there has been a real attempt to undermine this president we're not attacking the f.b.i. . we are.