he's down to his out long term idea that america has been ripped off you know and i think if you look at domestic politics and the kind of people you defined as or americans. he basically said he wants a message that you have been ripped off white american men in particular by women by minorities by immigrants and you're all stages of what he's going to do all restore american greatness and again when i just going to jump in here you know mailer oh i we have american i have a large brain research sort of after i want to short break we'll continue our discussion on american exceptionalism stay with.

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well it's got a lot of oil but there are many refineries and this is take the oil down there trying to levers are well positioned through the machinations of a crypto currency you know my suggestion is you know maybe build a few refineries you know sell a higher end product and put that money back into the economy in this way may take ten or fifteen years but you're not going to be taken over by some c.e.o. . we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing american exceptionalism. ok david you know ever since trump entered the oval office a lot of it's been trying to understand if there's a rhyme or reason to his foreign policy and i think that even on this program it's kind of coming together it seems to me it's kind of like going back to the nineteenth century great powers competition without all the values that were

pushed since the second world war it just it's just really kind of brute power and advantage and looking for competitive advantage and it's very brusque and it seems to appeal just as interested pointed out to us in the first part of the program it does appeal to his base go ahead david yeah i think you know it appears to be all donald trump but just as you know reagan and gorbachev came. out of the meeting and were told by their advisors no no no you can't get rid of nuclear weapons every time trump has a good idea like get rid of nafta and nato he talks to his advisors and it's off the table i think that it was actually an actual break with us exceptionalism is not on the agenda of donald trump or his advisors i mean it would look like joining the international criminal court joining the convention on the rights of the child joy in the united states is party to fewer major human rights

treaties then almost any other nation on earth it would mean giving up the veto at the united nations it would mean getting out of afghanistan there's a promise i'd like to keep i mean this is a guy who promised no more of these wars and bomb their family you know kill their families bomb the bleep out of them so it's easy to say he's keeping his promise because he promised a black and white one but the ones i'd like him to keep he's not keeping as well as you know a few like building the wall and locking up hillary that i don't necessarily need him to keep either but this is not this is a guy who thinks he's running the world and it's dangerous to what extent he is but he's not overruling the weapons dealers or the big players in washington d.c. you know yeah michael that seems to be very contradictory because he said in interviews that the united states shouldn't be the policemen of the world but in fact it remains the same ok am particularly you know i mean if you look at the korean peninsula i mean

a peace between the koreas denuclearization maybe the american troops could go home they'd be no reason from the be there and then the entire foreign policy elite has their hair on fire like oh my god please don't let it break out it'll change our world ok i mean it seems to me he's just going really up against the street against the the stream there and he keeps coming out with these ideas i mean you know i said earlier i mean you know threatening iran in the most. course way and then say i'd like to meet with no condition preconditions i mean the outside looking in finds that very very confusing i mean the ratings have already said through their aides is that while we sit down with someone that broke a country that broke a treaty that we just signed only a few years ago i mean i how does that show the american leading go ahead michael you know it wasn't a treaty and they didn't sign anything but that's that's a semantic problem we have an iranian oh well it's an international has agreed i mean they were it was a it's multilateral it wasn't just with the americans ok go ahead. but i

think the the the the point you're making is good and it's correct but if it stops and i think that's what we have to focus on is that the goals his foreign policy goals are as the professor correctly observed although i think for two reasons different than he observes that and that is that we are interested in better trade we are interested in exercising our trade power and to increase american presence and wealth at home american exceptionalism america first through trade treaties through trade work as opposed to naked aggression and use of foreign power which other presidents have used obama was soundly criticized on the right for wanting to meet with the iranians with no preconditions i find it interesting that my brothers on the right don't have a problem with trump doing the same thing i just i just throw that out as an observation well i think that you know but michael. but hang on michael i mean in

the same week basically threatening hostilities with the ran and then saying you want to meet with preconditions you don't have to worry about your friends on the left or right you have to try to figure out what the president is talking about ok that's not my point ok well this was the same. you know your point is right but this is the same tactic we took with north korea now little camera man blah blah blah you know terrible person going to face the earth you can blow us off a stare at the next thing in our meeting in singapore this is the art of the deal this is a part of the tactics of moving forward this is part of the noise involved in making the deal and making the negotiation and doing the work and it's trump he is unique he is rare he is something we haven't seen before the swamp can't make head or tail out of them and nor can anyone else and this goes back to my earlier point which was just buckle up just as you've observed many times peter buckle up and you're just going to have to wait to see how a poilus out for a swap will do their best to keep their arm around it i just don't know how it's going to work out ok brace for impact ok go back to you here then and then ok so

what is the justification for the united states being in afghanistan it's not bringing democracy there anymore apparently what what what how is what's the justification for the in the eagle behavior of the united states in syria or is it bringing democracy there anymore it's not apparently so why are they still there so i mean this makes it very patently obvious that just brute force beyond international law this is what trump it is opening up to go ahead. well i think you know when we look at the big picture of global change we have our whole range of new emerging powers some of which are very. recent military and they're looking around the world resources and they're looking to increase their him in order to protect their mind in. china for example is building the one built one road initiative which is going to be under right across from china all the way to spain and in the indian ocean you've got non-state actors like

isis and other organizations also challenging. allies and other regimes as well and i think what really president trump is trying to do is is effectively grapple with the same problem. which host cole or presidents of. to try to outline which is the whole world environment has changed the big difference i think with president from he doesn't really look at the idea. of building an orderly system or ordered a rules based system or rather he wants to open it up you want to loosen it up and he wants to make it more transactional but i think what he's trying to do it's look we've got this big international series of regime it's america's been ripped off it's going to much it's has too many large deficits. and what we're going to do is we're going to let sun nationals and try to read negotiate. and effectively

of ordinates everybody else ok not that we the big grown ok although again like i said it looks like it's going back to the great powers of the nineteenth century without all of the rhetoric at least it's more transparent david you you mentioned russia is it really worth it for trump to go down this path that we had the helsinki summit i was critical of the president's delivery at the press conference like i was in singapore is well it's not his forte he's got to work on his game there and then he wanted another summit and then walked blocked it back the russians and invited him to moscow why is this so important to him is it a campaign promise or is it just you know the media hates it when he does it and that he just pushes back to show that i am president i'm going to do what i want to do what is his fascination here go ahead david. well i think there is there's all kinds of pressure on him to meet with and work with russia and to not do so and to

treat russia as having attacked the united states and started a war and to engage in war with russia and everywhere in between i think that it's appropriate that the united states and russia as the major new. earlier weapons powers meet and get rid of those damn things before they destroy us i think it's critical for the united states and russia as two of the nations doing the most to destroy our natural environment to meet and start reversing all the policies david that's not so much on the agenda. i mean complete agreement with you in english they would they would hear what why it seems to me that. trump engagement with russia should come out very clear twitter is fine with me and i need to deal with a lot of near putin to sign a new arms control agreement it's about to expire in two thousand and twenty one this is what's most important to all of humanity why can't he just write that i mean that is very straight forward and you know what david it's transactional what

trump is supposed to be all about go ahead david well it would make perfect sense it would fit with some of his agenda of body it is not where he comes from it's not something he knows anything about it's not something he's hired anybody to keep around him who would advise him to do and it's you know the got the us media and the democrats and half the public screaming at him not to do anything cooperative with russia even if it kills us all so it's not shocking that he hasn't come out with that position of but he should eat and well there's good in the world and russia should be pushing him in that direction ok all right michael. where does he go from this from his russia gambit now i mean he's put it off until next year is that because of the midterms it's because he can't do anything transactional because just like david said perfect crystal clear even trying to save humanity

he's the boogie man donald trump is evil incarnate even if he wants to save humanity that's a problem in the united states that's a problem with american exceptionalism forty seconds to you michael my friend last word. real quick and i promise to stay and save my time what the trump never telegraphs what he's going to do will make promises in a campaign context he'll have elude to things in a domestic policy context he's never going to say up front what he's going to do it's one of his huge criticisms of his predecessors and so because he hasn't said it's there doesn't mean it's not going to be there and he's had some surprises foreign policy wise stuff no one expected but it was always part of his design and i think that we just have to buckle up and wait well you know that's why i call you one of my donald trump sharpers that was a very good answer i like that that's all the time we have gentlemen many thanks to my guests in washington charlottesville and in northwood and thanks to our viewers

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is a busy monday for your worldwide headlines welcome to the program here on r.t. international. the syrian government says it is ready to recapture the last major rebel stronghold in the country. has been deploying additional forces on the frontline of the enclave says it's still willing to pursue a course of reconciliation however that idea was snubbed by the key militant group controlling the area. the group's chief has warned other factions from taking part in any talks with damascus.

meanwhile the russian defense ministry has warned that militants in preparing a provocation moscow says it has intelligence that jihadists are intending to stage a chemical attack and then lay the blame on the assad government. a strike on capers eiter using poison laden missiles is planned within the next forty eight hours that some players outside the region are preparing yet more provocations on syrian soil involving chemical weapons with the aim of destabilizing the situation there and undermining the positive dynamics of the ongoing peace process. more the missive warns that it's the white helmets pro rebel group that will be there first with cameras and tweets as they usually are whenever there were rumors of chemical attacks and we reached out to them for comment and as is also usual the u.s.

and its power stabbed ready with guns drawn we now see plans for the syrian regime to resume offensive military activities and it would. we are obviously. about the possibility that it may use chemical weapons again if the syrian regime uses chemical weapons we will respond very strongly it's getting very hot in the area america's just pulled up another guided missile cruiser packed with tomahawk missiles the weapon of choice when attacking syria also u.s. strategic bombers heavy duty stuff have just arrived in the neighborhood the russians also acting moving more and more ships to the mediterranean room it's a submarine stool and it's cool dreadfully reminiscent of what happened

last time. neal weeks before the alleged chemical incident in ghouta the incident that provoked a british friends and us. well media weeks before that the russians warned the rebels were preparing to stage a chemical attack now they're warning it will happen it. then which begs the question why oh why would ask who has almost won this war why would he launch a chemical attack and invite disaster now there is no value for syria or its allies in using chemical weapons against any of the terrorists syria

is already winning syria has already won along with its allies along with russia and with iran and hezbollah they have already essentially defeated the tech feed a terrorist cleanup time the other thing you've got is we have so many times been told that the organization for the prevent prohibition of chemical warfare has emptied syria of all of its chemical weapons this happened a few years ago but we keep getting told syria is making chemical weapons. u.s. intelligence agencies are reportedly complaining that their kremlin moles have suddenly gone quiet comes amid a host of fresh russian meddling allegations in the media ahead of the american midterm elections daniel holkins picks up the story. less than two years after the twenty sixteen us presidential election the russians are at it again the n. word this time it's the us mid-term elections in the crosshairs of kremlin meddling

another russian attack on our elections a serious warning about russian meddling in future us elections there are also hacking or attempting to hack political campaigns russia is at it again it's clear for all to see what happens after all how can one refute such a mass of sources intelligence sources tell him b.c. news there is no doubt the russians are trying to influence the presidential election a source tells n.b.c. news law enforcement and democratic sources telling c.n.n. . sources two sources with links to the counter intelligence community anonymous sources according to anonymous washington post source now we may not even have those to rely on according to the new york times they've gone to ground gone quiet what's happened there could be a couple of reasons it's ok the times reassures us they've not been killed risk yet although says the article putin is intent on killing traitors and the russians

are willing to kill sources perhaps they say the assassination attempt on double agents script file has affected flows of intelligence as with the meddling accusations minimal evidence was also enough to expose the kremlin's hand in that case russia has long arms russia has lots of tentacles we imagine that they will continue to have an interest in our elections but also many other nations' elections as well we continue to see a pervasive measures in messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken and divide united states intelligence blackout could also be down to a fall in u.s. operative numbers in russia the russians kicked out a whole bunch of our people laments a former cia officer a reference of course to moscow's retaliation after dozens of russian diplomats were first expelled from the united states the russian meddling saga even has the us president himself worried. i'm very concerned that russia will be fighting very

hard to have an impact on the upcoming election based on the fact that no president has been tougher on russia than me they will be pushing very hard for the democrats they definitely don't want trump but those are named officials can explain the logic the kremlin doesn't want a specific outcome any more broad chaos is apparently the aim despite no hard evidence of meddling past or future it seems the narrative is getting old unnamed sources can only sound convincing for so long no no the rusher informant's they were definitely in a u.f.o. crashed or was a meteorite this is so confusing what the media told us imagineer of france whisper in the ear of the new york times sources say moore times makes up stories what if as endless anonymous sources allege russia isn't busy tilting elections

sowing discord or spreading chaos what if russia isn't doing anything at all that would never make a thrilling read. to us nationals in vietnam have been sentenced to fourteen years in prison for attempting a coup ever among twelve people sentenced all of the members of the provisional national government of vietnam which was declared a terrorist organization by the countries authorities back in january of course the war in vietnam ended more than four decades ago but apparently for some the struggle is ongoing. the vietnam war one of the world's bloodiest conflicts and the american army's biggest defeat to ideologically opposed blocks in two decades of fighting came at a cost of fifty six thousand u.s. troops all in a bid to overthrow the communist regime of north vietnam but the casualties among

civilians were much greater at least two million people died in the war after hopes of tightening a democratic grip across the vietnamese state slipped away and up to one hundred forty one billion dollars was spent on military operations the us folded to what had been an exhausting war at home and abroad. in one thousand nine hundred seventy three thousands of antiwar protesters would later contribute to the end of u.s. military involvement and two years later the south surrendered with vietnam forced to unite under a socialist flag. however it would take years for vietnam to heal from the wounds of the us campaign. napalm bombs toxic herbicides left the country scarred. and its citizens suffering. fast forward to twenty eight and us vietnam relations have turned a new leaf. even prospering.