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low in welcome to crossfire all things are considered i'm peter lavelle putin tells the us to come back to earth challenging washington's polar ambitions also calls to end the illegal war against yemen and why arming the can bring is a recipe for disaster as well as the return to trade wars. across talking some real news i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst and we have dmitri bobbitt she is a political analyst with spook nick international originally crossed locals in fact

that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it first of all we have to go to putin's speech on russia returning to nucular parity with the united states and we have to comment about the erosion of arms control regimes that are very important you know mark and looking at the major cable stations in the broadsheets they don't give much of a background why this speech was given and its significance go ok well there's two speeches the first part of the speech was a domestic state of the union speech saying this is what i've accomplished in my years in office so far this is what we haven't accomplished this is where we want to go this is our obstacles and this is how we think we can get there and it was a very good the majority of the speech it was a two hour speech the majority of it was the voted to domestic matters lots of facts and figures he's clearly on top of his game knows is economy inside out know is where he wants to take it. focus on. increasing g.d.p.

per capita and also science technology education spending. the other part of the speech was a reply to the u.s. it was a reply to two things one the u.s. unilaterally pulling out of the anti-ballistic missile treaty that was the bedrock of the nuclear. parity global strategy of mad mutually assured destruction and the other one was that pull out was under the george w. bush administration back in two thousand and one russia yelled about it at the time and said the measures they would take and they've now announced them the other thing was a direct response. to trump's new nuclear posture review which came out a few weeks ago we've talked about it on the show it has almost been ignored in the western press very very slight amount of news certainly nothing on the talk shows

and russia is extremely alarmed by it and they've made clear how alarmed they are by it and they made clear reiterating their strategy and i would i would say replying in kind to the new course it's completely differently that russia is aggressive on the international stage here but mark is absolutely right if we look at the larger pretty picture here we had parity was out of sync that was the entire purpose of these nuclear armaments agreements to keep a sense of balance to make sure there was massive destruction where you wouldn't attack another country on a first strike now what the russians have done with this speech and with the introduction of these weapons is to bring that balance back into into place absolutely and i agree with mark that speech was a response to the nuclear pulse to report the united states and i would like to point your attention to the fact that our region he was supposed to speak in december he postponed the speech until know why because it was

a response to your digestive nuclear posture right and that maybe i will disagree a little bit on nuclear parity it russia is not seeking to have the same amount of nuclear weapons conventional weapons will be the west that he really is impaired in the sense we're there we can give you discourage that have the sort of stability of any little bit of nuclear exchange is not to. be able to. be completely if there is to have enough capability to inflict and unbearable damage dissuading damage that's why i said you know showing all of these new weapons and their underwater drone he says that by law to go into. we produce a lot of them the aim is to the weapons that can overcome the american baby and. then we can inflict the damage markets deterrence is all about deterrence and that's what all of these weapon systems are all about i mean again it will be spun

in a very naive simplistic way but this these are all defensive measures of course i mean defensive measures to get past the u.s. anti-ballistic missile shield which russia is worried about because of first strike capability which u.s. geo political thinkers have been salivating at the thought and openly voicing that they now thought that they were getting nearer to a first strike capability and he's not just replying to the pulling out of the treaty he's replying to the deployment of anti ballistic missile shield sections in poland in romania alaska california south korea a nice easy in that he highlighted some thirty one destroyers a number of cruise ships that that form part of the money it just isn't going to worry is it going to work oh it is russia's reply going to oh yes of course the reason why is and this is

a key to the new arms race and for those who haven't been paying attention russia didn't start a new arms race the arms race has already been going on for two decades because of the u.s. pulling out of it all the major powers russia china india the e.u. the u.s. have all been developing hypersonic weapons underwater drones all of these things but it is much much cheaper easier to build and deploy missiles that can a vague missile defense then and then to create new missile defense that can counter those where it's just you just don't walk that stuff won't resolve the problem what we need a smart war heads and i think paradoxically it was a conservative speech putin was. that was to return to the safety to the period of say four years he said when u.s. has to come back to earth absolutely and he mentioned it in an interview that the united states actually destroyed the arms control system when they went out of

there and they believe me sort of creature signed in one thousand and seventy two the whole idea of the treaty it was it's a very american idea you know to call boys are facing each other with these folds none of them has avoided profer west so the wall stopped shooting because each of them on the stand is going to be the death for the importance of a.b.m. anti-ballistic missile treaty mark is that it was the foundation for all the other newsreel agreements ok the one that we're have one as the new start to grieve and this is one of the things that was meant to didn't mention in the speech he did reach out made it very clear to sit down pretty obviously with the united states here. to negotiate a new generation of agreements that that's very important something that wasn't mentioned as a very important cause of the anti-ballistic missile treaty was the foundation upon which these other agreements were built now one of the reasons for putin's announcement and this is a direct successor to putin's two thousand and seven munich speech

a speech that in order to understand modern geopolitics i think everyone needs to read he warned of the consequences then he's now warning what we've done and where we're at now and both of these two major treaties arms control treaties the intermediate range nuclear forces in the new start treaty are due to expire in just the next few years one thousand nine hundred. nineteen two thousand nine hundred eighty either one to two thousand and twenty one so he's actually making a plea here yes it down at the table he said directly you did not hear us then well listen to us now now before it's too late or it's too late to change gears here gentlemen i made a problem. to our viewers here that we would keep an eye on what's going on in yemen a grossly unreported story in western media deamon we have a move in the u.s. senate to call. the white house to stop its involvement

in the war against him and that's led by saudi arabia this is something that we talked about last week about the authorization of military force is going to go anywhere i'm afraid of the current it's going to continue and it's just unthinkable you know all of the western media is talking about eastern ghouta what you know ok maybe a few dollars and sell thousands of people in here and you have to weigh in to seven million people and sixteen million out of them have no access to potable water and insufficient food supplies and they're being borne by them also and we have to deal with. very systematic a blockade here implicate continuous since november two thousand and seventeen because not been which the u.s. has participated absolutely where does this come from is this. a red herring here that suddenly congress is waking up to its responsibilities about the authorization

of use of force essentially they have the right to declare war where does this come from no no i i'm afraid this is a partisan shot across the bow. first of all obama started this war as he went out into the yeah yeah he participated in saudi arabia never would have launched the war without us permission and help and constant arms supply and refueling in the air and sea for i.s.o. our intelligence special forces on the ground drones everything us has been kneedeep in this they're not just supporting they're an active military participant that was started by obama no one objected that no one objected to obama's proxy war in syria no one objected to his destruction of libya right now truck comes along continued. at this point he's only continued what obama has done and suddenly bernie sanders finds the courage with one another republican mike lee you know to stand forward and say oh we just remembered that we have. congressional

powers to declare war over the executive branch it's a shame you couldn't remember that just last night says he wanted to go there to have only that he would go there telling the world that they are they have some kind of conscience but it won't have any impact on policy you know why they suddenly just call it the conscience because the guardian suddenly reported that the soldiers opdyke getting portable water supplies that to get to schools and sometimes having diplomatic and they've been putting it all just says you know you've been to those who have been on t.v. who pointed to before they got in but before the guardian reported that there were no planes well they're always old and new just i mean for russia i called him an r.t. for keeping an eye on their twenty seconds mark you know finish up on yemen yeah i'm afraid that this resolution isn't going to change anything the war there is a quagmire saudis nice deep in it yemen it was already the poorest country in the

world but saudi arabia one of the world's now highest military spenders armed by the u.s. and all the other western powers can't defeat well it's and you've seen the crown prince's and due to be in the united states on the eighteenth i wonder how much how much western media will cover the yemen war when the crown prince is in washington we're going to go to a short break gentlemen after that short break we'll continue our discussion on some real news staying with already. i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the shaper money billionaire owners and spending to

the twenty million. so it's an experience like nothing else not to address i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy a great chance for. and makes this minute. welcome back to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter hall now to remind you we're discussing some real news. ok jamie let me go to you as i promised our viewers not only would we keep an eye on yemen to keep an eye on ukraine because ukraine is going to be very.