america first rhetorical bottle it so it was woodrow wilson masquerading as pat buchanan i think will he or his speechwriter was trying to give the impression this is what mr trump promised in two thousand and sixteen what he's really giving us is what has been destroying america in the world for the last thirty years where we get to be the sovereign over the entire planet and tell everybody else to do but we don't we don't actually look out for our own narrow national interests i mean we can send troops illegally to syria but we can't send them to our own border to defend that good point daniel it's universal is ation of american long because i mean we have this situation with a chinese national that was detained in canada who. we the chinese company here as we're sitting down here i read that a former canadian diplomat has been detained in china so now the the game begins here i don't understand how you know you know

a lot or lose them makes america stronger it seems to me the new isolating itself more and more from the world yeah i gotta agree with that is the paradox is that the pompei o is making a bid for unilateral ism. precisely at the moment when u.s. foreign policy is falling apart. the us foreign policy is in disarray and afghanistan syria saudi arabia where the u.s. has a real disaster on its hands with mohamed bin salomon and the ukraine where where sensually put in has smartly. wrapped america's knuckles over the current strait so america is actually doing very poorly but as its performance declines the rhetoric seems to soar so now it's his talking about imposing american decked out on the entire world. makes no sense it's actually quite laughable. you know one well looking at pale speech the first thing that came

to my mind is well what happens if other countries disagree with this unilateral ism what happens when china says no russia says no iran's says no even you says no i mean pompei you didn't seem to really address that just assuming that everyone is going to agree to american unilateralist and i thought it was a very bizarre speech go ahead and madrid. well i don't think that he was speaking in absolute terms or if you know a lot told him back to you know a lot of those whom he i think he tried to calm european allies. down here he tried to calm us here because obviously the new all poli sci from a u.s. president is different from the rest at least since world war two so basically instead of having the liberal wardour of their employees as usual which has been in my opinion and journal widely beneficial for the wall in general terms even though

we can find exceptions charges we have. instead of following the same procedure so the other precedents. i was trying to say is that yes we have a person who has to shawnee and tradition who wants to forget about their walled on the work he's very much interested in he's going to be very rough but the warri all his talk about nato it's because we're going to try to keep in place these legal war there we're going to keep in place pax americana but we're just going to try to come vine combine it with america first and i think that combination i agree with in the end up part which i also think it's impossible or very difficult to mix and that's a reason why. europeans here in germany just basically were not very enthusiastic about. question was going to happen well they pull out on they go back to unilateralism well i think the rest of the country the rest of the already see that so. we're just getting into

a more sane than usual because we go back to before world war two where and we had unilateralism bilateral deals retreat from america from the world. basically gold bar going back to instead of multilateralism on collective security concepts well going back to yeah we were telling us ok if we're going back to before the first second world war well what happened what brought about the second world war i think you know history tells us a lot of things there jim it seems to me that you know pompei a wants to live in a world where the united states determines the geopolitical interests of just about everyone and to determine what countries what kind of friendships other countries can have with other countries ok for example the relationship that. iran has with syria that's boden in the pompei o world but i mean there are two sovereign countries they decide to cooperate i mean that's how we've settled see international law i worry that international law itself is going to be dispensed

with and you'll just have an american you universalize dictate of what what it's legal and what isn't legal and of course it'll be legal to the advantage of one country go ahead jim. well i would i would agree with everything you said except for the very last part of the advantage of one country i don't think it's to the advantage of the i if it's at all ok the present us i don't i agree cletus the perception that it would be to their advantage go ahead good point going to challenge him that's right the worst of the quest for global domination and that's what really amounts to. this will ended war peter this is this is something that is extremely dangerous a one part of mr pompei oestrus speech really struck me when he talked about sovereignty for ourselves and for our friend france but that means i guess we have the unilateral right to say what other countries sovereignty should be a bridge not because they violated any internationally agreed upon or binding rule but because we say so towards we we have

a situation where we're not only one of the players on the international stage we also get to be the referee of the umpire and if need be the executioner and this cannot end well peter that we cannot continue to divide the world into satellites and vassals on the one side and enemies on the other side especially when we're lining up with not only iran but but but russia and china as potential enemies remember there was a recent report by a congressionally mandated commission saying that not only might there be a war with russia or china we could lose that war this the unthinkable for thirty years forty years during the old cold war has now become thinkable because of this mindset you know daniel going back to my pump a i mean and looking you know he's been on the rise a bit on the job that i guess nine months he's been on the job right now he's probably the most undiplomatic secretary of state the united states has ever had i mean he did he never talks about diplomacy and he's sick he hates awkward questions

. it is at odds with his vision which i'm i'm not particularly sure i understand it completely because it doesn't make any sense logically but i mean diplomacy is a. the secretary of state's strong card is it not not a law i mean the this administration thoroughly rejects diplomacy and shape war more whatsoever but the the important thing is that the us foreign policy is doing very poorly. the us is struggling on multiple fronts it's just overstretched. these of the china and. russia no it's completely isolated on iran except for saudi arabia and israel no one's lining up behind the us policy there so america is proclaiming its. global sovereignty at a time when its power is increasingly in trouble. speaking as

a european do you think that washington should dictate european security energy security policy like demanding that europeans not buy russian natural gas. well i think those comments some time ago we. were very inappropriate because always really we. kind of think of a law that the u.s. president would get into those kind of issues. that kind of thing was not a problem to any other former u.s. presidents but having said that it is so think it will show as strange for him to say that. it seems to me that it could be a little bit of politics here on there he's always on campaign he has these russian collusion thing behind on there might be something obviously there's a lot of information out there so he might be plain a little bit. that he's being tough rougher than ever. yeah but i think it's

it's also if he wants the europeans by american natural gas through l.n.g. are you 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 on pax americana state with art. hello my name's peter and i've been living in bushnell for about seven years and this is a film about just some of the crazy things i've got. time. let me just published or. i still does not.

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welcome back across not where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing pax americana. let me go back to jimmy in washington jim you said in a previous comment that that it was the us would pursue its own interest and its the american allies that were aligned with the american interest but as i mentioned at the end of the first part of the program the energy policy there is beginning to be a big divergence and if the europeans don't fall in line they're going to be punished

ok when. a look at the sanction warnings about buying a rainy in energy a lot of they were a lot of countries that got dispensations but not really the europeans i mean donald trump because i'm for the complete break up of nato and a new security architecture for europe i think it's way overdue but you know donald trump with this rhetoric coming from his secretary of state well that's hastening it just bringing it closer to fruition which i'm actually quite happy about go ahead jim. well let me let me throw a little curveball here peter is that the suggestion has been made that donald trump is really playing four dimensional chess here by putting all these these neo cons in his administration he is deliberately breaking down all of the things that bind us to these other countries breaking down the liberal international order of by pretending to uphold it but then failing and doing that i don't buy any of this i must say but some people have this theory look when the president of france said oh we want to have our own european army which is

a silly idea because europe really doesn't have any external security threats you think of america first president say hey great little macro that's great you have your army we'll get out and they did see around you have fun over there instead he threaten its stead he threatens him now maybe you know some people look at the pulling out of the i.m.f. agreement this this as you say printing them over energy security maybe at some point the europeans grow a pair and say we've had enough and breakaway and would accomplish just what you would you were talking about i don't see that happening that i think one of the problems is is the european leaders are so weak so worthless so willing to be dictated to that there's no limit to how much they will actually crawl one washington barks you know daniel it doesn't in a way the more that the trumpet administration bullies and i think it's an appropriate word bullies its european allies the more that and the. more

instability that we see thinking of france right now this is the usual two two years of nonsense called brags that i mean this should give a lot of europeans ponce about maybe trying to read to go their own way much more so i mean the united states it's either our way or the highway maybe they will start reconsidering some of their policies and i'm obviously thinking about russia at this point we of course have these machinations going on in ukraine which unfortunately the trumpet ministration is continues to support go ahead daniel. well i think that james though is correct and i think the the europeans are in such disarray as well these days they're just too weak to to oppose trump trump is weak also but the europeans for the moment seem to be even weaker so it's a kind of a battle of the weak and it's very hard to establish any kind of broader leadership

in this increasingly. chaotic environment we find ourselves but you know but that said there is no trouble is breaking out all over the place and especially the iranian situation and then syria and israel and saudi arabia is increasingly dangerous. but also the u.s. seems intent on pouring oil on the fire you know men well you know rand was just mentioned right here. in new britain a book about pax americana i mean i can i understood the post cold war i'm sorry post world war two order that was created by the united states i understand the intent behind it in the context of the cold war but after the cold war and the rise of this kind of neal. neo con ideology i mean a sane person wouldn't say focus all of american foreign policy on iran i mean there are that's obviously politics going on there and also if you look at some of

the issues that the the u.s. is intruding upon it on the korean peninsula i mean the koreans are actually making some progress moving towards peace there but the u.s. is dragging its feet and it is planning its seemingly so planning a war against iran how is that possibly in the interest of anyone including americans. well it's very difficult to understand that's why something say that the only explanation possible is that some people in the administration are very. much influenced by people to have. an outlook which is very far away from the western outlook which is very dualistic money and it comes from say a very dualistic view of the world which has some apocalyptic connotations some of the advice from some even might compare himself he's thinking that if things go to war it's ok because in the middle east there's going to something is going to

happen called armor gate um and everything is going to be fine off the so if we mess the whole thing up and nothing is going to happen i from going to explain that you're quite plausible because otherwise you wouldn't understand what happened with bush on iraq in two thousand and three and some other pressure and i mean i mean it's a total opposite to what barker obama or even bill clinton and even george howell but walker bush who died recently how to do with i mean it's a. it's open to the western values onto the western outlook and it has absolute nonsense but the theme use in order to understanding i think you have to put yourself in his shoes and his feet and understand that they have a very different outlook that has to do with we have to do with prophecies in the future and it's very interesting you know jim it seems to me daniel is already mentioned on this program is that on on so many different levels and dimensions american foreign policy is very chaotic right now there's no rhyme or reason to it that i can see but one thing i think pompei though in his are responding to is the

you know polar moment is either already over or it's rapidly coming to an end and i think that that explains this this sudden reaction you know with all these posture reports about picking enemies preparing for a conflict at all because the you know polar moment was supposed to last forever it was the new radiant future you know it is come to it's coming to a close and the u.s. is lashing out because it feels that it's monic the moment is. evaporating before its eyes go ahead jim you mean you mean the thousand year unit polar moment is going to last that long and look i gree with that here and i think part of the problem is that we're not looking at a pre world war two situation we're looking at a pre world war one situation that the invalid states insists and when i say united states i mean this really bad foreign policy team that mr trump has assembled if

they insist on trying to perpetuate a uni polar moment global hegemony that is visibly failing instead of coming to terms with the other rising powers probably russia and china to maybe some extent with india to come up with a stable concert of powers understood sewers of influence where we don't clash and we stay out of each other's business we stayed out of each other's face unless that happens relatively soon something very very bad is going to happen i think right now the top contender for that is ukraine where mr poroshenko is because of his his dismal reelection bid is is staging the provocations like he did in the current strait he's going after churches and monasteries and ukraine which is going to result in violence and i think russia may have to respond things are going to get very ugly fairly soon we don't know where or how unless somehow we pull back from trying to maintain a a global dominance the simply cannot be continued you know daniel and i look at all

of us here on this program here and we're in the same generation ok we were all brought up you know being aware of the possibility of war the cold war there were we had the cuban missile crisis for example and you know it seems to me that the policymakers now are are not as wary as war is they should be i mean now there's a new a new killer document doctrine where conceiving of making small nukes for a battlefield i remember in the one nine hundred eighty s. that was scoffed at is. total madness and now we've gone back to it it seems like these these people in power don't understand that how close we can come to a complex because you know from living here in russia russia will do everything everything to protect that sovereignty and it's made that clear to everyone but that's that's heard on deaf ears by people like mike pompei o and john bolton go

ahead daniel. i agree totally i mean the abrogation of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty as is very dangerous i mean the u.s. is walking away from some very important. nuclear arms accords that were hammered out in the last years of the of the cold war and now it's just cast them aside this is a this is amazingly irresponsible amazingly reckless but the u.s. is doing it then and it's almost impossible to imagine what the repercussions will be but it's important to bear in mind that the the old the old pax americana one point zero is forming a part trump has no idea what to replace it with because he's just crazy. but there's the oh he's reasserting us. unilateralists i'm at a time when the chaos is increasing in the us actually has diminishing power. and i

think it's very important point. what one one country which is pushing these preparing things to the breaking point and that's israel i mean israel is the major force in washington it's very influential in washington as we all know and it is the country which is pushing for a rupture with the with iran and pushing for action against bashar al assad and syria and essentially. israel is the one country on earth that america can't can't say no to so so israel is kind of calling the shots and israel's confrontation with with iran is deepening and that's that seen that conflict seems to be honest and you know it is it is and the other complicated i could stay with you we only have a few more seconds of you add to that i'm agreeing with you one more layer and the now open alliance that riyadh house would tell of eve and they are like minded in

their objectives to. confront iran. yes but that but but the the riyadh regime is falling apart before our very eyes i mean that that regime is in a in an advanced state of crisis i don't know what will what will replace the next in the next year or so but our m.p.'s can't stand power and the al saud are themselves falling apart so what's going to happen in saudi arabia the u.s. is relying on saudi arabia but it's the most it's a good chance a very bad slowdown lies in the region we've run out of time gentlemen many thanks my guests and want you to new york and in madrid and thanks to our viewers for watching us here r.t. see you next time and remember.

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