and i. feel. like you know we started it as a. young. least seven people are killed and thirty five left unaccounted for after an apartment block collapses following a devastating gas explosion in the russian city of med need this course. britain and france are to step up joint patrols in the english channel after a spike in the number of illegal immigrants trying to get to the u.k. over the past two weeks. thirty russian children returned home safely after being released from an iraqi prison where they were held with their

allegedly ice a link. and you are looking at live pictures from new york where they are getting ready to bring in the new year in just about an hour's time you can see the excitement there as people are anticipating the bringing in two thousand and nineteen the world welcomes the two thousand nine hundred in style with new year already here in most of the globe there is just one hour to go before the clock strikes midnight in new york where you're looking at live pictures. and toronto in canada.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered. welcome to the crystal ball edition of crosstalk what can we expect in the new year we have a great lineup of guests telling us what they think. prost talking the new year i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark slow to he's an international affairs and security analyst and we also have to be he's a political analyst with sputnik international rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it we have a number of other guests on the program here but i want to go to you first mark here a lot is is in the brew right now a lot of stories bleeding from two thousand eight hundred into two thousand and nine what's the most important story you're going to watch even more from two thousand and seventeen into two thousand and eighteen we were concerned about four main stories going into the year the conflicts in syria and ukraine geo

politically the political witch hunt inquisition against trump in the united states and the political crisis in the e.u. with bragg's it and you know all their political crises against you know the government in brussels across the board and going into two thousand and nineteen those are the four big issues again none of them are resolved and every one of them actually looks to be worse going into the new year and the other two things i would highlight the new coming trends. the threat of the new arms race the emergence of you know what military people are calling hypersonic war whether we're talking hypersonic weapons the autumn ization of the battlefield with a gun on top of us killing vehicles and so on and the other big story i would think

to keep track of is the fragmentation and nationalization or blockages ation of the internet the golden age of the internet is over and we're going to see a warring internet always always great to hear your often is a marker. but margaret just numerated them. most important subjects so i will concentrate on one that for me was pivotal you know how far can the so-called liberals go he could be saying to all vs breaches of human rights to all various cases of extreme nationalism and then here i have a few examples of the first one is their unwavering support of the european union for poroshenko the regime this year despite the fact that poroshenko just everything that was against the principles of freedom he nearly shot down that traditional ukrainian orthodox church replacing it by a new one with the state involvement he started a campaign to uncover state officials in ukraine who have relatives in russia this

is the warst feature of started using you know when relatives abroad was a risk factor than in the united states how the democrats the new hall they all wanted to put. in jail and keep a lot of sports it will seem pitiful posted for dollars on the internet with members of the national rifle association so how far can these presumably liberal you know you know in accepting an agreement in the left never knows when it's gone too far he want to bring in john john laughlin in paris john is a good friend in the long standing guest on cross talk you you've heard a lot of optimistic words from a demon mark here and i think you're going to continue the trend john what's the what's the state of the e.u. going into two thousand and nineteen we still have the yellow vest in france and briggs it isn't is looming. but i very much agree with what dmitri has just said

how can the liberals go because for years now i've been saying that the european union and its member states are in a drift towards totalitarianism and the permitted margin of debate is narrow in every day particular of course where nothing to do with the. sure is concerned but you know when people ask me about the future of the european union i'm reminded peter as perhaps you are from your your student days as a political scientist at the debate that took place between the right wing and left wing americans on whether or not the soviet system could be reformed and the right wingers said that it couldn't and lead democrats a left wing it said that latin american dictatorships who america supported by contrast could reform and that analysis turned out to be correct the right wingers were right to say that the dictatorships could reform but that the soviet system could not and i think the same analysis applies to the european union you

asked me in your question about the the yellow vests movement back home was the last great hope for reform in the european union and he's blown it this is one of the biggest social movements in france for many years and he has clearly shown himself not surprisingly to be incapable of reforming like the front of the european union and the reason why the european union car formed is exactly the same reason why the soviet union couldn't be reformed both the european union and the soviet union are trapped inside an ideological minus set which makes them intellectually incapable of reforming and that mindset is of course post nationalism globalism and so on and michael is the greatest example of this he thought that with that force of his personality and his good looks and whatever he could change things but since he never wanted to change the most important things namely the european policy the euro and so on his country and the rest of the european union just like the soviet union will remain mired in decline for as long

as it takes to break up ok mark let me go to you how do you react to went to john laughlin had to say yeah i don't see that mccrone was ever intended as a voice for reform i think he was more intended as a last desperate hope. of the technocrats and brought ols to buttress the status quo to prevent a radical reformist such as as the pen from gaining power with the collapse of the socialist party due to the unpopularity of the law and. mccraw in the literal ross trial banks there was brought up as the last desperate hope and he has failed utterly and we will see the results of the front and the far left in france only game we've seen mccrone fail john laughlin let me go back to you. does that mean on the other side of the equation that we will see some kind of

success of the yellow vests. not necessarily i mean the problem with the yellow vests is of course that it's a disparate movement and it doesn't have a structured leadership and i'm strongly of the view that political movements only succeed when they have very tight and very professional organizational structures. yellow vests is just one of a large number of of cries of anger and frustration all of which have have or ever have come about repeatedly in recent french history when i say recent i'm referring particularly to the last twenty years to the period in which the euro was introduced and one of the reasons why i think the yellow vests unfortunately might fizzle out is that the indoctrination about europe has been so strong that they haven't as far as i'm aware managed to focus attention on the real cause of their decline in living standards which of course is the single currency

the single currency has proved to be completely murderous for the economies. of the for the peripheral common economies of europe in other words for all the economies that are not part of germany austria or the netherlands you know for twenty years italy for example has had zero percent growth you can't country that way and so because they're not focusing on the essential i fear that they might fizzle out you know but at the same time i agree with john larkin there but at the same time the establishment the status quo we've seen it's vulnerabilities here and dance right. or not organized. if they do get organized i would be interested in what kind of ideology that they would be pitching ok because this is exactly what the liberals want they want is some kind of artificial opposition and they're going to get it well i think it will be unwise for their yellow vests right now to come up with their certain ideology i think. it

will it will need a lot of work to form some kind of what the alternative ideology i think russia if it decides not to imitate the west but rather to lead the way may help you know and develop these kind of ideology but since i don't want it to be all doom and gloom there was van. in there in there i would go in a year you know president also there was invited to a segment meeting of the arab league by none other than the tunisian president and the tunisian president could not do it without the brutal from the european union and lost like also from the united states so for the first time and that damned regime change crushed i can great you all congratulate you on this i think it's an important event of the year ok i mean the finish up in this far block you were john markland john any other how is the how is it a hard brags that affects the european union the rump european union what we had

about one minute left go ahead well like dimitri i'm optimistic i think that because of the excellent news it's very bad news for the european union if there's no deal it means there will be a gaping hole in the european union's budget immediately and even if there is a deal the uncertainty will continue until such time as britain stops paying its budget contributions and when it does then either the german taxpayer has to cough up more or the polish subsidy receiver has to receive yes it has received less i think brics it will go ahead whether it's hard or soft ultimately doesn't make a difference to the to the eventual outcome. which i repeat is that the european union will follow the fate of the soviet union britain is bigger than the baltic states but it's the same principle ok here i don't have john's optimist i'm about bricks ok but one thing john laughlin is writing it we have him play as usual this is the subtext of this program the law of unintended consequences these fools in

power do not understand what they're doing here all right gentlemen i'm going to jump in here we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion discussion on some real news stay with. seemed wrong. why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to see how this day comes after. and in detroit because the trail. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

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welcome back across the uk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing some real names. ok now i have the pleasure to bring in exactly a paris he's the founder of the center of political strategic analysis poll or an exam v.a. . it's talk about foreign policy in the new year we have trump deciding to pull out of syria as we speak lowering the troop troop numbers in afghanistan how is the european union looking at this because they have been followers since trump has been in power they have are obviously had a negative view of him is this the beginning of something here and what are the chances and what are the chances of the e.u. getting better relations with russia once britain the u.k.

is out of the european union go ahead. so there is a who or which was believed from the french secret service recommending to the president whom to work try to be a more realistic and who are going to fight against terrorism weezer iran and we syria and the reason with russia so maybe there is a chance but i'm a little bit concerned because. there is some people some advantage to x and we want to continue to support the curate but what we can do. with all of the u.s. forces it's impossible to get we can do anything it's all over and you know i'm afraid because a lot of you know we know minister for enough french for he was a minister of defense during the french like russian against syria i'm afraid it's the. best in our best honor of her arms on this question that he wants to go to the end because of the socialist government can't. except. the

old the money time old use all that there are is the help doing to us the costs of you isn't it one how does it change the equation here because. it's completely destabilizes things right that it's a good thing that the us is is withdrawing its occupation forces but the vacuum that that creates there was never going to be a good outcome of that it was in order for it to resolve it's going to have to play through you've got a cross on leaving at least a thousand french forces in east syria and the u.k. has an undisclosed number that is probably about the same and they are going to be trapped in the middle of such a complicated conflict kurds versus sunni tribes an insurgency against each other remnants of vices turkish and there's jihadi proxies moving in to target the kurds

the syrian army russia iran and hezbollah racing in to help syria retake back its country the u.s. probably doing stay behind operations with special forces an air strikes and these poor french and british troops are going to be like human trip wires trapped in the middle of this i think we can forget the israelis of course which just attacked syria again on christmas on christmas so they're going to be trapped in the middle of all of this they're going to start looking like swiss cheese and it's interesting because more reason to hate donald trump and the human well i think that what savia just told us basically a shoal of so that all they get that they're the states is bad on the you is somehow on to bad the influence and that's why it's me behaving this fear is completely and correct you know. ideological of them want to. ethnically determined

table to see a look at what's going on trump announced at last you know something along the lines of he is electoral campaign he is putting out of syria who were the first to be enraged the europeans you know immediately the french minister said we are live in the you know this country poor country to its own devices the driven minister was enraged that these specific so you don't think the united states in the european union have been given enough help to the syrian people i think they already know all these years they have given so much help that they will have to a poor dry side until their third millenium i think what they did to specially the french with their colonial history in ca they ever also are basically i want to go i want to go back to. i asked you my original question what are the prospects of better relations between the european union in russian this year. you know i'm

quite serious because if you look at what happens in germany because actually in your opinion germany is a mostly bottom country. that america doesn't want to change is being she just accept threw into it because it's not a choice for the german industry but if you look up to. you in germany she's worse than a. two point zero two point zero again yes and if you're getting friends which is a. who are in your opinion i don't see any sign of wanting to do some seeing a more effective anyway the question is whether we. deserve sanctions which doesn't work actually it works for russia but it was against us ok and saud the point is when we would go out from the same sions and i don't see any positive signs. from germany and france that's. it was

to do decide to go out and just mention ok exactly a page you very much for joining us and happy and have a very happy new year thank you are you going to what are the prospects here i mean is it going to be more of the same here because we know that the same sions in the united states it's a congressional decision here but the europeans it's on a rolling six month basis here do you think that with the change of late with the u.k. leaving you a new leadership in germany anything is going to change or is there going to be still the pressure from washington there is going to be pressure from washington it may not be coming from the president's office but we know that the president doesn't have complete control of the state foreign policy and so on he may be trying to regain control of some aspects of it but i think the you has their own neo ideologues exceptionalism at this point and they will continue the war against

russia in all spheres economic military and so on regardless of trump and. you know we have to expect that the political crisis in the u.s. with the number of. grand jury indictment this is exactly where we want to go here i want to bring in alexandra christopher he's a nap and he's the director and writer for the duran dot com alex marc was just talking about. the investigations going on that started in two thousand and seventeen eighteen now we're going in two thousand and nineteen the moeller report what's it going to say what's your gut tell you it's going to say nothing there's nothing about police nothing about truck grosser collusion that's for sure it's not good at that i think that's pretty much been accepted and they're not trying to

move the narrative towards a different direction. so i think the mohler desiccation is going to be one giant but i think the media peter i think you know by now the media are still invested in this narrative that does find a way to connect trump somehow to wiki leaks wiki leaks to russia and somehow see that there was some kind of funny business going on and kind of legitimize. what they're trying to do this friends back in his board to do this. you know the him it's really interesting is that you eventually previously the crisis of journalism when you know these lou carvings and we have this is german. right and still there's no self reflection by these people whatsoever you know they're always the exception but my sense is they're more the rule they just got caught. or why should they have so reflection if the new york times i guess has just walked puts a price for its russian medlin investigation so what investigating something that

was asked not exist and that's the children described by remote you know poor children born by you know when their parents send and even into a get seen on the american in their dreams according to his report so basically what we see with our commission is this situation when people are basically forced to testify against themselves that was the case with which you know that was thinking with flynn basically that was the case with them under ford and the technology is very simple kate we accuse you all could do it in with the russia they had me bring you into this situation or when you will face fifteen years in prison you know usually accuse them of any of that nor is no accusation the illusion will testify against yourself that you. were involved in corrupt dealings with the ukrainian government or that you. didn't ask illegal foreign agents

or that you did not. the vice president of the united states had talked to a russian investor that with fleet so people are basically forced to testify against themselves because they'll turn and you know if you're going to jail for fifty you go back to alexander. in athens you know i think it's well accepted here that obviously democrats and liberals hate the president there are plenty of never trumpeters in the republican party in of course almost to the person in the media bar a few individuals on fox they all hate donald trump so why doesn't trump after the report comes out after these indictments come out that trump does turns around and pardons them all what does he have to loose. well i think whatever move trump makes whether it be part of said whether he does it is just going to come down on him hard whether it's the republicans the rhinos whether it's the democrats and most importantly that it's higher mainstream media establishment like you said peter

barr bar one or two people on fox everyone is against any decision he makes they're going to come down hard the one thing that we learned peter in all of this is that a deep state does indeed exist yet we're learning that the russians spent four thousand seven hundred dollars in google ads which supposedly overthrew the entire us democracy while a tyrant of a crisis don't i would correct out there russians not necessarily the already such and such as you said ok they are wrecked russians russians a troll a troll form a troll factory in st petersburg which nobody is and what are you talking about arkady we're not talking about the wanted alabama. to how are you going to try to get all over the world and also what in macedonia that was that's doing some stuff i just we also learned that the f.b.i. had it in for a truck before he got elected and after he got elected and we also learned most importantly the biggest coverup of them all peter is that hillary clinton did rig the primaries against dirty sanders that's something no one to say i'm going to

jump in here if any one of you guys ever run for president make sure you have the macedonia ends on your side yes they can make that difference here that i have to go out for all the while we have you many thanks to my guests here in moscow in france and in greece and thanks to our viewers for watching us here r.t. see you next time remember.

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